单词 | crown land |
释义 | Crown landn. 1. Land belonging to the Crown, especially the British Crown, of which the revenue belongs to the reigning sovereign; (now also) land belonging to the state in some Commonwealth countries, common or public land. Also: an estate or tract of land belonging to the Crown or the state (usually in plural). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land belonging to crown Crown land1591 1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth xii. f. 36v The Vochin or Crowne lande conteyneth in it 36. townes with the territories or hundreds belonging vnto them. a1614 W. Cope Apol. R. Cecil in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. x. 122 Custody Lands, anciently termed the Crown Lands, answered in the Pipe. 1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 97 Our Crown-lands lye above. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 5 Selling the Crown-Lands, creating Peers for money. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) III. vii. 171 By their stated labour the crown-lands were cultivated. 1814 in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1916) 1st Ser. VIII. 329 The Intentions of Government to raise a Revenue from the Crown Lands. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. App. 563 The estates of the dissolved houses had become crown-land. 1919 Otago Daily Times (N.Z.) 1 Nov. 8 The provision..for granting areas of Crown lands to landless South Island natives..is revived. 1960 National Assembly Official Rep. (Republic of Kenya) 11 May 482 People moved there a long time ago, probably some time before it became a Crown land. 1977 H. O'Hagan Woman who got on at Jasper Station & Other Stories 81 The cabin, being built on Crown land, was there for anyone to use it. 2000 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide II. i. 10/1 This greatest of all public debates takes place between Australia's indigenous people and their supporters against pastoralists, lease holders of Crown land and mining companies. 2. Frequently in form crownland. Any of the administrative provinces of the Austrian Empire or (1867–1919) most of their successors in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > area over which jurisdiction exercised land and ledeOE regimenta1393 franchisea1400 right?a1400 obeisance1419 liberty?1435 English palec1453 palec1453 English palea1549 judgement1617 command1621 commandment1632 bourne1818 Crown land1849 rulership1882 overseas territory1900 1849 Fraser's Mag. Aug. 223/1 The present expedition [into Hungary]..has a wider range, than..the subjugation of an Austrian crown land. 1850 Times 19 Jan. 6/3 A fifth provincial Constitution, that for the little Crownland of Carniola, has now appeared. 1871 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Mar. 1/2 The opposition of the national parties in the several crownlands..was not to be conjured away by the introduction of any bill. 1918 Christian Sci. Monitor 11 Nov. 5/1 Galicia is a crownland of Austria-Hungary north of the Carpathians. 1960 C. A. Macartney in J. P. T. Bury New Cambr. Mod. Hist. (1964) X. xx. 537 The Croats were thoroughly disgruntled at finding..Croatia merely a Crownland—under centralized rule and administered, no less than Hungary, by non-natives. 2001 C. L. Zugger Forgotten iii. xxiii. 337 Bukovina had been a crown land in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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