Word Meanings - BURGHBRECH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace. Burrill. (more info) Law)

Related words: (words related to BURGHBRECH)

• TITH
  Tight; nimble. Of a good stirring strain too, she goes tith. Beau. & Fl.
• VIOLATOR
  One who violates; an infringer; a profaner; a ravisher.
• EVERYWHERENESS
  Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
• EVERYWHERE
  In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
• OFFENSELESS
  Unoffending; inoffensive.
• PEACEBREAKER
  One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.
• PLEDGERY
  A pledging; suretyship.
• PLEDGE
  The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment;
• TITHER
  1. One who collects tithes. Milton. 2. One who pays tithes. Chaucer.
• TITHABLE
  Subject to the payment of tithes; as, tithable lands.
• PLEDGEOR; PLEDGOR
  One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a pledger; -- opposed to Ant: pledgee. Note: This word analogically requires the e after g, but the spelling pledgor is perhaps commoner.
• VIOLATIVE
  Violating, or tending to violate.
• INHABITANT
  One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident. (more info) 1. One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city,
• OFFENSEFUL
  Causing offense; displeasing; wrong; as, an offenseful act.
• VIOLATE
  1. To treat in a violent manner; to abuse. His wife Boadicea violated with stripes, his daughters with rape. Milton. 2. To do violence to, as to anything that should be held sacred or respected; to profane; to desecrate; to break forcibly;
• PLEDGELESS
  Having no pledge.
• PEACEMAKER
  One who makes peace by reconciling parties that are at variance. Matt. v. 9. --Peace"mak`ing, n.
• PLEDGER
  One who pledges.
• PLEDGEE
  The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• SAFE-PLEDGE
  A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.
• IMPLEDGE
  To pledge. Sir W. Scott.
• REVERY
  See REVERIE
• GITTITH
  A musical instrument, of unknown character, supposed by some to have been used by the people of Gath, and thence obtained by David. It is mentioned in the title of Psalms viii., lxxxi., and lxxxiv. Dr. W. Smith.
• NONINHABITANT
  One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.