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单词 comburgess
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comburgessn.

/kɒmˈbəːdʒɪs/
Forms: Also 1500s Scottish conburges.
Etymology: < com- prefix + burgess n.1, after medieval Latin comburgensis, or French combourgeois (16th cent. in Littré).
Historical.
1. A fellow-burgess, fellow-citizen or freeman of a borough.
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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’.
2. In certain English boroughs (before the Municipal Reform Act 1835), used as the title of municipal magistrates, chosen by and from among their fellow-burgesses, and associated with the alderman.In some cases, as at Stamford, the Alderman and his Comburgesses received by later charter the style of Mayor and Aldermen.
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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).
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