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baronage|ˈbærənɪdʒ|
Forms: 3–6 barnage, 4 barunage, barunnage, 6 barnag, barronage, 4– baronage.
[ME. barnage, a. OF. barnage, bernage:—L. type *bārōnāticum, f. barōn-em, but actually latinized in Middle Ages barnagium, baronagium, whence baronage and mod.F. baronnage.]
1. The body of barons collectively; the great vassals of the Crown; the nobles, lords, peerage.
a1300Floriz & Bl. 639 After his barnage he haþ isend. a1300Cursor M. 4649 Al þat barunage, less and mare. Ibid. 8016 Bath to þe and to þi barnage. c1400Rom. Rose 5815 The baronage to councel went. c1420Chron. Vilod. 269 With all hurre faderes holle barnage. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 86 All oure barnage into bandone brocht. 1589Warner Alb. Eng. v. xxv. (1597) 123 Ciuill warres betwixt the King and Barronage. 1649Selden Laws of Eng. i. lviii. (1739) 109 The Judges in this Court were the Baronage of England. 1738Hist. Crt. Excheq. i. 5 The greatest Part of the Baronage was summoned to Parliament. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 317 That authority which had belonged to the baronage of England ever since the foundation of the monarchy. 1876Green Short Hist. ii. §4 (1882) 71 The most turbulent baronage in Christendom.
b. fig. applied to: The angels.
1340Ayenb. 58 Beuore god and al þe baronage of heuene.
c. ellipt. A list of the barons; a book containing such a list with historical and other particulars; a ‘Peerage.’
†2. The domain of a baron; a barony. Obs.
1475Bk. Noblesse (1860) 55 The governaunce of..a roiaume, dukedom, erledom, barnage, or seignourie. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. cii. 84 The saxons helden the Countees, baronages, lordshippes..in maner as the britons byfore tyme had compaced hem.
3. The dignity or rank of a baron.
1614Selden Titles Hon. (1614) 290 All Dignities aboue Baron is included in the Baronage. 1642W. Bird Mag. Hon. 94 The dignity of Baronage unto them descended by women.
†4. The relation of a baron to his lord superior; homage. Obs.
1671F. Philipps Reg. Necess. 436 By the Bond of his homage or Baronage to do all things as his Baron..to be his Liege-man, and more extraordinary Subject.
†5. (see quot.) Obs.
1678Phillips, Baronage, a Tax, or Subsidy of Aid, to be levied for the King out the Precincts of Baronies. |