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单词 heemrad
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Heemradn.

/ˈhiːmrat//ˈheɪmrɑːd/
Forms: Also Heemraad, Heemraat. Plural Heemra(a)den.
Etymology: Dutch, < heem village, home + raad council.
Historical.
A local petty court or council assisting the landdrost in South Africa and also formerly in Holland; also, a member of this council.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > local government body > [noun] > district council > in Holland and South Africa
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1801 J. Barrow Acc. Trav. Interior S. Afr. i. 12 A civil magistrate called a Landrost, who, with his Hemraaden, or a council of country burghers, is vested with powers to regulate the police of his district, [etc.].
1823 W. W. Bird State of Cape of Good Hope in 1822 ii. 23 An Englishman has been rarely called to the office of heemrad.
1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 47/2 Prior to 1827 there existed in the several districts of the colony an institution established by the Dutch called the Board of Landrost and Heemraaden.
1888 Theal in J. P. Fitzpatrick Transvaal (1899) 10 The abolition in 1827 of the courts of landdrost and heemraden.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 19 Dec. 3/2 Lord Caledon, after our second annexation of the Cape, revived an old kind of elected Councils, named Heemraden, for the government of the inland districts.
1970 S. Afr. Panorama Feb. 45/2 In 1682 local administration was set up in the form of four Heemraden.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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