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soke

/sohk/US // soʊk //UK // (səʊk) //

煞有介事,煞车,煞笔,煞有介事地

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Early English Law.

    • : the privilege of holding court, usually connected with the feudal rights of lordship.
    • : a district over which local jurisdiction was exercised.

Examples

  • If that didn't seem tew influense me, I would soke in cold water for 12 months.

  • In the meantime eight or ten men have gathered the amole and soke.

  • The free man is the freer if he has soke and sake, if he has jurisdiction over other men.

  • They could give and sell their land, but the soke and the commendation and the service would remain to the Saint.

  • These free men could sell or give their land, but the commendation and the soke and sake would remain to St Edmund.