Sunday, April 3, 2016

Vocabulary

Vocabulary for Magna Carta

  • Archbishop: The chief bishop responsible for an archdiocese.
  • Bishops: A senior member of the Christian clergy, typically in charge of a diocese and empowered to confer holy orders.
  • Abbots: A man who is the head of an abbey of monks.
  • Earls: A British nobleman ranking above a viscount and below a marquess
  • Barons: A member of the lowest order of the British nobility. 
  • Justiciaries: The administration of justice.
  • Foresters: A person in charge of a forest or skilled in planting, managing, or caring for trees.
  • Stewards: A person who looks after the passengers on a ship, aircraft, or train and brings them meals.
  • Bailiffs: A person who performs certain actions under legal authority, in particular.
  • Liege Subjects: Loyal subject of the monarch.
  • Wardship: the state of being under a guardian.
  • Disparagement: Speaking in a disrespectful way
  • Indemnified: Compensate someone for harm or loss
  • Distrained: Seize someone in order to make them pay
  • Wapentake: A subdivision of certain northern and midland English counties, corresponding to a hundred in other countries.
  • Postponement: Delay
  • Intestate: Not having made a will before one dies.
  • Chattels: Personal possession
  • Lieu: Instead
  • Fief: An estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service.
  • Kydell: Obsolete
  • Tenement: A piece of land held by an owner.
  • Socage: A feudal tenure of land involving payment of rent or other nonmilitary service to superior
  • Burgage: Tenure of land in town held in return for service or annual rent
  • Escheat: The reversion of property to the state, or to a lord, on the owner's dying without legal heirs.
  • Disafforsted: Limiting privileges of forests to ordinary land.
  • Hitherto: Until now
  • Perchance: Perhaps
  • Ordain: Make a priest or minister, confer holy orders on
http://www.yourdictionary.com/liege
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/disparagement
http://www.yourdictionary.com/kydell
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disafforest
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