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形容詞

burghal (not comparable)

1. (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, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 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, chapter 13, in Castle Gay‎:

     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, chapter 10, in Domesday England, Cambridge University Press, page 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 […]

使用する際の注意点

For England and Wales, the word is historical and corresponds to the medieval borough. For Scotland, it corresponds to the burgh.

派生語

参照

• “burghal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

反意語

• (Scotland) landward

アナグラム

• Bulghar