| 单词 | king's silver |
| 释义 | > as lemmasking's silver king's silver n. now historical (a) (Law) a duty formerly paid to the Crown for the royal licence to levy a fine; = post fine n.; (b) silver blessed by a king and used to make cramp-rings (cramp-ring n. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > mineral medicine > [noun] > medicines prepared from other minerals king's silverc1400 sulphurc1400 cerusec1405 mummy1601 sal-prunella1664 prunella salt1721 antimonial1728 mummia1770 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun] > of levying fines post fine1573 king's silver1617 prefine1625 c1400 Simonie (Peterhouse) (1991) l. 385 Þei byggeþ with þe kynges seluer boþe londes and ledes. 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 35 A rowund ryng of the kynges silvir. 1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas Kings siluer, is properly that money, which is due to the King in the Court of common plees, in respect of a licence there granted to any man for passing a fine. 1794 W. Cruise Ess. Nature of Fines (ed. 3) I. ii. 23 The king's silver, which is sometimes called the post-fine..is an antient revenue of the crown. 1846 Irish Equity Rep. 8 322 Payment of the King's silver..can never be deemed legal evidence of a fine levied. 2001 Local Historian 31 108 There were a variety of documents associated with the process of levying a fine, notably the pre- and post-fines made by the Clerk of the King's Silver. 2001 D. N. Robinson in J. Moriarty Hist. Mental Illness in Criminal Cases I. iv. 37 Cramp-rings, made from the King's silver and gold and blessed by him, were passed around as gifts..in Renaissance England. < as lemmas |
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