单词 | shrift-shire |
释义 | > as lemmasshrift-shire shrift-shire n. [representing Old English scriftscír] Historical the district in which a priest exercised his functions. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > confessor > [noun] > district of shrift-shire1838 shrift-district1872 1838 H. Soames Anglo-Saxon Ch. (ed. 2) 262 (note) Right is it that no priest do any of those things that belong to another, either to his minster, or in his shrift-shire. 1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) I. iv. 158 These districts allotted to priests were called priestshires, shriftshires, and kirkshires. < as lemmas |
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