单词 | yeresyeve |
释义 | † yeresyeven. Obsolete. A gift customarily given or exacted at the New Year, or at the beginning of a year of office. ΘΠ the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > gift at Christmas or New Year > gift at New Year yeresyeve1194 New Year's gifta1400 hogmanay1443 yeresgift1545 1194 Charter Richard I in A. Clarke & F. Holbrooke Rymer & Sanderson's Fœdera (1816) I. i. 52/2 Concessimus, quod sint quieti de bridtol, & de childwite, & de ȝieresȝieve. 1201 Charter Cambr. in Rot. Chart. (1837) 83/2 Quod omnes burgenses de Cantebruge sint quieti de jherscheve et de scothale. 1231 Charter Roll, 15 Henry III (P.R.O.: C 53/25) m. 10 xxti solidos qui dari consueuerunt singulis annis constabular. Bristoll. de terra..de Manegodesfeld nomine Iaresiue. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xi. 34 Wolde neuer kyng ne kniht ne Canoun of Seynt poules Ȝeuen hem to heore ȝeres-ȝiue þe value of a grote! 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. iii. 99 Hem þat desireth Ȝiftes or ȝeresȝyues [MS. R. (14..) ȝereȝiftes] bi-cause of here offices. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. viii. 52 He ȝaf þe to ȝeresȝyue to ȝeme wel þi-selue. c1460 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) 548 Ȝereseffe, encennium. 1723 W. Bohun Privilegia Londini (ed. 3) 35 Jeresgive, is a Toll or Fine, taken by the King's Officers, on a Person's entring into an Office; or rather, a..Bribe, given to them to connive at Extortion, or other Offence in him that gives it.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1194 |
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