单词 | back-berend |
释义 | † back-berendadj. Obsolete. Bearing on the back: an Old English combination, long retained as a law-term to describe a thief caught in the act of thus carrying off stolen property. Sometimes modernized as back-bearing. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > receiving or possessing stolen goods > [adjective] back-berend1292 1292 Britton i. xxx. §6 Acun laroun ou robbeour seisi de soen larcyn handhabbynde et bacberinde. c1550 J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 37 Theives tane and apprehendit in manifest thift, sic as hand-havand and back-beirand. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 36v Backberind theefe. 1822 Edinb. Rev. 36 295 If the offender could be taken back-bearing. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 109 Our hand-habend, our back-bearand, and our blood-suits. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.1292 |
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