encomiendan.

/ɛnkəʊmɪˈɛndə/

Etymology: Spanish, = commission, charge, noun corresponding to the verb encomendar to commit, charge; compare medieval Latin phrase in commendam (see commendam n.).

Historical.

An estate granted to a Spaniard in America, with powers to exact taxation and corvée from the Indian inhabitants; such authority; a system derived from such authority.

ΚΠ

1810 Eclectic Rev. VI. ii. 1065 The systematic slavery of the encomiendas having been annulled by Charles III.

1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 174/1 That system of repartimientos or encomiendas which was afterwards to work such cruel mischief among the conquered.

1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 677/2 ‘Encomiendas’, or grants of estates on which the inhabitants were bound to pay tribute and give personal service to the grantee.

1964 M. Harris Patterns of Race in Americas ii. 18 In the highlands..the dominant form of labour appropriation..was known as the encomienda... A man who had performed service..in the conquest of the new territories was rewarded with the privilege of collecting tribute and drafting labor among a stated group of Indians... Cortes..received an encomienda consisting of twenty-two townships.

Derivatives

encomenˈdero n. the holder of an encomienda.

ΚΠ

1818 Docs. Congr. U.S. For. Rel. (Stanf.) (1834) IV. 325 All these regulations were found ineffectual to secure the Indians against the rapacity of the encomenderos, and encomiendas were abolished.

1952 L. M. E. Bertrand & C. Petrie Hist. Spain (ed. 2) xxiii. 198 The encomenderos, to whom territories and whole populations of Indians were granted on the condition of feeding them and instructing them in the Christian faith—these colonists declared that there was nothing to be done with the Indians.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2018).

单词	encomienda
释义	encomiendan. /ɛnkəʊmɪˈɛndə/ Etymology: Spanish, = commission, charge, noun corresponding to the verb encomendar to commit, charge; compare medieval Latin phrase in commendam (see commendam n.). Historical. An estate granted to a Spaniard in America, with powers to exact taxation and corvée from the Indian inhabitants; such authority; a system derived from such authority. ΚΠ 1810 Eclectic Rev. VI. ii. 1065 The systematic slavery of the encomiendas having been annulled by Charles III. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 174/1 That system of repartimientos or encomiendas which was afterwards to work such cruel mischief among the conquered. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 677/2 ‘Encomiendas’, or grants of estates on which the inhabitants were bound to pay tribute and give personal service to the grantee. 1964 M. Harris Patterns of Race in Americas ii. 18 In the highlands..the dominant form of labour appropriation..was known as the encomienda... A man who had performed service..in the conquest of the new territories was rewarded with the privilege of collecting tribute and drafting labor among a stated group of Indians... Cortes..received an encomienda consisting of twenty-two townships. Derivatives encomenˈdero n. the holder of an encomienda. ΚΠ 1818 Docs. Congr. U.S. For. Rel. (Stanf.) (1834) IV. 325 All these regulations were found ineffectual to secure the Indians against the rapacity of the encomenderos, and encomiendas were abolished. 1952 L. M. E. Bertrand & C. Petrie Hist. Spain (ed. 2) xxiii. 198 The encomenderos, to whom territories and whole populations of Indians were granted on the condition of feeding them and instructing them in the Christian faith—these colonists declared that there was nothing to be done with the Indians. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1810
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