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ˌpre-ˈconqueror, a.
[pre- B. 2.]
Anterior to (William) the Conqueror. So ˌpre-ˈconquest a., preceding the (Norman) Conquest; ˌpre-conˈquestal, -conˈquestual a. [pre- B. 1] existing in, or belonging to, times preceding the Conquest.
a1878Sir G. G. Scott Lect. Archit. (1879) II. 59 There were pre-conquestal Norman and post-conquestal Saxon buildings. 1880Sat. Rev. 3 Apr. 439/2 The fact of the town having been a pre-conquestal see no more makes the place a city than it makes the parson a dean. 1889Athenæum 10 Aug. 184/1 Dr. Stubbs..sums up strongly in favour of the antiquity of the Leet and its jury, to which he confidently assigns a pre-conquestual origin. 1900Edin. Rev. July 150 A unique collection of preconquest stones. 1901Daily Chron. 15 July 5/1 Royal lineage in our noble and gentle families is common enough:..most of them derive from the Plantagenet, and not from the pre-Conqueror kings. 1922E. Ekwall Place-Names Lancs. 172 The example seems to indicate that Over Wyresdale was in pre-Conquest time common land to the townships round the lower Lune. 1927J. J. Hogan Eng. Lang. in Ireland 27 There is preliminary matter about pre-Conquest Ireland, then Conquest follows with some omissions. 1957K. A. Wittfogel Oriental Despotism iii. 51 In pre-Conquest Mexico the various forms of land and the obligations attached were carefully depicted in codices. 1960S. Cruden Scottish Abbeys 54 To a small pre-Conquest church..there was added on the east a square choir with a rounded apse. 1975‘S. Marlowe’ Cawthorn Jrnls. (1976) xi. 87 The inevitable merging of pre-Conquest and Spanish culture in Mexico. |