Crossword-Solution: EXCAMBION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Excambion | n. | Alt. of Excambium |
We have 1 clue for the answer “EXCAMBION”
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| exchange, esp of land | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMAZEC
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eruption
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Sentences with EXCAMBION (5)
They afterwards entered into an excambion by which Alexander reacquired Loggie-Wester in exchange for Letterewe, which then became the patrimony of the successors of Charles.
Hence the names of the politico-religious parties in the recent history of the Near East: "Exarchists" and "Patriarchists." EXCAMBION (a word connected with a large class of Low Latin and Romance forms, such as _cambium_, _concambium_, _scambium_, from Lat.
With such and so many motives, he can hardly be blamed for favouring or even suggesting a change which (when consummated by the subsequent excambion) would release him from a position so irksome and unsafe, enhance his Scottish influence, and aggrandize a favourite son, by disinheriting an unloved heir of his Odal birthright.
The Earldom also included CONQUEST or _acquired lands_, consisting, 1st, of lands added by the later Earls by purchase or excambion; and, 2nd, of lands which they had seized as _ultimi hæredes_, or confiscated for crime or Skatfall.
Ninian, or of Guidbrand of Quendal to the Vicar of Evie, for “a mass ilk Friday;” by Confiscations—as of Baddi’s Lands for bloodshed in the Kirkyard; by perpetuation of all liferent Donations; by pretended Excambion, retaining their own land and seizing the promised equivalent; by withholding their own Skatts and embezzling others, and by the numberless oppressions of lawless strength against weak neighbours, the Bishops advanced in wealth and power.