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Surname or Lastname
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English and Scottish : status name from Middle English burge(i)s, Old French burgeis ‘inhabitant and (usually) freeman of a (fortified) town’ (see Burke), especially one with municipal rights and duties. Burgesses generally had tenure of land or buildings from a landlord by burgage. In medieval England burgage involved the payment of a fixed money rent (as opposed to payment in kind); in Scotland it involved payment in service, guarding the town. The -eis ending is from Latin -ensis (modern English -ese as in Portuguese). Compare Burger.Thomas Burgess came from England to MA in about 1630 and eventually settled in Sandwich, MA.
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n.
The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior.
a.
Thin; slender; small; minute.
pl.
of Tenuis
n.
The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair.
n.
Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.
n.
The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor; also, the lands held by a vavasor.
a.
Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to dense.
n.
One of the Tenuirostres.
a.
Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.
n.
The consideration, condition, or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land.
n.
One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant.
n.
Manner of holding, in general; as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure.
n.
The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord.
n.
Refinement; delicacy.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Tenuate
imp. & p. p.
of Tenuate
n.
The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate.
pl.
of Tenuiroster
n.
Tenancy or tenure under a tenant or lessee; the tenure of an undertenant.
a.
Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.