单词 | to create a borough |
释义 | > as lemmasto create a borough a. A town possessing a municipal corporation and special privileges conferred by royal charter (hence the sovereign is said to create a borough). Also a town which sends representatives to parliament. (A municipal borough often differs in territorial extent from the parliamentary borough of the same name.) The word is commonly restricted to towns which do not possess the more dignified title of city n. For the Scottish uses, see burgh n.Early examples are necessarily not distinct in sense from the preceding. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > constituency > type of borough1512 close borough1771 pocket borough1783 borough-constituency1868 index constituency1888 Euro-constituency1957 supermarginal1960 marginal1966 c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 283 Be it castel, burgh, outher Cite. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xiv. ii. 691 Þe erþe is yhiȝte with so many grete citees and bowrys [1495 de Worde borughes].] 1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII xi The Bourgh of Lymyngton with thappurtenaunces. 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xiiii The auncyent townes called borughes the moost auncyent and eldest townes that be within Englande. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1276/1 To this man King Henrie the third..did grant that his towne of Wigan should be a burrow. 1652 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 134. 2083 A list of the Burroughs that have since assented to the Union. 1718 Free-thinker No. 67. 2 Your Counties and your Burroughs do not send you into Parliament. 1738 Hist. View Court of Exchequer ii. 20 Several of the Demesne Lands were given to Burroughs. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xiii. 381 Edward VI. created fourteen boroughs. 1845 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. 357 A ‘borough’ is properly a town or city represented in parliament, although the term has occasionally (as in the Municipal Corporation Act) a wider signification. < as lemmas |
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