单词 | englishry |
释义 | Englishryn. 1. a. That part of the population in Ireland that is of English descent, regarded collectively. Cf. Irishry n. 1. Chiefly with the. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Germanic people > ethnically English people > [noun] Englishry1439 Anglo-Saxony1818 Anglo-Saxondom1845 1439 in F. B. Bickley Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 163 (MED) [He is] no rebel of Irlond nor alyene, but of the Englyschrye, and liege man to the Kyng oure sovereyne lorde. 1495 in Statutes at Large Parl. Ireland (1765) I. 51 [To] stirre Irishery or Englishry to make warre against our soverain lord the Kings authority. c1600 J. Dymmok Treat. Ireland (1842) 6 Such good lawes as tende to the preservation of the Englishrye. 1787 F. Hargrave Coll. Tracts Relative to Law of Eng. I. p. xxiv After violent struggles and various revolutions, the Englishry and Irishry, in the reign of our James the first, became consolidated into one people. 1792 E. Burke Let. to H. Langrishe in Wks. (1842) I. 552 The popery laws..as applied between Englishry and Irishry. 1835 Times 18 Dec. 3/2 The late and former letters and acts of Mr. Daniel O'Connell must be deemed to have for their object stirring up the Irishry against the Englishry. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §8. 434 The..English law..made treasonable any marriage of the Englishry with persons of Irish blood. 1919 Times 4 Nov. 36/1 The Statutes of Kilkenny..weakly allowed the colonists to divide the island into two zones and decree that the Irish outside the ‘land of the Englishry’ might neither marry, inherit, nor plead at law with the Anglo-Irish. 1997 Archit. Hist. 40 11 Both the French-speaking Norman families and Old Englishry were to inter-marry freely with Irish stock. 2005 H. O'Sullivan in C. Brady & J. H. Ohlmeyer Brit. Interventions Early Mod. Irel. iii. 59 Even the Englishry of the loyal shire of Louth had become disenchanted by the behaviour of the new rulers out of England. b. Esp. in south-western Wales: a part of a town or county where the English language is spoken and English customs and legal practices are dominant. Contrasted with Welshry n. 2. Cf. Little England beyond Wales at Little England n. 1b. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > area where English culture is dominant Englishry1603 1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) I. i. iv. 38 This shere is taken to be devided into two partes, that is to the Englishrie, and the welshrye, as shalbe more lardglie declared hereafter. 1796 Hist. Pembrokeshire in Cambrian Reg. 1796 (1799) 2 vi. 77 (heading) The sayde Countrey..is divided into the Englisherie and the Welsherie. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 3) I. v. 310 There was an English and a Welsh town, an Englishry and a Welshry. a1946 J. Clapham Conc. Econ. Hist. Brit. (1949) ii. iv. 88 Another adjustment..can be seen after Edward I's conquest in South Wales and the Marches... In the Welshry men live as they always did:..they owe their lord tribute in money or in food. The Englishry is ‘manorial’. 1987 G. Williams Recovery, Reorientation, & Reformation ii. 37 Most lordships were divided into two parts: the Englishry and the Welshry. The former normally covered the more favoured low-lying areas. 2003 A. D. Carr in S. H. Rigby Compan. to Brit. in Later Middle Ages vii. 127 These [large estates] often came to be known as the Englishry where the custom of the manor rather than native law prevailed... The Englishry was not necessarily a region of English settlement;..the greater part of the population usually continued to be Welsh. c. English people regarded collectively; an English population. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] EngleeOE EnglishOE English-Saxona1387 Anglea1398 Southron1488 England1569 Anglo-Saxon1602 John Bull1748 Johnny Bull?1762 Southronya1795 Bull1825 Englishry1856 1856 N. Brit. Rev. in P. E. Dove Theory of Human Progression ii. 75 The ‘Englishry’..so long trampled down and spurned, are now the most illustrious and the mightiest nation on the globe. 1879 M. Arnold in Lett. 12 Feb. (2001) V. 13 This disaster [sc. the defeat of British forces at Isandhlwana]..will lead to a more thorough subjugation of the Zulus, and to a more speedy extension of the Englishry as far as the climate will let them extend. a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Autobiography (1924) I. 120 The Norman Conqueror came over to divert the Englishry. 1939 A. J. Nock H. George 10 The Englishry who came to look the city over were of the middle class, which had by that time begun to set the tone of British political and social life. 2006 D. N. McCloskey Bourgeois Virtues 305 They were not wild Highlanders, and certainly not Catholics, but lowland Scots of a deist or atheistic bent who had made their peace with Englishry. 2. a. Law. The fact of being an English person. Chiefly in Presentment of Englishry n. successful proof through kin of the deceased that one who had died suddenly was English, in order to escape the fine levied (under the Norman kings) upon the hundred or township for the murder of a ‘Frenchman’ or Norman. See also presentment n. 2. Now historical.Presentment of Englishry and the associated murder fine may predate the Norman Conquest and go back to the reign of Cnut, but there is no direct evidence for this of an earlier date than the 13th-cent. legal treatise Bracton. Presentment of Englishry was abolished in 1340. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > state or fact of being Englishry1607 Englishness1804 Anglicity1823 John Bullishness1895 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Bb 3/1 Englecerie (engleceria) is an old abstract word, signifying nothing else but to be an English man. For example, if a man bee priuily slaine or murthered, he was in old time accompted (Francigena)..vntil Englecerie was proued. 1620 J. Wilkinson Treat. Statutes conc. Coroners & Sherifes (new ed.) 8 By a statute made 14 E. 3. c. 4 the presentment of Englechery was wholly abrogated and annulled. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. xl. 100 This custome lasted long after the Normans time, the Dane being onely changed into the Norman, and was called Englishire. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Englecerie, Englecherie, or Engleschrye..properly signified the Quality of an Englishman. 1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent ii. ix. 275 Before the Presentment of Engleschire was taken. 1847 N. Brit. Rev. 6 16 Without these witnesses his Anglaiserie—or Englishry—as the Normans expressed it, was not sufficiently established, and the hundred had to pay the fine. 1883 E. A. Freeman Some Impressions U.S. iv. 16 All accepted the statement of what I may call their Englishry. 1922 Virginia Law Reg. 8 182 The Hundred could escape liability for the fine only by making presentment of Englishry, that is, by proving that the deceased was an Englishman. 1963 H. G. Richardson & G. O. Sayles Governance Mediaeval Eng. x. 209 The serjeants seem also to have replaced the local justices in receiving the abjuration of confessed felons, to have arrested suspects, inspected bodies before burial, received evidence of Englishry and so forth. 2006 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 18 June 8 Whenever a body was discovered, a heavy fine was levied on the local community unless it could prove that the corpse was English, not Norman—known as the ‘Presumption of Normanry’ and the ‘Presentment of Englishry’. b. = Englishness n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > character of Anglicism1647 John Bullism1791 Englishism1802 Bullism1821 English-hood1842 Englishry1894 1894 Westm. Gaz. 21 Sept. 2/1 Our Englishry is often a shallow veneer. Scratch the Teuton, and you find an O'Shaughnessy. 1924 Year's Work in Eng. Stud. 1923 37 Related..is the fable of the decline and fall of English philology since the mid-nineteenth century, and its loss of Englishry and of appeal to the English. 1940 E. C. Bentley Those Days i. 3 Palmerston's death brought out in Brooks the essential Englishry of that time. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Sept. 543/3 The high romance, the doggedness, the talent for nonsense that are still, to the connoisseur of Englishry, staples of life in this drab, unhygienic island. 1994 A. Roberts Eminent Churchillians (1995) vi. 291 The forelock-tugging was all topped off with a paean to ‘Englishry’ which was intended to be mystical but was instead risible. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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