| 单词 | birth brief |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbirth brief birth brief n. Scottish (now historical) a document attesting to a person's identity and genealogy, typically issued when travelling abroad. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > genealogy as study > [noun] > genealogical record > tree, diagram, etc. tree1297 pedigreec1425 Jesse1463 kindred's tree1605 birth brief1662 family tree1752 pedigree-stick1893 stemma1904 1662 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1908) 3rd Ser. I. 252 The Lords grant warrant as craved for the passing of the said birth-brief. 1888 W. Fraser Memorials Family Wemyss I. p. xlii For the benefit of his Italian kinsmen, the Earl of Wemyss obtained a birth-brief under the great seal of King Charles the Second, in which the descent from the Earls of Fife is affirmed in a general way. 2012 P. P. Bajer Scots in Polish-Lithuanian Commonw., 16th–18th Cent. i. 30 Birth briefs were granted by a town baillie (bailiff) to individuals, natives of a particular municipality and/or district, who had travelled out of the shire or abroad. < as lemmas |
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