单词 | houselord |
释义 | houselordn. Now rare. 1. The lord or master of the house. archaic and historical in later use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > head of household houselordOE husbandOE lordOE goodmanc1275 husbandmanc1330 master1536 man of the house1539 housemaster1593 major-domo1649 house head1864 old baas1882 OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Exod. (Claud.) xxii. 8 Gyf se hushlaford [L. dominus domus] hit nat, ladie hine. OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xxii. 11 Secgeað þam hushlaforde [L. patri familias], Ure lareow þe segð hwar ys cumena hus. c1225 (?c1200) Sawles Warde (Bodl.) (1938) 2 (MED) Inwið, þe monnes wit, I þis hus is þe huse lauerd. c1450 (c1405) Mum & Sothsegger (BL Add. 41666) (1936) l. 1570 (MED) Til þay haue haled þe howslord oute atte halle-dore. 1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies 112 This power of the Dominus, or House Lord, and of the Domina, or House-Lady, is great. 1886 Polit. Sci. Q. 1 697 As to the extent of the husband and father's powers... at Rome..there were restrictions on the house-lord's power, even in the royal period. 1921 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 51 28 The Nikira-n-roro were chosen promiscuously, for mere beauty, at the lust of the houselord. 1995 U. Vogel in D. Castiglione & L. Sharpe Shifting Boundaries v. 75 [It] blended vestiges of the Germanic mundium (the absolute power of the houselord) with medieval notions of trusteeship. 2. The owner of a rented house; a landlord who lets a house, apartment, etc. ΚΠ 1834 New Monthly Mag. Jan. 63 It is alleged in palliation of these taxes that they do not affect the tenant, but fall upon the landlord—(houselord or capitalist). 1863 Reynold's Newspaper 18 Jan. This [sc. Christmas week] was the time chosen by the landlord or houselord of poor Cornell to turn him, his wife, and six children..into the cold winter rain. 1908 L. G. C. Money Riches & Poverty (ed. 8) xvi. 207 Even in cases where the municipality does not own its own sites, it can in some measure control the greed of the houselord. 2003 Rental Housing (U.N. Human Settlements Programme) ii. 41 In Bangkok, it has been noted that, until recently, ‘houselords’ operated ‘in a business like way’ in certain slums. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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