| 单词 | king's purse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasking's purse king's purse n. now historical the royal treasury; the funds or revenue of a king. ΚΠ a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 34 Infisco, put into kyngis purse. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxiii All her charges within the realme, comminge to the courte & returnynge, were of the kynges pursse. 1651 Life & Reigne King Charls 28 What by sales procured by her solicitations, as much more was yearly drayned out of the Kings purse. 1809 Cobbett's Compl. Coll. State Trials III. 1191/1 Nothing must come to the king's purse, nor to the king's coffer, but it must be for the defence of the kingdom. 1905 W. H. P. Greswell Forest & Deer Parks Somerset xiii. 207 Montibus..held a manor by the serjeanty of training one brachet (hunting-dog),..receiving a halfpenny a day from the king's purse. 2009 16th Cent. Jrnl. 40 618 Crown officials methodically confiscated the ‘strangers' consulage’ for themselves (and the king's purse). < as lemmas |
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