单词 | borough-reeve |
释义 | borough-reeven.ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > municipal magistrate > [noun] > chief magistrate or mayor borough-reevec1000 portreeveOE sovereigna1325 mayorc1325 Lord Mayor1414 wick-master1587 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 110 Prætor uel præfectus, uel quæstor, burhgerefa. c1225 Leg. Kath. 1927 Com a burhreve [L. urbis prefectus] as þe þat wes þes deoueles budel. 1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. I. 84 The præfectus, or burh-gerefa, was rather a royal than a civic officer.] b. The chief municipal officer in certain unincorporated English towns, before the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > municipal magistrate > [noun] > chief magistrate or mayor > in certain English towns before 1835 borough-reeve1808 1808 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 325/1 The weavers assembled..near Manchester..Mr. Starkie, the Boroughreeve strove to persuade them to disperse, but in vain. 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. iv. v. 334 The officer of the king, who was called port-reeve or borough-reeve. 1881 J. Morley Life R. Cobden I. 121 He was intolerant of the small politics of the Borough-reeve and the Constables. 1885 Manch. Examiner 20 Mar. 8/4 He filled the office of boroughreeve, or chief magistrate, of Salford in 1839. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1000 |
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