Word Meanings - OBROK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rent. A poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord's estate. Brande & C.

Related words: (words related to OBROK)

• ABSENTATION
  The act of absenting one's self. Sir W. Hamilton.
• ABSENTEEISM
  The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.
• ABSENTEE
  One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.
• ABSENTANEOUS
  Pertaining to absence.
• BRANDER
  1. One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron. 2. A gridiron.
• ABSENT-MINDED
  Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ness, n. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ly, adv.
• ABSENTER
  One who absents one's self.
• ESTATE
  The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm , which are the lords spiritual, the lords
• ABSENTNESS
  The quality of being absent-minded. H. Miller.
• ABSENTMENT
  The state of being absent; withdrawal. Barrow.
• ABSENTLY
  In an absent or abstracted manner.
• BRANDENBURG
  A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe. He wore a coat . . . trimmed with Brandenburgs. Smollett.
• ABSENT
  1. Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present. "Expecting absent friends." Shak. 2. Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent. 3. Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air.
• THEIR
  The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
• REESTATE
  To reëstablish. Walis.
• DEHONESTATE
  To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
• INTESTATE
  1. Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate. Blackstone. Airy succeeders of intestate joys. Shak. 2. Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate.
• DETESTATE
  To detest. Udall.
• POTESTATE
  A chief ruler; a potentate. Wyclif. "An irous potestate." Chaucer.
• RESTATE
  To state anew. Palfrey.
• TESTATE
  Having made and left a will; as, a person is said to die testate. Ayliffe.
• COESTATE
  Joint estate. Smolett.