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单词 black-acre
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black-acrev.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: black acre n.
Etymology: < black acre n., perhaps with allusion to Mrs. Blackacre, a litigious widow, or her lawyer son, Jerry, in William Wycherley's play Plain Dealer (1677).Compare the following earlier use of Jerry Blackacre in sense ‘lawyer’:1699 E. Ward London Spy I. viii. 10 From thence we mov'd towards the upper end of the Hall, thro' such a crowd of Jerry Black-acres, that we were shov'd about like a couple of Owles, falln into a great company of Rooks and Jackdaws.
colloquial. Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. To litigate about landed property.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > go to law or litigate [verb (intransitive)] > litigate about land
black-acre1751
1751 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 67 She is now gone to town, black-acreing, to her lawyers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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