Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An inhabitant or a freeholder in a hundred.
- n. In English law, a man who may be of a jury in any controversy respecting land within the hundred to which he belongs.
- n. One having the jurisdiction of a hundred; sometimes, the bailiff of a hundred. Also hundredor, hundredman.
Wiktionary
- n. An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred (administrative subdivision).
- n. law One competent to serve on a jury in an action for land in the hundred to which he belongs.
- n. One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred.
- n. (Law) A person competent to serve on a jury, in an action for land in the hundred to which he belongs.
- n. One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred.
Etymologies
- hundred + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Twelve freeholders were chosen, who, having sworn, together with the hundreder, or presiding magistrate of that division, to administer impartial justice, [**] proceeded to the examination of that cause which was submitted to their jurisdiction.”
“‘freshman’ for proselyte; ‘mooned’ for lunatic; ‘foreshewer’ for prophet; ‘hundreder’ for centurion; Jewel ‘foretalk’, where we now employ preface; Holland ‘sunstead’ where we use solstice; ‘leechcraft’ instead of medicine; and another, ‘wordcraft’ for logic; ‘starconner’”
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Words of Anathem
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