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Definition of Prisages
1. prisage [n] - See also: prisage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prisages
Literary usage of Prisages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to by Edward William Cox, Great BRitain Magistrates' cases (1871)
"... and took there wreck of the sea, which belonged to the king, and took prisages
and customs from vessels of wine, and from vessels and boats of sea fish, ..."
2. Notices Relative to the Early History of the Town and Port of Hull by Charles Frost (1827)
"quently obtained from Henry III. a Charter of Confirmation of his Port of Hull
and his prisages there ; and with a view to connect the grant of the Port and ..."
3. The Little Red Book of Bristol by Bristol (England). (1900)
"Because heretofore discord has very often arisen among the native merchants on
the taking ot prisages of wines, and divers have been of divers opinions that ..."
4. A Report of the Trial at Bar, Rowe V. Brenton: Tried in the Court of King's by Alexander Snow Rowe, George Concanen, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1830)
"... in the aforesaid County of Cornwall, and the aforesaid prisages and customs,
and profits of the ports aforesaid, together with the said wreck of the sea ..."
5. A Collectanea Relating to the Bristol Friars Minors (Gray Friars) and Their by George Edward Weare (1893)
"... of the Friars Minors of the town "of Bristol the moiety of the prisages of
fish as well "salt as fresh appertaining to the same for the time " being, ..."
6. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"321 ; B. to touch the warts with chick-peas on Souche', Croyances prisages el
traditions the first day of the moon, wrap the diverses, p. ..."
7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Cresswell Cresswell (1829)
"... and our prisages and customs of wines, and all the profits of our ports in
Corn-matt, &c.; also our stannary in the same county, together with the ..."
8. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1866)
"Escheats, Jews, forests, undue exaction of prisages, all come in for their turn ;
but, what is politically the most significant of all, is the request ..."
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