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单词 frithburgher
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frithburghern.

Etymology: Interpreted as < frith n.2 + burgher n.; but perhaps originally connected with frithborh n.
Obsolete local.
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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > jury > [noun] > local
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1769 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 7) III. 151 If the Offence was committed..within the Bounds of the Forest, then there were Frithbourgers also to judge of the Fact, who were to be summoned out of the Forestholders, as they are called, who were to hold of that Frith, that is of the Forest.
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 145 This officer summoned a jury of frith-burghers to try him.
1863 R. Chambers Bk. of Days I. 728/2 The Lord Bailiff..issued his summons..to choose four ‘Frith burghers’..to act as jurymen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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