Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
Canterburie. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
Canterburie, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
Canterburie in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
Canterburie you have here. The definition of the word
Canterburie will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
Canterburie, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Proper noun
Canterburie
- Obsolete spelling of Canterbury.
1577, Raphael Holinshed, The Laste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Irelande, with their Descriptions. Conteyning, the Chronicles of Englande from William Conquerour vntill this Present Time, volume II, signature V, London: Imprinted for Lucas Harison, →OCLC, page 5, col. 2:
1594, Richard Hooker, “To the Most Reverend Father in God My Very Good Lord, the Lord Archbishop of Canterburie His Grace [John Whitgift], Primate and Metropolitane of All England”, in J S, editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, , 3rd edition, London: Will Stansby , published 1611, →OCLC, book IV, page :For there are diuers motiues, dravving men to fauour mightily thoſe opinions vvherein their perſvvaſions are but vveakely ſetled: and if the paſſions of the minde be ſtrong, they eaſily ſophiſticate the vnderſtanding, they make it apt to beeleeue vpon very ſclender vvarrant and to imagine infallible truth vvhere ſcarce any probable ſhevv appeareth.
1850, Various, Notes & Queries 1850.01.19:Bolton says, "The sayd victorious Princes tombe is in the goodly Cathedral Church erected to the honour of Christ, in Canterburie; there (beside his quilted coat-armour, with half-sleeves, Taberd fashion, and his triangular shield, both of them painted with the royall armories of our kings, and differenced with silver labels) hangs this kind of Pavis or Target, curiously (for those times) embost and painted, and the Scutcheon in the bosse being worne out, and the Armes (which, it seemes, were the same with his coate armour, and not any particular devise) defaced, and is altogether of the same kinde with that upon which (Froissard reports) the dead body of the Lord Robert of Dvras, and nephew to the Cardinall of Pierregoort, was laid, and sent unto that Cardinale, from the Battell of Poictiers, where the Blacke Prince obtained a Victorie, the renowne whereof is immortale."