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单词 lay-fee
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lay-feen.

Brit. /ˈleɪfiː/, U.S. /ˈleɪˌfi/
Forms: see lay adj. and n.9 and fee n.2; also Middle English laifeo, Middle English laife, layfe, 1500s laffye.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman lai fe.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
1. A fee or estate in land held in consideration of secular services, as distinguished from an ecclesiastical fee. †Also phrase of lay fee (cf. fee n.2 1b).
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > a feudal holding or fief > secular
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c1290 Beket 560 in S. Eng. Leg. 122 Ȝif ani man of holi churche halt ani-þing of lay-fe [c1300 (Percy Soc.) 556 holdeth eni laifeo]..he schal done þere-fore Þe seruice þat to þe kinge bi-fallez.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 285 ‘Sir’, þe bisshop said, ‘of þis we pray þe, Þat..nouht of our lay fe Be taxed with non of ȝours’.
c1535 Ploughman's Tale iii. sig. C.iv Therwith they purchase hem lay fee In londe, there hem lyketh best.
1553 T. Becon Relikes of Rome (1563) 246 b Al yt..maken holy churche Layfee, yt is halowed and blessed.
1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 148 An Inventory of such Goods and Chattels, as they shall finde in the Lay-fee of the party deceased.
1750 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 283 Arrogating to his own courts the cognisance of lay-fees in the case of persons of the first quality.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. viii. 182 Besides his archbishopric, he held the county of Evreux as a lay fee.
2. The laity, lay people collectively. Originally in of the lay fee. Obsolete.
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society > faith > church government > laity > [noun]
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herdc1000
layc1330
flocka1340
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temporalty1387
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temporalityc1485
laity?1541
lealty1548
people1549
layperson1972
c1425 Found. St. Bartholomew's 19 The peple of boith ordres, the Clergie And the laife.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 136 I wote not that it is worth forto talke in resonyng with eny persoon of the laife vpon eny mater of Goddis lawe.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) xv. 43 For tamende clerkes & layefee.
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) i. sig. Aiijv/2 It suffyceth..to theym whyche ben of the lay fee or state.
1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. B Why iangle you suche iestes..To the people of lay fee.
1536 Exhort. to North. in F. J. Furnivall Ballads from MSS I. 308 The intollerable exactions that longe he dyd vsse the laffye emonges, and also the spiritualtye.
1545 Primer Kynges Maiestie (STC 16034) Injunct. sig. ***.i To..al other of the Clergie: as also all estates and degrees of the laye fee.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 118 A great multitude, of the which the king pardoned a great number of the laye Fee.
1641 W. Prynne Antipathie 79 More of their Tenants went to the Kings warres, then of the Tenants of them of the Lay fee.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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