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Webster 1913 Edition


Vicinage

Vic′i-nage

(?; 48)
,
Noun.
[OF.
veisinage
, F.
voisinage
, from OF.
veisin
, F.
voisin
, neighboring, a neighbor, L.
vicinus
. See
Vicinity
.]
The place or places adjoining or near; neighborhood; vicinity;
as, a jury must be of the
vicinage
.
“To summon the Protestant gentleman of the vicinage.”
Macaulay.
Civil war had broken up all the usual ties of
vicinage
and good neighborhood.
Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1828 Edition


Vicinage

VIC'INAGE

,
Noun.
[from L. vicinia, neighborhood; vicinus, near.]
Neighborhood; the place or places adjoining or near. A jury must be of the vicinage, or body of the country.
In law, common because of vicinage, is where the inhabitants of two townships contiguous to each other, have usually intercommoned with one another; the beasts of one straying into the other's fields without molestation from either.

Definition 2024


vicinage

vicinage

English

Noun

vicinage (plural vicinages)

  1. (now rare) A surrounding district; a neighbourhood.
    • 1848, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: an Autobiography, London: Smith, Elder, and Co. Cornhill, page 263:
      It was as still as a church on a week-day: the pattering rain on the forest leaves was the only sound audible in its vicinage.
  2. (now rare) The people of a neighbourhood.
  3. The state of living near something; proximity, closeness.
    • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, page 7:
      In the few years that she had lived here, a stranger herself, in some sort—not accustomed, as was her husband, to a lifelong vicinage to the pygmy burial-ground—she had developed no receptivity to that uncanny idea of a race of dwarfs.
  4. (Britain, US, law) The area where a crime was committed, a trial is being held, or the community from which jurors are drawn.

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