单词 | prochain |
释义 | † prochainn.adj. Obsolete. A. n. rare. A relative, a kinsman. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > [noun] > close relative nigha1382 necessaryc1384 bloodc1400 germane1490 prochain?1529 cousin brother1847 cousin sister1881 ?1529 Wyse Chylde & Emp. Adrian sig. iij That they heden than leue to loue theyr prochyns and nereste of blode. B. adj. 1. Neighbouring, nearest, next. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [adjective] > nearest nexteOE nextfoldc1225 prochainc1550 hithermost1565 next hand1642 hitherest1876 c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) 3 Godefroid of billon..deffendit, his..subiectis of loran, fra his prochane enemeis that lyis contigue about his cuntre. 1555 Inst. Gentleman I ij As wel against our prochane and nere enemis, as also in foren wars. 1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 116 All the prochaine ground We rifled, and toth' siege brought what we found. 2. prochain avoidance: the power to appoint a minister to a church when next it becomes vacant. ΚΠ a1661 B. Walton Treat. Concerning Payment Tythes in London in S. Brewster Collectanea Ecclesiastica (1752) i. 214 Now by Goods at the Common Law are not meant Leases for Years, Wardship, Prochain Avoidance. 1694 W. B. Heath's Maxims & Rules of Pleading v. 138 An Incumbent that pleadeth a Grant of Prochein Avoidance to his Patron, because he claimeth only the Incumbency and not the Patronage. 1744 G. Jacob New Law-dict. Prochein Avoidance, is nothing but a power to present a minister to a church when it shall become void: As where one one hath presented a clerk to a church, and then grants the next avoidance to another. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.adj.?1529 |
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