单词 | church grith |
释义 | church grithn. Anglo-Saxon Law. Now historical. Security, peace, or protection guaranteed within a church or its precincts; the right of sanctuary. Cf. grith n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] church grithOE to-flighta1300 reseta1325 refutec1350 succourc1380 warranta1400 refugec1405 bieldingc1440 bield?a1500 society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > [noun] > peace in church precincts church grithOE OE Laws of Edgar (Corpus Cambr.) ii. v. §3. 200 Stande ælc ciricgrið swa swa hit betst stod. OE Laws: Norðhymbra Preosta Lagu (Corpus Cambr.) xix. 381 Gif man ciricgrið abrece, bete be circan mæðe & be þam þe hire mund sy. OE Wulfstan Institutes of Polity (Corpus Cambr. 201) 140 Riht is, þæt ælc cirice sy on Godes griðe..; and þæt ciricgrið stande æghwar binnon wagum and gehalgodes cyninges handgrið efen unwæmme. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 90 Ȝe beoð i ierusalem, ȝe beoð iflohe to chirche grið. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11138 He hæhte ælcne mon chireche-grið [c1300 Otho cherch-griþ] halden. 1883 Law Mag. & Rev. 34 423 In Scotland, the privilege of sanctuary or grith (the church grith of our own old laws) seems to have been a more inviolable impediment to penal justice than it was even in England. 1895 E. L. Cutts Dict. Church of Eng. (ed. 3) 541/1 There are many notices of church-grith..in the Anglo-Saxon laws and canons. 1920 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. Oct. 658 In the Anglo-Saxon code of laws the violation of Church grith is counted twice as serious as the breaking of the king's peace. 1992 Crime & Justice 15 402 There were other griths as well, for example, ‘church-grith’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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