tanistry
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tanistry
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The customs of "gavelkinde" and "tanistry" were attended with the same absurdity in the distribution of property.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by Hume, David
The succession to every degree of sovereignty was regulated by the law of tanistry, which limited heredity right to the family but not to the individual....
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia
The “joint and undivided family” and the formation of “joint families,” or gilds, was one way of obviating this result; another way was the custom of tanistry.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various
Freehold and leasehold, primogeniture and entail, took the place of tribal ownership and tanistry.
From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin
On the other side was tribalism, with its tie of original kinship instead of territorial subordination; its tanistry; its Brehon law.
From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
