单词 | to take grith |
释义 | > as lemmasto take grith 2. spec. in Anglo-Saxon Law. Security, peace, or protection guaranteed under particular limitations of time or place; as church grith n. (Old English ciric-grið), security within the precincts of a church; handgrith n. (Old English hand-grið), protection under the king's hand; after the Old English period used without qualification = church grith n. (occasionally kirkes grith), sanctuary. to take grith: to take sanctuary; hence gen., to take refuge or shelter. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > [noun] > safety or security > guaranteed security > with limits of time or place gritha1000 a1000 Laws Edgar i. §5 Stande ælc cyricgriþ swa swa hit betst stod. c1000 Laws of Æthelred viii. c. 1 in Schmid Gesetze 242 gif æfre ænig man..Godes ciric-grið swa abrece ðæt he binnon ciric-wagum man-slaga weorðe. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 133 Understondeð..þe beoð iflowen to chirche grið for nis ower nan þet nes sumchere. godes þeof. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11138 He hæhte ælcne mon chireche-grið [c1300 Otho cherch-griþ] halden. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 29250 Þe thride þat brekes kirkes grith. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxviii. (1482) 238 A Breton murthred a good wedowe..and after this he toke the grith [1520 gyrthe] of holy chirche. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vii. l. 1047 Thai..To the kyrk rane, wend gyrth for till haiff tayne. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 44 He mysdid yar gretly but wer Yat gave na gyrth to ye awter. 1519 in J. Raine Sanctuarium Dunelmense et Sanctuarium Beverlacense (1837) 86 I aske gyrth for Godsake and Saint Cuthbert's. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xiv. 93 Thai gart pausanias seruitur pas to the tempil to tak gyrtht and protectione as dois ane tresgressour. 1603 J. Stow Suruay of London (new ed.) 310 5. of his fellowship..took him [sc. a souldier prisoner] from the Officer, brought him into sanctuary, at the west dore of S. Martins church, and tooke grithe of that place. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 245 Three or four men..came this morning before day-light to ask the privilege of girth and sanctuary. 1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 178 The Grith that ranked next after that which was given ‘from the king's own hand’ was ‘the grith which the ealderman and king's reeve give in the Assembly of the Five-Burghs’. 1892 Edinb. Rev. July 223 Charles availing himself of the law of grith or sanctuary, went down to Holyrood. < as lemmas |
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