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villein
(encz) | villein,nevolník n: Zdeněk Brož |
villein
(gcide) | Villain \Vil"lain\, n. [OE. vilein, F. vilain, LL. villanus,
from villa a village, L. villa a farm. See Villa.]
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1. (Feudal Law) One who holds lands by a base, or servile,
tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest
class, a bondman or servant. [In this sense written also
villan, and villein.]
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If any of my ansectors was a tenant, and a servant,
and held his lands as a villain to his lord, his
posterity also must do so, though accidentally they
become noble. --Jer. Taylor.
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Note: Villains were of two sorts; villains regardant, that
is, annexed to the manor (LL. adscripti glebae); and
villains in gross, that is, annexed to the person of
their lord, and transferable from one to another.
--Blackstone.
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2. A baseborn or clownish person; a boor. [R.]
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Pour the blood of the villain in one basin, and the
blood of the gentleman in another, what difference
shall there be proved? --Becon.
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3. A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and
capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel;
a knave; a rascal; a scamp.
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Like a villain with a smiling cheek. --Shak.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix.
--Pope.
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Villein
(gcide) | Villein \Vil"lein\, n. (Feudal Law)
See Villain, 1.
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villein
(wn) | villein
n 1: (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned
by the feudal lord [syn: serf, helot, villein] |
VILLEIN
(bouvier) | VILLEIN, Eng. law. A species of slave during the feudal times.'
2. The feudal villein of the lowest order was unprotected as to
property, and subjected to the post ignoble services; but his circumstances
were very different from the slave of the southern states, for no person
was, in the eye of the law, a villein, except as to his master; in relation
to all other persons he was a freeman. Litt. Ten. s. 189, 190; Hallam's View
of the Middle Ages, vol. i. 122, 124; vol. ii. 199.
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villeinage
(encz) | villeinage,nevolnictví n: Zdeněk Brož |
Villein
(gcide) | Villain \Vil"lain\, n. [OE. vilein, F. vilain, LL. villanus,
from villa a village, L. villa a farm. See Villa.]
[1913 Webster]
1. (Feudal Law) One who holds lands by a base, or servile,
tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest
class, a bondman or servant. [In this sense written also
villan, and villein.]
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If any of my ansectors was a tenant, and a servant,
and held his lands as a villain to his lord, his
posterity also must do so, though accidentally they
become noble. --Jer. Taylor.
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Note: Villains were of two sorts; villains regardant, that
is, annexed to the manor (LL. adscripti glebae); and
villains in gross, that is, annexed to the person of
their lord, and transferable from one to another.
--Blackstone.
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2. A baseborn or clownish person; a boor. [R.]
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Pour the blood of the villain in one basin, and the
blood of the gentleman in another, what difference
shall there be proved? --Becon.
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3. A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and
capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel;
a knave; a rascal; a scamp.
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Like a villain with a smiling cheek. --Shak.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix.
--Pope.
[1913 Webster]Villein \Vil"lein\, n. (Feudal Law)
See Villain, 1.
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villein socage
(gcide) | Socage \Soc"age\, n.[From Soc; cf. LL. socagium.] (O.Eng. Law)
A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate
service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service,
in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be
certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by
fealty and twenty shillings rent. [Written also soccage.]
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Note: Socage is of two kinds; free socage, where the
services are not only certain, but honorable; and
villein socage, where the services, though certain,
are of a baser nature. --Blackstone.
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villeinage
(gcide) | Villanage \Vil"lan*age\ (?; 48), n. [OF. villenage, vilenage.
See Villain.]
1. (Feudal Law) The state of a villain, or serf; base
servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest
services for the lord. [In this sense written also
villenage, and villeinage.]
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I speak even now as if sin were condemned in a
perpetual villanage, never to be manumitted.
--Milton.
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Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the
curious so late as the days of the Stuarts.
--Macaulay.
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2. Baseness; infamy; villainy. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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villeinage
(wn) | villeinage
n 1: the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or
feudal serf [syn: villeinage, villainage]
2: tenure by which a villein held land |
VILLEIN
(bouvier) | VILLEIN, Eng. law. A species of slave during the feudal times.'
2. The feudal villein of the lowest order was unprotected as to
property, and subjected to the post ignoble services; but his circumstances
were very different from the slave of the southern states, for no person
was, in the eye of the law, a villein, except as to his master; in relation
to all other persons he was a freeman. Litt. Ten. s. 189, 190; Hallam's View
of the Middle Ages, vol. i. 122, 124; vol. ii. 199.
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