单词 | duchy |
释义 | duchyn. a. The territory ruled by a duke or duchess. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [noun] > of duke or duchess duchy1382 duchery?a1400 dukedom1460 dukery1855 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Neh. v. 18 The ȝeris frutis of my duchie [L. annonas ducatus mei] I soȝte not. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iv. 245 A kyngdome oþer duche May nat be sold soþly. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) i. 7 He holdeth..of the reme of Roussye a gret partie, where-of he hath made a Duchee. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 291 The French king should clerely geue vnto him all the Duchy of Guyan... And that king Edward..should freely holde and occupie the sayde Duchie. 1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 105 The Pope hath the cittie of Rome..the Dutchie of Spolet. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 4 The dutchy of Carniola. 1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity I. iv. 396 Otho..had erected his duchy into a kingdom. b. In Great Britain, applied to the dukedoms of Cornwall and Lancaster (the two earliest in England) vested in the Royal Family, and having certain courts of their own, in which respect they differ from ordinary peerage dukedoms. ΚΠ 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxv. 229 Kyng edward made of the erledome of cornewayle a duchye. 1553 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 26 Writs..shall and may from henceforth be directed..to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. 1645 Sir R. Greenville in Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion (1703) II. ix. 543 The Revenue of the Dutchy of Cornwal. 1703 Act 1 Anne Stat. i. c. 7 §5 Under the..seals of the duchy and county palatine of Lancaster. 1895 Whitaker's Almanack 157 Duchy of Lancaster..Duchy of Cornwall. [With a List of Officers of the two Duchies.] c. A district between London and Westminster forming the precincts of the Duchy House of Lancaster. ΚΠ 1626 Let. 6 Oct. in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) I. 154 St. Clement's parish, the Strand, the Duchy, with the Savoy, have caused a riot. Compounds C1. ΚΠ 1750 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 445 To shew his title to the Dutchy-peerage of Bretagne. C2. Of or relating to the duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster. a. duchy land, duchy manor, duchy tenement (one held of the crown in either of these duchies). ΚΠ 1624 Act 21 Jas. I (c. 25) (title) in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 149 An Act for relief of Patentees, Tenants, and Farmers of Crown-Lands and Dutchy-Lands. 1672 P. Leycester Hist. Antiq. ii. iv The dutchy office at Gray's Inne in London. 1705 London Gaz. No. 4132/4 Exposed to Sale, a Dutchy Tenement..being parcel of the Dutchy Manour of Tremation, and part of the Ancient Dutchy of Cornwall. 1814 D. Lysons & S. Lysons Cornwall vii The tenants of the duchy manors are either free tenants, or conventionary or customary tenants. b. duchy-chamber n. the courtroom at Westminster of the Duchy Court of Lancaster. ΚΠ 1555 Act 2 & 3 Phil. & Mary c. 20 §5 The Fermes Rentes Suytes and services..aunsweryd and paide in the Court of the Duchye Chambre at Westminster. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. iii. vi The court of the duchy chamber of Lancaster is another special jurisdiction. duchy-court n. a court held before the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (see chancellor n. 2d), or his deputy, having equitable jurisdiction over lands holden of the Crown in right of the duchy. ΚΠ 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Aa3b Dutchy court, is a court, wherein all maters appertaining to the Dutchy of Lancaster, are descided [by] the decree of the Chauncelour of that Court. 1653 E. Manlove Liberties & Customes Lead-mines Derby 193 The Dutchie Court (if just cause be) May yield relief against those verdicts three. duchy-house n. the official London residence of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. ΚΠ 1609 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1849) (modernized text) I. 100 The two chancellors of the exchequer and duchy keep residence here in town: of which the last hath been..driven from the duchy house to Lambeth by the plague. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1382 |
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