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Definition of Glebe
1. Noun. Plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office.
Definition of Glebe
1. n. A lump; a clod.
Definition of Glebe
1. Noun. Turf; soil; ground; sod. ¹
2. Noun. (historical) In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Glebe
1. the soil or earth [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glebe
Literary usage of Glebe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1793)
"But he may except parcel of the glebe.—So of a manor excepting the ... Note, it
ought to be ancient glebe at the time of the endowment. Mo. 910. Trin. ..."
2. The Scots Digest of Scots Appeals in the House of Lords from 1707 and of the by Robert Candlish Henderson, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1908)
"—Question as to whether lands were church lands, and liable in glebe. ... A glebe
being designed out of church lands, no claim of relief lies against the ..."
3. A hand-book of the law of Scotland by James Lorimer (1873)
"The glebe.—Every minister of a country parish is entitled to a glebe of four
acres of arable land, or sixteen soums of pasturage. ..."
4. The Scots Digest of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and by John Condie Stewart Sandeman (1905)
"glebe — Authority to Feu — New Manse—Site of old Manse part of glebe— glebe Lands
... In a parish where the heritors had built a new manse on the glebe, ..."
5. Styles of Deeds and Instruments: In Accordance with the Titles to Land by John Hendry, John Thompson Mowbray (1878)
"(2) Completion of Title on a Decree of Sale under " The glebe Lands (Scotland)
Act 1866." By the provision of "The glebe Lands (Scotland) Act 1866," section ..."
6. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"^f Strictly, glida is from a base glebe, soil ; esp. land attached to an ecclesiastical
... The comp. glebe-land is in Gascoigne. Fruits of War, st. 21. ..."
7. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1868)
"The assignment of glebe-lands was formerly held to be of such absolute ...
In England, the word manse includes both the parsonage-nouse and the glebe, ..."
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