Definition of Maitland

1. Noun. English historian noted for his works on the history of English law (1850-1906).

Exact synonyms: Frederic William Maitland
Generic synonyms: Historian, Historiographer

Definition of Maitland

1. Proper noun. (surname A=An English and Scottish from=Old French) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maitland

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Maine
Maine Coon
Maine Coons
Maine law
Maine laws
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Mainer
Mainers
Maintenon
Mainz
Maire
Maisie
Maissiat's band
Maisy
Maitland
Maitreya
Maitreyan
Maj
Maja
Maja squinado
Majesty
Majidae
Majocchi's disease
Majocchi granulomas
Major League Baseball
Major Mitchell
Major Mitchell's cockatoo
Major Mitchell's cockatoos
Majorana

Literary usage of Maitland

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1907)
"Translated, with an introduction, by FW maitland. Cambridge: University Press, 1900. 7. English Law and the Renaissance. By the same. ..."

2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1907)
"maitland has shown good reason for concluding that this note book was used by Bracton in writing his great treatise. Some portions of these Year Books have ..."

3. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1875)
"maitland said he yet VI hoped that our people would drive the enemy back ; zd Period. ... maitland entreated them to form a blended line without regard to ..."

4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"In Went maitland (much (he more populous part) are ... the work of maitland. In spite of all ki« o- deavours, however, tliis party was unable to Iwis its ..."

5. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1897)
"Gift of Mr. maitland. National Intelligencer, and Washington Advertiser. ... Gift of Mr. maitland. Englishman (The). Being the Sequel of the Guardian. ..."

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