bailien.

Brit.

/ˈbeɪli/, U.S.

/ˈbeɪli/

Forms: Middle English bailli, baillie, Middle English baili, Middle English–1600s bayly, Middle English bayli, bayely, Middle English baylle, Middle English–1500s bayle, bailye, Middle English–1700s bailly, Middle English bailȝhey, Middle English–1500s baly, Middle English–1600s bayley, 1500s baylay, bailȝie, 1600s baylie, 1600s–1700s baillie, bailey, Middle English–1800s baily, 1500s– bailie.

Etymology: Middle English bailli , < Old French bailli (13th cent.), later form of baillis , baillif , bailiff n.

Another form of the word bailiff n., with which it was formerly interchangeable; now obsolete in England, but retained in a special sense in Scotland.

†1. = bailiff n. 1. Obsolete.

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society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] > bailiff

bailie1297

bailiff1297

Moabite1699

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 129 To þe baylys of þe toun hastiliche heo wende.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9558 He ne had neuer sa gret envie, Als þis man for to be baillie [Gött. bayly].

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5008 Þar vs tok þe hei baili [Fairf. bailly, Gött. bayli, Trin. Cambr. baily].

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 306/1 Mayres, Shereues, baylles, and suche other lasse offyces.

1501 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 159 The baylay of Byngham Vapentake.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxxix Y^e baylly of the Castell of Wyndesore.

1527 S. Gardiner in N. Pocock Rec. Reformation (1870) I. 75 Being advised by the baly of Dover so to do.

?1529 Proper Dyaloge Gentillman & Husbandman sig. C ^v Euery secular lorde..is Goddes baylie.

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 129 Sent to the sherife of Sudsex, to the Maior and communaltie of the Citie of Winchester, to the Baily of Southampton, the Baily [of] Lenne, the Baily of Kent.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Leic. 129 At Ashby De La Zouch..where his Father under the Earl of Huntington, was Governour or Baly of the Town.

humorously.1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew i. sig. C2^v Then up rise Randal, Bayley of the Beggars.

2. In Scotland.

†a. formerly, The chief magistrate of a barony or part of a county, having functions equivalent to those of a sheriff. Obsolete.

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society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] > chief magistrate of part of Scottish county

bailie1425

1425 Acts Jas. I (1597) §63 The Kingis Baillie, or a Depute of the towne.

1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 190 Schyrreffys and bailȝheys maid he yen.

1634–46 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 87 For other civill and criminall jurisdictions, the heretable baillies might supplie that part.

1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. i. iv. 36 Where lands, not erected into a regality, fell into the King's hands, he appointed a Bailie over them, whose jurisdiction was equal to that of a Sheriff.

b. Now, a municipal magistrate corresponding to the English alderman.

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society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > municipal magistrate > [noun] > in Scottish borough

bailie1484

1484 W. Caxton tr. Ordre of Chyualry (1926) iii. 29 Kynges & prynces which make prouostes & baillyes of other persones than of knyȝtes.

1558 Instr. of Sasine in Annals of Hawick 331 In the hands of Adam Cessfurde, ane of ye bailȝies of Hawick.

1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 128 At the first head Court after Michael~mes, the Baillies sould be chosen.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 162 Edinburgh is governed by a lord provost, four baillies.

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. ii. 53 I am a free burgess and a magistrate o' Glasgow; Nicol Jarvie is my name, I am a bailie, be praised for the honour.

†3. = bailiff n. 2. Obsolete (or dialect)

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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > official who executes orders of court > bailiff

beadlec1000

ridemanlOE

cacherela1325

outrider1332

bailiff1377

catchpolea1382

bailiec1386

officer?1387

sheriff's manc1400

attacher1440

messenger1482

tipped staffc1500

servitor1527

bailie-errant1528

processar1534

bum-bailiff1560

tipstaff1570

nut-hook1600

saffo1607

servera1612

bailiff-errant1612

bum-bailey1615

process servera1616

buckle-bosom1622

bumbee1653

exploiter1653

moar1656

bum1659

bummer1675

bumbail1696

bulldog1699

sheriff's officer1703

bum-trap1749

bound-bailiff1768

shelly-coata1774

body snatcher1778

lurcher1785

fool-finder1796

messenger1801

bugaboo1809

borough-bailiff1812

sheriff mair1812

speciality1815

grab1823

legalist1835

candy man1863

writter1882

sheriff1928

c1386 G. Chaucer Friar's Tale 92 ‘Artow than a bayely?’ ‘Ye,’ quod he.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 12914 As baily [Vesp. bedel] goþ bifore Iustise.

1460 Townley Myst. 17 A mekille myschaunce And the bayles us take.

?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors vii. sig. C1^v Euery man is a bayly to attache a felon.

c1600 J. Norden Speculum Brit. (1728) Cornw. 73 A libertye when the Shirifes Baylye can not areste.

1668 T. Shadwell Sullen Lovers iii. 48 Worse then a Bayley that arrests in the Inns of Court. [In Scotland, constables specially employed in carrying out the Tweed Fisheries' Acts are called Water-bailies.]

figurative.1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia iii. 148 Natures palefac'd Bayly now destraines His blood.

†4. = bailiff n. 3. Obsolete.

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society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > steward or bailiff in charge of another's property

town-reeveeOE

reeveeOE

gravec1175

procuratorc1300

dispender1340

provost1340

bailiec1375

officerc1375

dispenserc1380

proctora1382

dispensator1382

farmerc1384

approverc1386

husbanda1387

stewardc1405

chamberlain1423

procurer1477

factor1520

bailiff1528

land-steward1535

improver1536

grieve1537

amtman1582

administrator1596

stead-man1609

dapifer1636

vogt1694

house jobber1709

commissioner1760

foreman1774

house agent1793

ground-officer1815

land-agent1846

wic-reeve1853

steadward1876

house farmer1882

house-knacker1884

land-sergeant1894

c1375 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. (1869) I. 24 Þis bailly [Luke xvi. 1] was worldly wyse.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 41/3 That Eleazar the sone of my baily be myn heyr.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xliii Yf thou haue any wood to sell..cause thy baylie..to do it for the.

1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law ii. 45 A bailie is he to whom a speciall charge of procuring a mans profite, and the valuable increase of his wealth is committed.

1661 S. Pepys Diary 19 July (1970) II. 136 Agreeing with Stankes to have a care of our business in our absence..to be our bayly.

1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia ii. i. 28 A very pretty fellow, for a Gentlemans Baily.

1735 J. Swift Panegyrick on D— in Wks. II. 287 You merit new Employments daily: Our Thatcher, Ditcher, Gard'ner, Baily.

5. bailie-errant n. = bailiff-errant: see bailiff n. Compounds 1.

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