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hidates

hidates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hidate.

Meaning of hidate

Verb

hidate (third-person singular simple present hidates, present participle hidating, simple past and past participle hidated)

  1. (historical, transitive) To divide (a region, such as a shire or hundred) into hides.
    • In general, the newly-won districts were reckoned in carucates, while the older English territory was hidated.1971, C. W. Atkin, chapter 2, in Henry Clifford Darby, I. B. Terrett, editors, The Domesday Geography of Midland England, 2nd edition, Herefordshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57
  2. (historical, transitive) To assess the geld of (a place, such as a manor or borough) in terms of hides.
    • […] the well-known habit of beneficially hidating land, that is of arbitrarily estimating the number of hides on which it should pay Danegeld without regard for the number of hides there.1920 January, E. B. Demarest, “The Firma Unius Noctis”, in The English Historical Review, volume 35, page 82

Questions about hidates

What is hidates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Hidates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hidate.

Words near hidates in the dictionary

  1. hidalgoite
  2. hidalgos
  3. Hidam
  4. hidate
  5. hidated
  6. hidates
  7. hidating
  8. hidation
  9. hidato
  10. hidatos
  11. Hidatsa

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