leigerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

leiger (plural leigers)

1. Obsolete form of ledger.
   • 1850, Edward Wedlake Brayley, “The Hundred of Godley, or Chertsey”, in A Topographical History of Surrey, volume II, London: G. Willis, […], →OCLC, page 177:

     John de Rutherwyke was chosen abbot in 1307. In the Landsdowne Library is a Leiger-book of the abbey of Chertsey, containing a regular account of the affairs of the monastery under his presidency, from the time of his election till within two years of his death, which took place in 1346. In the Exchequer Leiger the abbot is styled "a most religious Father, and a most prudent and most profitable Lord;" […]

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名詞

leiger (plural leigers)

1. Alternative form of lieger
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 71, column 2:

     Why,
     As all comforts are : moſt good, moſt good indeede,
     Lord Angelo hauing affaires to heauen
     Intends you for his ſwift Ambaſſador,
     VVhere you ſhall be an euerlaſting Leiger ;
     Therefore your beſt appointment make with ſpeed, To Morrovv you ſet on

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