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deˈcenary improp. deˈcennary, a. and n.
[ad. med.L. decēnārius (decennārius), f. med.L. decēna (decenna) a tithing: see decener.]
A. adj. Of of pertaining to a decēna or tithing.
1752Fielding Causes Incr. Robbers §5 (R.) To prevent idle persons wandering from place to place..was one great point of the decennary constitution.
B. n. = med.L. decēna, a tithing: see quot. 1881.
Apparently taken by the 17th c. antiquaries as formed on decenner decener + -y, and so accepted by later writers.
[c1250Bracton iii. ii. x, Diligenter erit inquirendum si [latro] fuerit in franco plegio et decenna, et tunc erit decenna in misericordia coram justitiarios nostros. ]1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. xlviii. (1739) 84 View of free Pledges must be, to see that the Decennaries be full. c1670Hobbes Dial. Com. Laws 201 The whole Land was divided into Hundreds, and those again into Decennaries. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 114 No man was suffered to abide in England above forty days, unless he were enrolled in some tithing or decennary. 1881T. S. Frampton Hundred of Wrotham 36 All males..should..be enrolled in a tithing, or decennary, which originally consisted of ten free families. [Cf.1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. 66 He was registered in the decenna before he reached adolescence.] |