单词 | comburgess |
释义 | comburgessn. Historical. 1. A fellow-burgess, fellow-citizen or freeman of a borough. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > fellow townsman concitizen1428 co-citizen1488 comburgess1517 fellow citizen1550 townsman1562 conscive1578 town's bairn?1591 comburgher1605 townsfolk1614 townschild1621 city mana1661 townsboy1699 town folk1805 townie1824 townsfellow1830 homeboy1861 homie1929 homes1971 1517 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 17 The complaint made..by the Maior and yor comburgesses of yor towne of Oxford. 1565 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 37 Comburgesses and Commonalty. 1585 Rec. in Hist. Dumfries (1873) 208 Tua of the bailies, James Rig their conburges. 1587 F. Thynne Ann. Scotl. 447/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Such magistrates..as neither are comburgesses, nor apt to discharge themselues of such offices. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem (Chalmerl. Air) 148 All and sundrie zour comburgesses [L. omnes comburgenses vestros], dwelling within zour burgh. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xx. 424 The members were generally ‘co-citizens’ or ‘comburgesses’. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > municipal magistrate > [noun] > in English boroughs before 1835 comburgess1646 comburgher1683 1646 R. Butcher Surv. & Antiq. Stamford iv. 9 Edward the 4th..by his Charter directed to George Chapman, the first incorporate Alderman, and others both of the upper and lower Bench, then called the Comburgesses and Capitall-Burgesses. 1696 London Gaz. No. 3175/3 The Association of the Alderman, Burgesses in Parliament, Comburgesses, Gentlemen, Free-Burgesses and other Inhabitants of the Borough of Grantham. 1835 1st Rep. Commissioners Munic. Corporations Eng. & Wales App. iii. 1673 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 116) XXIV. 1 Pontefract, King Richard 3, by a charter..ordains that the Mayor and burgesses..yearly may amongst the same burgesses in the Moot Hall, choose out of themselves 13 Comburgesses..one of which burgesses is to be chosen for the Mayor for one whole year. 1835 1st Rep. Commissioners Munic. Corporations Eng. & Wales App. iv. 2241 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 116) XXV. 1 Grantham, The Comburgesses are elected for life by the Alderman's Court from the second twelve, who alone are eligible. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1517 |
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