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单词 centgrave
释义

centgraven.

Forms:

α. 1600s–1800s centgrave.

β. 1800s centgraf.

Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German centgraf.
Etymology: < early modern German centgraf (second half of the 14th cent. as centgraff , etc.; German Zentgraf ; < cent (see note) + graf graf n.), in α. forms with remodelling after grave n.4 Compare post-classical Latin centgravius (12th cent.), centumgravius (13th cent.)Early modern German cent (feminine noun) 100 men collectively, hundredal jurisdiction (Middle High German (in late sources) cent , cente , zent ; German (now hist.) Zent ) is < post-classical Latin centa hundredal jurisdiction (13th cent.), apparently ultimately < classical Latin centum hundred: see centum n.2). The Centgraf was the president of the Centgerichte, lit. ‘courts of the hundred’, which administered criminal law in the districts in question. The usual word in Old English is hundredes mann (also hundredes ealdor ); see hundred n. and adj. Compounds 2.
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.
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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).
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