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(senseid) An administrative area or district between about the 5th to the 11th century, subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; also, a present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; a county; especially , a county having a name ending in (m).
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(RQ:Dekker Dramatic Works)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Curll|Edmund Curll,(nb...)|year=a. 1604 (date written)|year_published=1717|page=211|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pXdbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA211|oclc=1325927000|passage=But thus I do conjecture it to be, That at the firſt Unitining(sic) of the Heptarchy of the ''Saxons'', and the Shiring out of the Kingdom, it vvas divided into Shires, and the Shires again into Hundreds, as it fell out, in ſome more, in ſome leſs: VVhich Shires (as I have ſaid) the King gave to ſuch as he pleaſed, and to their Heirs, to hold of him by an Earls Fee.
(RQ:Macaulay History of England)
(RQ:Hawthorne English Notebooks)
(RQ:Housman Shropshire Lad) / My hand lay empty on my knee. / Aching on my knee it lay: / That morning half a shire away / So many an honest fellow's fist / Had wellnigh wrung it from the wrist.
(quote-book)
The people living in a shire ''((senseno))'' considered collectively.
(RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair)
(coordinate terms)
An administrative area or district in other countries.
(RQ:Bunyan Holy War)
An outer suburban or rural government area which elects its own council.
(short for)
A district or province governed by a person; specifically , the province of an archbishop, the see of a bishop, etc.
(RQ:Pliny Holland Historie of the World)
A region; also, a country.
(RQ:Marlorat Golding Revelation)
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
To constitute or reconstitute (a country or region) into one or more shires ''(noun (senseno))'' or counties.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Osborne (publisher)|Thomas Osborne|year=1575 December 26 (date written; Gregorian calendar)|year_published=1746|volume=I|page=83|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=7m71x9c7umMC&pg=PA158-IA113|oclc=1051550914|passage=It made no Matter, if the Countrie vvere never ſhired, nor her Majesties VVritt othervviſe curraunt then it is; for humblye he kepeth all his People ſubiect to Obedience and good Order; (..)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Curll|Edmund Curll,(nb...)|year=a. 1604 (date written)|year_published=1717|pages=209–211|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pXdbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA209|oclc=1325927000|passage=&91;pages 209–210&93; But vvhether it vvere ſo eſtabliſhed ''Egbert'', ''the Great|Alfred'', or ''the Elder|Edvvard'', vvhen they had brought it to a Monarchy, and Shired it out into parts, or that they vvere appointed Earls in every County, vvhich had an Inheritance therein, and had Juriſdiction, as by the County Court and Sheriffs Turns, it vvould ſeem it vvas: Is the Queſtion I deſire to be reſolved of. (..) &91;page 211&93; But thus I do conjecture it to be, That at the firſt Unitining(sic) of the Heptarchy of the ''Saxons'', and the Shiring out of the Kingdom, it vvas divided into Shires, and the Shires again into Hundreds, as it fell out, in ſome more, in ſome leſs: (..)
(quote-book)|year=1889|page=324|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=_2ZEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA324|column=1|oclc=1374025446|passage=The history of the shiring of Ireland is involved in more obscurity than the history of the shiring of England, though not for the same reason in the two cases. (..) The shiring of Ireland was purely the result of the English conquest.
(quote-book) and (w), and the appearance of the shire reeve is placed somewhat later; but recent work suggests that developments may have been more gradual, with shiring first becoming systematic under King of England|Edgar and his successors and the shire reeve emerging as part of this process.
late 14th c. (w), ''(w)''. General Prologue: 15-16.
- {{quote|enm|And specially from every shires endeOf Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
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