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Webster 1913 Edition
Incameration
In-camˊer-a′tion
,Noun.
[Pref.
in-
in + L. camera
chamber, LL., also, jurisdiction: cf. F. incamération
, It. incamerazione
.] (R. C. Ch.)
The act or process of uniting lands, rights, or revenues, to the ecclesiastical chamber, i. e., to the pope’s domain.
Webster 1828 Edition
Incameration
INCAMERA'TION
,Noun.
The act or process of uniting lands, revenues or other rights to the pope's domain.
Definition 2024
incameration
incameration
English
Noun
incameration (uncountable)
- (obsolete, Roman Catholicism) The incorporation of certain property, rights, or income into the dominion of the Pope.[1]
- 1762, Paul M. Rapin de Thoyras and Nicolas Tindal, The History of England, Volume 12, p. 382:
- The Treaty of Pisa, signed the 17th of February 1664, ended the quarrels between the court of France and the pope. . . . ‘The pope shall revoke the incameration of the duchies of Castro and Ronciglione. The duke of Parma shall take possession of them, paying to the apostolical chamber the sum he owes it, of a million three hundred twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty crowns.’
- 1762, Paul M. Rapin de Thoyras and Nicolas Tindal, The History of England, Volume 12, p. 382:
Usage notes
- According to Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopædia, or a Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1728) this was a "term used in the Apostolical Chancery."
References
- ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.