burgageとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 burgage, from Old French bourgage and Medieval Latin burgāgium; equivalent to burg +‎ -age.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈbɝɡɪd͡ʒ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbɜːɡɪd͡ʒ/

名詞

burgage (countable and uncountable, plural burgages)

1. (historical) A medieval tenure in socage under which property in England and Scotland was held under the king or a lord of a town, and was maintained for a yearly rent or for rendering an inferior service (not knight's service) such as watching and warding.
   • 1907, Antiquities of Sunderland and Its Vicinity - Volumes 5-7, page 73:

     If any burgess be appealed of a plea whereon wager of battle may issue by a villein or outdweller , let him defend himself by oath, that is to say by the 36 men, unless he is challenged in respect of a crime that the law requires him to defend by battle, in no case ought a burgess to fight against a villein if he have challenged him unless before the dispute he shall have quitted the burgage.

   • 1914, “Lonsdale Hundred (North of the Sands)”, in William Farrer, J. Brownbill, editors, Victoria History of the County of Lancaster‎, volume 8, Constable and Company, page 39:

     Thomas Singleton, bailiff of the escheatery of the town of Lancaster, rendered account in 1441 of £8 4s. 7d. due from ancient rents and various burgages and plats of land which had escheated to the king as duke from various causes.

語源

Borrowed from Old French bourgage and Medieval Latin burgāgium; equivalent to Old French bourg +‎ -age.

発音

• IPA: /burˈɡaːd͡ʒ(ə)/

名詞

burgage (plural burgages)

1. Land held under a feudal ruler (often in exchange for a rent alone)
2. (rare) The tenure that such land is held under; burgage.
3. (rare) A fortified town entitled to certain rights; a borough.

派生した語

• English: burgage

参照

• “burgāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.