单词 | corporate town |
释义 | > as lemmascorporate town corporate town n. (also town corporate) now historical a town possessing a municipal corporation, an incorporated town. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > borough burrows-townc1175 mayor-town1375 boroughc1380 borough-town1382 burghc1425 corporate town1478 royal burgh1591 county borough1708 municipality1790 Royal Borough1805 county1888 1478 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1478 §27. m. 5 And if it happen in cite, burgh or toune corporat, then afore the maire..or other chief governour there. 1574 T. Tymme tr. J. de Serres Three Partes Comm. Ciuill Warres Fraunce iii. vi. 263 To be free also from making an accompt of such money as he hath taken out of Cities, or corporat Townes. 1606 R. Bowyer Diary 3 Dec. in Parl. Diary (1931) 200 No Scottish man should be made Bayliff etc. of any Towne Corporate or Citty. 1765 Maryland Gaz. 1 Aug. The Colonies..are in the very same Situation as the Inhabitants of Leeds, Halifax, Birmingham, Manchester, and several other corporate Towns. 1825 J. R. McCulloch Princ. Polit. Econ. i. 33 The citizens of corporate towns. 1986 Financial Times 12 Apr. (Weekend Suppl.) xii/1 Southwold in the north, made a town corporate by Henry VII, is elegant, charming, a model of what one would wish every British coastal town to be. 2008 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 June 31/1 Miller addresses these themes through the study of developments in the larger English corporate towns, between the Restoration and the general election of 1722. < as lemmas |
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