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municipality|mjuːnɪsɪˈpælɪtɪ|
[a. F. municipalité, f. municipal: see municipal.]
1. A town, city, or district possessed of privileges of local self-government, also applied to its inhabitants collectively.
Somewhat rare exc. with reference to foreign countries (as France or Italy) where the word is the regular name of an administrative unit. ‘In New Orleans, a district of the city corresponding to a ward’ (Webster 1847).
1790Burke Fr. Rev. Sel. Wks. II. 143 The municipalities had taken an alarm. 1841Lewis On Govt. Dependencies 71 note, A body of public functionaries may preside for certain purposes over a district (as a county, department, municipality, or borough). 1865Maffei Brigand Life II. 47 In the municipality of Bisaccia..the only boys' school was a miserable place which hardly deserved the name.
2. The governing body of a town or district having municipal institutions (usually, the Mayor and Corporation).
1795Hel. M. Williams Lett. on France I. 170 (Jod.) We afterwards obtained our liberty by means of the municipality to whom we were unknown. 1800Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1834) I. 262 They might for a time be under the inspection of the municipality (to use a French phrase). 1836Alison Hist. Europe xlii. §8 (1849–50) VII. 91 To the great disappointment of the municipality and people. 1885Pall Mall G. 18 Nov. 4/2 If the new municipality provide these, then the supply of the inferior water of the companies may be purchased if desired.
3. A municipium.
a1805Murphy Sallust (1807) 196 If by your authority you oblige the municipalities to receive the prisoners. 1872E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 237 The Municipality, from uniting the advantages of self-government with the privileges of citizenship, became the most favoured form of colony.
4. Government on municipal principles; municipal institutions.
187.E. A. Freeman in L. Stephen Lett. J. R. Green (1902) 214 Here [in Italy] was municipality on its grandest scale. |