| 单词 |
under-tenant |
| 释义 |
ˈunder-ˌtenant
[under-1 6 a.]
A tenant holding land or premises from another tenant; a subtenant.
1546in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 185 Yf the undertenant be honest. 1582Ibid. 422 Undertenants commonly called inmakes. 1612Davies Why Ireland, etc. 276 To settle and secure the Under-Tennants; to the End, there may be a repose and establishment of euery Subiects Estate; Lord and Tenant. 1666in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 23 The said Henry and his undertenants had been in peaceable possession thereof for four yeares. 1704Lond. Gaz. No. 3990/4 The Manor of Lizard,..in the Possession of George Caning Esq., or his Under-Tenants. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. viii. 123 A third incident to estates for life relates to the under-tenants or lessees. 1804M. Edgeworth Ennui v[iii], These fellows..live in idleness, whilst they rack a parcel of wretched under-tenants. 1872Froude Short Stud. (1878) II. 556 He had no intention that the under⁓tenant should be protected against himself.
transf.1809Malkin Gil Blas x. v. ⁋7 They..exalted him to a level with the under-tenants of Olympus. |
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