单词 | skevinage |
释义 | † skevinagen. Obsolete. A district under the jurisdiction of a local magistrate. In English use only with reference to the precincts of Calais. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > territory under a governor or official > [noun] > under a magistrate > at Calais skevinage1449 1449 Rolls of Parl. V. 149/2 Withoute the Towne, in the Procincte longing to the same, called the Skevinage. 1487 Rolls of Parl. VI. 404/2 Th' Office of Baillyve of the Scunage of Calais. 1529 in J. S. Brewer Lett. & Papers Reign Henry VIII (1876) (modernized text) IV. iii. 2392 A house place..within the scunage of Calais. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1449 |
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