Crossword-Solution: BURGESSES
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| Colonial Va.'s House of ___ | 1 answer |
| Colonial legislators | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with BURGESSES (5)
The mediaeval burgesses and the small peasant proprietors were the precursors of the modern bourgeoisie.
Hist.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess ½the true religion professed within the realm¸), the opposite party being called antiburghers.
Yet it was once a walled city; thriving, full of furred burgesses and men in armour, humming with affairs;—with tall spires, for aught that I know, and portly towers along the battlements.
For who doth not perceive that when those that sit aloft are vile and corrupt themselves, they corrupt the whole region and country where they are? Besides these, Diabolus made several burgesses and aldermen in Mansoul, such as out of whom the town, when it needed, might choose them officers, governors, and magistrates.
Then came my Lord of Arundel pricking across the down, And behind him the Mayor and Burgesses of merry Suthampton town.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1970–1988).