Medical Definition of Manrent
1. Homage or service rendered to a superior, as to a lord; vassalage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manrent
Literary usage of Manrent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Registrum Honoris de Morton: A Series of Ancient Charters of the Earldom of by Morton, Earls of, Thomas Thomson, Alexander Macdonald (1853)
"... _L he Letter of manrent of Hev of Douglas to my Lord of ... my lyfe and at I
falbe leile and trev to my faid Lord eri and til his ayris in manrent and ..."
2. A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans by James Browne (1843)
"... or clans—Bonds of amity, or manrent—State of the Highlands under this
system—Spirit of lawless revenge— Customs which nursed it—Law of succession. ..."
3. Publications by Spalding Club, Aberdeen (1849)
"RATTRAY OF CRAIGHALL HIS BAND OF manrent—1587. Be it kend till all men be thir
presentis, me George Rattray of Craig- hall to becum, ..."
4. Collectanea de Rebus Albanicis: Consisting of Original Papers and Documents by Donald Gregory, Iona club, Edinburgh, William Forbes Skene (1847)
"BOND OF manrent BY MALCOLM ... of this my band of manrent as said is with me and
my airis. ... manrent ..."
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