burghal
Adjective
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Adjective
burghal (not comparable)
- (UK) Relating to a burgh or borough.
- 1867, John Guthrie Smith, A Digest of the Law of Scotland Relating to the Poor, the Public Health, and Other Matters Managed by Parochial Boards, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2nd edition, Introduction, p. 2,
- In Scotland, parishes are either burghal, i.e. those comprised wholly within a burgh royal; landward, those forming a rural district; or mixed, i.e. a burgh with a rural district attached.
- 1930, John Buchan, Castle Gay, Chapter 13,
- There is a pleasant smell of cooking about, and a hum of compact and contented life. Add the excitement of an election, and you have that busy burghal hive which is the basis of all human society--a snug little commune intent on its own affairs, a world which for the moment owes allegiance to no other.
- 1986, H. C. Darby, Domesday England, Cambridge University Press, Chapter 10, p. 290,
- It is true that Frome is not called a borough, nor are burgesses recorded for it, but the payment of the ‘third penny’ suggests burghal status […]
- 1867, John Guthrie Smith, A Digest of the Law of Scotland Relating to the Poor, the Public Health, and Other Matters Managed by Parochial Boards, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2nd edition, Introduction, p. 2,
- (Scotland) landward
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