单词 | reasonable alms |
释义 | > as lemmasreasonable alms ΚΠ ?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 125/1 Reasonable Alms was a certain portion of the estates of intestate persons, allotted to the poor. 1829 R. Thomson Hist. Ess. Magna Charta 210 As..sudden deaths might frequently cause intestates, the Bishops..received power to make such a distribution from the goods of the deceased as he himself was bound to do, under the term of Eleemosyna rationabilia, or reasonable alms. 1834 T. A. Trollope Encycl. Ecclesiastica I. 63 Reasonable alms..are a certain portion of the estates of such persons as die intestate allotted to the poor. < as lemmas |
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