单词 | possessioner |
释义 | possessionern. 1. A person who possesses something; an owner, a proprietor; a holder, an occupier. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] havereOE holderc1350 possessionerc1384 mastera1393 possessorc1425 possessiantc1540 possident1610 havea1739 tenanter1798 have-got1897 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds iv. 34 How many euere weren possescioners [a1425 L.V. v.r. possessiouneris; L. possessores], or weelders, of feeldis or howsis. c1425 Prose Versions New Test.: Deeds (Cambr.) (1904) iv. 34 (MED) Als many possessioners as þer wore of houses or of feldes solden hem. 1440 in Hull Bench Bk. 3 f. 23 (MED) It is ordeyned..that no possessioner ne fermor of any hous..shall kepe nor receyve withyn his hous any Wolles or wolle felles..that shall amont or excede a sak weght. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 89 (MED) They called before them the lordis and possessioners and tenauntis of the mylles. 1563 Bonner in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. xxxiv. 341 Not being lawful Bishop of Winchester, but an usurper, intruder, and unlawful possessioner thereof. 1578 M. Tyler tr. D. Ortúñez de Calahorra Mirrour Princely Deedes sig. A.iiij But to retourn whatsomeuer the truth is, whether that women may not at al discourse in learning, for men lay in their claim to be sole possessioners of knowledge. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) i. 26 They were a kinde of people, who hauing beene of olde, freemen and possessioners, the Lacedæmonians had conquered them, and layd, not onely tribute, but bondage vpon them. 1657 F. Roberts Mysterium & Medulla Bibliorum iii. vi. 1205 As a rich possessioner holds a Manner in libero soccagio, in free soccage, but yet he must perform to such a Court, or he must pay a pound of Pepper, A Red-Rose in Rose-time, &c. as a chief Rent. 1689 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum (ed. 2) xl. 299 The Owners or Possessioners thereof. 1807 J. Britton Beauties Eng. IX. Lincs. 571 The sum of 1000l. borrowed of the king, lords, and great possessioners, till it could be levied by the commissioners of sewers. 1884 Q. Rev. Jan. 107 The grasping spirit of the new lords and possessioners. 1925 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 19 729 The same indomitable will, when enlisted by supposed interest upon the side of the possessioner party, will make a man a believer in ‘thorough’ as a policy. 2. spec. A member of a religious order having temporal possessions or endowments; an endowed clergyman or ecclesiastic. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > [noun] > one who possesses possessioner1395 incumbent1425 pensioner1500 possessionarya1533 pensionary1536 pension1544 beneficer1621 beneficiary1641 society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > monastic rule > order observing particular rule > member of particular order religionc1325 possessioner1395 regular1443 possessionarya1533 eremite1587 Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 88 (MED) Religiouse possessioneris, as munkis and chanons, shulden lyue a poue lif, symple and in reste. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. v. 144 (MED) Þise possessioneres preche and depraue freres. 1461 Rolls of Parl. V. 491/1 All Grauntes..of any Benefice, Dignite, Chirch, Prebende, Hospitall, or Chapell be of such force..duryng the lyves of the seid persone or persones beyng Incumbentis, Possessioners, or Occupiers in the same. 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) iv. vi. 167/2 Yf he be a relygyous possessyoner endewed by temporal goodes, he may releue them. a1500 in H. A. Person Cambr. Middle Eng. Lyrics (1953) 46 Yf I be possessioner I haf noo such grawnt ffor I muste lyffe in cloystre wheder I wyl or noo. ?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xxiv. sig. H2v But the son of man hath not where to rest his head. Soch possessionars were the bysshops of the prymatyue church. a1605 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Stowe (2)) 17914 Frerys..haven lyberte to beggen..sythe they be no processionerys [read pocessionerys]. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiii. vi. 125 It was the villains demanding manumission from their lords, not Wycliffe's disciples despoiling possessioners. 1943 Cambr. Hist. Jrnl. 7 156 Monks took considerable part in the domestic controversies of the late fourteenth century, in particular those between the mendicant and possessioner religious. 1997 B. Lowe Imagining Peace iv. 105 Hereford took up Wyclif's recent attacks when he denounced the greed for material goods exhibited by the whole of the clergy, possessioners and friars alike—all to the detriment of the poor commons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1384 |
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