单词 | squirehood |
释义 | squirehoodn. 1. The position or status of a squire or esquire; squireship. Also used as a title. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > squire or laird > state of being a squire squireship1614 squiredom1650 squirehooda1680 squirism1819 squirearchy1854 squiralty1888 a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 91 To which Purpose he brings his Squirehood and Groom to vouch. 1721 J. Swift Lett. King at Arms in Wks. (1841) II. 70/2 If this should be the test of squirehood, it will go hard with a great number of my fraternity. 1801 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1802) 5 376 The rage of Squire-hood is now so universal, that one of my humble race, a simple Gent, is hardly to be met with in his Majesty's dominions! 1818 W. Scott Chivalry in Encycl. Brit.: Suppl. to 4th–6th Eds. III. i. 130/2 The sumptuary laws of squirehood were not particularly attended to. 2. The body of squires; the squirearchy. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > squire or laird > body of squires squirality1760 squirehood1792 squirearchy1796 squiredom1842 1792 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 438 In the governing people, the old false principles were quite worn out. In the squire~hood, the pretence of them..still existed. 1831 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Jan. 4 Neither the squirehood nor the priesthood can persuade anybody to prop open his gates, that the pigs may run into his potato-field. 1850 W. P. Scargill Eng. Sketch-bk. 6 Both these gentlemen had their intimacies among the squirehoods of their respective neighbourhoods. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1680 |
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