vicinage

Noun

vicinage (countable and uncountable, plural vicinages)

1. (archaic) A surrounding district; a neighbourhood.
   • She is the only flower of fragrance that has blown in this vicinage for ten years past, or will for ten years to come […].1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXIV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn...
   • but scarce had I drawn back mine arms, strained the outward flexure of my knee-joints, and was fixed in an apt disposure to take the corvetto primo and leap-valiant of the cour, when methought suddenly there came in and did appear before me mine ancient, most reverend and singular good friend, the...1843, Bernard M— (of S—), A Dream of a Queen's Reign, page 4
2. (archaic) The people of a neighbourhood.
3. The state of living near something; proximity, closeness.
   • In the few years that she had lived here, a stranger herself, in some sort—not accustomed, as was her husband, to a lifelong vicinage to the pygmy burial-ground—she had developed no receptivity to that uncanny idea of a race of dwarfs.1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, page 7
4. (UK, US) The area where a crime was committed, a trial is being held, or the community from which jurors are drawn.
5. (New-Jersey) A geographical division of the New Jersey Superior Court, covering one or more counties, for judicial administration and the assignment of venue to an action within the Superior Court
6. (New-Jersey) A geographical division of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, covering several counties, for judicial administration and the assignment of venue to an action within the District Court