hidate
English
Etymology
hide + -ate
Verb
hidate (third-person singular simple present hidates, present participle hidating, simple past and past participle hidated)
- (historical, transitive) To divide (a region, such as a shire or hundred) into hides.
- 1971, C. W. Atkin, "Herefordshire", chapter 2 of Henry Clifford Darby and I. B. Terrett (editors), The Domesday Geography of Midland England, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57:
- In general, the newly-won districts were reckoned in carucates, while the older English territory was hidated.
- 1971, C. W. Atkin, "Herefordshire", chapter 2 of Henry Clifford Darby and I. B. Terrett (editors), The Domesday Geography of Midland England, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57:
- (historical, transitive) To assess the geld of (a place, such as a manor or borough) in terms of hides.
- 1920 January, E. B. Demarest, “The Firma Unius Noctis” in, The English Historical Review, volume 35, page 82:
- […] the well-known habit of beneficially hidating land, that is of arbitrarily estimating the number of hides on which it should pay Danegeld without regard for the number of hides there.
- 1987, Wilfred Lewis Warren, The Governance of Norman and Angevin England, 1086–1272, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 27:
- Some of the king's manors were not hidated, and some were hidated but did not geld.
- 1920 January, E. B. Demarest, “The Firma Unius Noctis” in, The English Historical Review, volume 35, page 82:
Synonyms
- geld
Related terms
- hide
- hidation
Anagrams
- aideth