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单词 cantred
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cantredn.

Forms: Middle English candrede, Middle English candred, Middle English–1600s cantrede, 1500s–1800s cantred.
Etymology: apparently an adaptation of cantref n., assimilated to the English hundred.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcantred.
Historical.
a. A hundred; a district containing a hundred townships.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > administrative divisions in Britain > hundred
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. Rolls Ser. 343 A candrede is a contray þat conteyneþ an hondred townes.
1480 W. Caxton Descr. Brit. 20 Hundred and candred is all one.
1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 34 Preamble Cantredes, comotes, hundredes..to the seid Castelles..belongyng.
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 2v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Meeth conteineth but xvj. cantaredes [1587 cantreds].
1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xix. i. 312 Essex hath in time past wholie beene forrest ground, except one cantred or hundred.
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. vii 60 Two Knights Fees make a Cantred.
1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. To Rdr. The Shires diuisions into Lathes, Hundreds, Wapentakes, and Cantreds.
1747 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. I. 640 The city of Wexford and the two adjoining Cantreds.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) I. iv. 63 The cantred of Howel dha may answer to the hundred of Edgar.
b. transferred. Obsolete.
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1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 139 That this..is evenly dealt out amongst the sundry Clubs and Cantreds of bodies.
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