alderman (s.xiii2)

Browse the Dictionary

    Loading...

Search Results

Your search results will appear here.

alderman (s.xiii2)

  FEW:  alderman 2 15/i,12a Gdf: GdfC:  alderman 8,71c TL: DEAF:  alderman  DMF:  alderman  TLF:  alderman  OED:  alderman n.  MED:  alder-man n.  DMLBS:  aldermannus 60a
aldermaune,  aldirman,  aldreman,  aldremanne,  altherman,  auderman,  audreman,  adermain  114
pl. aldermans,  aldermen,  audremantz  i 446  
ls(loanword: M.E. )
le

s.

1statusalderman, official who is a member of the ruling body of a city or borough, etc.
( MS: s.xiii2 )  consul: (D) gallice aldreman  ii 21
( 1300 )  par assent du meire et des aldermans  122
( 1310 )  au meire et as althermans […] de la dite citee  172.14
( 1406-07 )  eux accusant devant Richard de Whityngtoun, adonques meire de Loundres, vicecomptes et aldermans de Loundres  322
( 1418-19 ) Espenses faitz pur defence faire envers les vadletz de lour supplicacioun direct as mair et aldirmans  279 (6 Henry V)
occupationchief officer of a gild
( c.1300 )  qe le alderman seit cheveteyn de la vile et de la gilde en vile  i 60
statusmayor
( 1327 )  grantoms qe chescune manere de taillage fait par le alderman pur profit de la ville seit mys e assis par les burgeys  ii 29
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
alderman