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lackland, n. and a.|ˈlæklænd|
[f. lack v.1 + land n.1]
A. n. One who has no landed possessions; one who rules over no territory.
B. adj. Of persons: Having no land.
Used by mod. historians as a rendering of L. Sine Terra (c 1196 Will. Novoburg. Hist. ii. xviii.), AF. Sanz tere (c 1367 Eulog. Hist. v. cxii.), the designation of King John. Trevisa tr. Higden's Polychron. vii. xxxii. calls him ‘Iohn wiþ oute londes’; Grafton and Stowe ‘Without land’.
1594Greene Looking Glass Wks. (Grosart) XIV. 40 How cheere you, gentleman? you crie ‘no lands’ too; the Judge hath made you a knight for a gentleman, hath dubd you sir John Lack-land. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. 255 Iohn surnamed Sine terra, that is, Without Land [marg. Or nick⁓named Iohn Lack-land]. 1622Rowlands Good Newes & Bad 12 What remedy gainst Fortunes raging fits, But liue like other lackelands, by my wits? 1646Buck Rich. III, i. 6 Sobriquets..Sansterre, Lackland. 1762Hume Hist. Eng. I. ix. 330 John who inherited no territory..was thence commonly denominated Lackland. 1820[see lack-stock s.v. lack v.1 7]. 1839Penny Cycl. XIII. 126 John, King of England, surnamed Sansterre or Lackland, a common appellation of younger sons, whose age prevented them from holding fiefs. 1881Spectator 22 Jan. 120 Whatever the lacklands of the League may say to the contrary. 1887Pall Mall G. 21 July 3/2 If they voted for the lackland lawyer they would in the winter starve. 1899Cardl. Vaughan in Westm. Gaz. 29 Aug. 2/3 The transference..of the great commons of England to the rich created a lackland and beggared poor. |