英语词汇“burgess、ship”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

burgess-ship

释义

burgess-ship|ˈbɜːdʒɪsʃɪp|
[see -ship.]
1. The status and privileges of a burgess; the ‘freedom’ of a borough, citizenship.
1467Eng. Gilds 390 That no prentice haue his freedom of Burgesshippe.1580North Plutarch 971 To some [of the Towns] he gave the right of Burgesship of Rome.1662Pepys Diary 30 Apr., The Mayor and burgesses did desire my acceptance of a burgess-ship.1752Carte Hist. Eng. III. 333 A right of burgessship in that place.1873Morley Rousseau I. 9 The position of burgess-ship.
b. fig. a rendering of πολίτευµα in Phil. iii. 20.
1612R. Carpenter Soules Sent. 91 Your Burgeship is in heauen.1656Trapp Comm. Phil. iii. 20 Our civil conversation, or our burgess-ship, while we live by heaven's laws.
†2. ? The position of ‘burgess’ or member of parliament for a borough. Obs.
1673Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Wks. (1705) II. 71 In the Election of his Lordship to the same Burgesship before.1695in Sir J. Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 261 A vacancy was then here in the said Burgesship.

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