单词 | coshering |
释义 | cosheringn. Ireland. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > feasting > [noun] womb-joyc1300 feastinga1325 messing1340 comessationa1425 cheeringc1443 mangerya1470 epulation1542 junketing1555 coshering1577 coshery1582 collationing1652 potlatching1865 tuck-in1886 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande viii. f. 28/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Their noble men, and noble mens tenauntes now and then make a set feast, which they call, coshering, whereto flocke all theyr retayners, whom they name followers... In their coshering they sit on straw, they are serued on straw. 2. The practice or custom, claimed as a right by Irish chiefs, of quartering themselves upon their dependants or tenants: see coshery n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [noun] > at another's expense sorning1506 cosheringc1571 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > military exactions > [noun] coynye1449 scutagec1460 spear silver1496 conduct-money1512 coat-money1557 bonaght1568 cessc1571 cosheringc1571 cessheryc1575 quartering-money1580 sessa1581 coshery1587 coatc1630 ship-money1636 shipping-money1640 ship-scot1640 conduct1644 trophy money1664 trophy tax1701 watch-mail1710 Saladine tax1728 c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) ii. viii. 111 The Irishe impositions of quinio and lyvery,..cocheringes, bonnaght, and sutche like. 1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 177 Irish exactions..namely, Cosherings, which were visitations and progresses made by the Lord and his followers, among his Tenants: wherein he did eate them..Out of house and home. 1620 T. Ryves Vicar's Plea 1 The lawes are executed in every place alike, cocherings are reduced to chiefe-rents. 1777 T. Campbell Philos. Surv. S. Ireland iv. 44 They were longer oppressed by a feudal government: which gave birth to a custom called coshering. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 130 Sometimes he contrived, in defiance of the law, to live by coshering, that is to say, by quartering himself on the old tenants of his family. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cosheringadj. That ‘coshers’ or lives upon the industry of others. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [adjective] > parasitical or sponging parasiticala1566 smell-feast1566 spongy1602 sharking1608 parasitic1630 sponging1699 coshering1727 scunging1843 freeloading1941 1727 C. Threlkeld Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum C vij Dodder..quits the root, and like a coshering parasite lives upon another's trencher. 1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 45 180 A herd of squandering, coshering, wandering blackguards. 1882 Goldw. Smith in 19th Cent. July 6 Some hereditary despot, the representative of their old coshering chiefs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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