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Community, tribe: basic social organization of the Mapuche, Huilliche, and Picunche peoples, a (familial) clan which recognizes the authority of a lonco.
a.1225, “In Dominica Palmarum”, in Richard Morris, editor, Old English Homilies and Homiletic Treatises, published 1868, page 7:
Drihten, þu dest þe lof of milc drinkende childre muðe.
Lord, out of milk-drinking children's mouths thou bringest forth praise.
1422, “The Gouvernaunce of Prynces, or Pryvete of Pryveteis”, in James Yonge, transl., edited by Robert Steele and T Henderson, Three Prose Versions of the Secreta Secretorum, translation of Secretum Secretorum by Anonymous (in Arabic), published 1898, page 136, lines 15–18:
For evyll workys may noght be y-hyde anente the Pepill: for the wyche thynge lese he moste his lof, his roialme shall fall, the crovne of his honnoure and of his reuerence he moste faille.