单词 | inforest |
释义 | inforestv. rare after 17th cent. (now chiefly historical). transitive. To convert (land) into forest or royal hunting-ground. Cf. afforest v. ΚΠ a1619 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 128 All such as were found to haue beene inforrested since the first Coronation of Henry the Second to bee disafforested. 1627 J. Speed Eng. Abridged vi. §7 Thirtie miles of circuit inforrested for his game of Hunting. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Mddx. 177 Henry the Eight enforrested the grounds hereabouts. 1848 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 23 Sept. 193/1 The enforesting of lands formerly useful seems like taking a step back to the earliest ages of mankind.] 1923 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 31 366 It was Justus Moeser who first pointed out that Charlemagne inforested the forests in the bishopric of Osnabrück ‘cum collaudatione potentium istius regionis’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1619 |
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