α. 1600s–1800s centgrave.
β. 1800s centgraf.
单词 | centgrave |
释义 | † centgraven.α. 1600s–1800s centgrave. β. 1800s centgraf. Obsolete. (a) Anglo-Saxon History. An officer or bailiff in charge of a hundred; = hundreder n. 1. (b) Germanic History. An official responsible for judicial administration within a district known as a Zent. Cf. centenary n. 4(a).Although this term originates in the name of a judicial official recorded in medieval sources as existing in continental Europe, it is recorded earliest in English applied to the chief officer of the hundred in the Anglo-Saxon administrative system. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > [noun] > other specific officers of justice exactora1425 marshal1611 centgrave1647 custos rotulorum1683 custos1739 awarder1826 protocol1865 society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] > hundreder hundred-mana1000 hundreder1455 centenary1616 centurion1618 centenier1646 centgrave1647 hundredary1700 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. xxv. 69 One was per eminentiam called the Centgrave or Lord of the Hundred. 1685 R. Brady Compl. Hist. Eng. 68 His Office, or Place of Trust seems to have been the same, or much like that of a Centgrave, or Hundredarie. 1743 G. Reynolds Hist. Ess. Govt. Church of Eng. iii. 27 The Bishop presided with the Alderman in the County, with the Sheriff in the Tourn, with the Centgrave in the Hundred. 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. V. 474 Over which is..a Centgrave whose business it is to look to the criminal jurisdiction. 1832 F. Palgrave Rise & Progress Eng. Commonw. I. iii. 90 They could not proceed to judgment unless in the presence of the Comes or Graphio, and of the Centgrave, the Magistrates of the community. 1839 1st Rep. Commissioners Constabulary Force Eng. & Wales App. 360 King Alfred is said to have added 12 others of the same hundred to assist the centgrave in its government. 1851 Encycl. Americana (new ed.) XII. 92/1 Each soldier received a farm; a judge or centgrave, was set over one hundred of these farms (forming a cent, or hundred); and the place of judgment..was called Mallus. 1885 T. M. Lee Story of Switzerland vii. 151 Over a hundred farms was set a Centgrave, to call and lead them out to battle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1647 |
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