scutage
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English scutage, from Medieval Latin scutagium, from Latin scutum (“shield”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
scutage (countable and uncountable, plural scutages)
- (historical) A tax, paid in lieu of military service, that was a significant source of revenue in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
- Synonym: escuage
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- The land tax, in its modern shape, has superseded all the former methods of rating either property, or persons in respect of their property, whether by tenths or fifteenths, subsidies on land, hidages, scutages, or tallages
- 1925, D. Pasquet, An Essay on the Origins of the House of Commons:
- The wars and the maladministration of Richard I and John forced these kings more and more to count on extraordinary revenues, to multiply aids and especially scutages.
Translations edit
a tax
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Further reading edit
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin scūtāgium, calquing Old French escuage. Compare scuage and scute.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
scutage (plural scutages)
- (Late Middle English) scutage (medieval English tax)
- Synonym: scuage
Descendants edit
- English: scutage
References edit
- “scūtāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.