How To Use Seignior In A Sentence
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Moreover, it was not upon this relique which I then swore, but upon another fragment of the true cross which I got from the Grand Seignior, weakened in virtue, doubtless, by sojourning with infidels.
Quentin Durward
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Hundred Associates shifted the obligation of settling the country by granting vast estates called seigniories along the St. Lawrence and leaving to these new lords of the soil the duty of bringing out habitants.
Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
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He says," announced the Swiss, "that he is cousin and agent of the seignior they call the patroon, and his name is Van Corlaer.
The Lady of Fort St. John
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Be as churlish as you list -- I never quarrel with my customers -- my jerry come tumbles, my merry dancers, my little playfellows, as Jacques Butcher says to his lambs -- those in fine, who, like your seigniorship, have H.E. M.P. written on their foreheads.
Quentin Durward
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The cens et rentes were unduly raised, the droit de banalite was pressed to the extent that if a habitant went to a better or more convenient mill than the seignior's, he had to pay tolls to both, the transfer of property was hampered by the lods el ventes and the droit de retraite, and the claim always made by the seigniors to the exclusive use of the streams running by or through the seigniories was a bar to the establishment of industrial enterprise.
Lord Elgin
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(Extracting profits from the manufacturing of money is called seigniorage, after seigneur -- "lord" in French.)
The New Coin Of The Realm
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He held the seigniory of Aubigny in France, to which his son succeeded in 1567.
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If it enters bilateral or multilateral agreements, there would be a likely cost of sharing seigniorage collected on the dollars circulating in the dollarized countries.
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Dollarized Latins would lose control over their own interest rates and be hit with hefty bills known as seigniorage, a kind of fee countries pay for using someone else's money.
Dollars And Discontent
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There was one good thing in the Act. The power of commuting the seigniorial or feudal tenure into free and common soccage was given to the censitaire in transactions with the crown.
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1
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Transjordanine region was divided into these two seigniories, -- the kingdom of Sehon, and the kingdom of Og. That of Sehon was Perea, strictly so called now; that of Og, was all the rest under the name of Bashan.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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First, the issuer of the key currency can collect seigniorage.
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In particular, he emphasizes the loss of seigniorage as a result of moving from national currency to dollarization.
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High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones.
Max
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It did not properly make a part of the dominions of the Duke of Burgundy, but had been placed in his hands in pawn or in pledge, for the repayment of a considerable sum of money, due to Charles by the Emperor Sigismund of Austria, to whom the seigniory of the place belonged in property.
Anne of Geierstein
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High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones.
Max
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He asked for the more important tract lying west of the little river at Malbaie and stretching to the seigniory of Les Eboulements, Fraser for that lying east of the river and stretching some eighteen miles along the St. Lawrence to the
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861
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Influenced by the liberal doctrines of the Enlightenment, German reformers tried to accelerate and regulate this process by limiting seignorial dues and services in hopes that liberation from the most oppressive aspects of seignorialism and a larger stake in the produce of a seigniory would encourage peasants to work harder.
Food That Tastes Good and is Good For You, Too
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The problem with this second option, he points out, is that in a highly developed financial system such as ours, the federal government's gain from printing money, what economists call seigniorage, is quite small.
Hummel Predicts U.S. Government Default, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Having thus surveyed and located the mines now worked by the present occupants, and secured to them their titles in fee simple, without rent, regie, or seigniorage, let us now consider the proper policy as to the vast unoccupied public mineral domain.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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Finally, a rarer due, but the most burdensome of all, is that of acapte ou de plaid-a-merci, which is a double rent, or a year's yield of fruits, payable as well on the death of the seignior as on that of the copyholder.
The Ancient Regime
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The United States Joint Economic Committee recently proposed a simple formula for sharing revenues from seigniorage as follows.
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Grand Seignior, who, on our first introduction, is Judge Morris; we salute, which we do by applying the palm of our right hand to the lips, then turning the hand to his seigniorship and bringing our left hand across the breast, which salutation being returned by the Grand Seignior, who sits upon a raised platform and wields a gavel, we take seats wherever our sense of cleanliness will permit, and where we hope there may be no traveling minute messengers conveying ideas from one man's head to another.
The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details
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M. de Gaspé tells how he often accompanied Madame Taché, in her own right co-seigneuress of Kamouraska, opposite Malbaie, in her visits to the people on the seigniory.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861
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Sometimes during war the seignior's wife and daughters were reduced to plowing in the fields and laboring with the women servants at the harvest; but ordinarily the life at the seigniory was a life of petty grandeur, with such style as the backwoods afforded.
Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
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Second, nation states use their currency for seigniorage.
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And whereas diuers of the rulers in those daies here in this land were called kings, those had more large seigniories than the other, as
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8)
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My point is that the seigniorage that the US enjoys as a result of the dollar's being the international reserve currency has a cost as well.
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Who is it but the merchants who are buying up the seigniories and living in the manor-houses to-day?
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
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The seigniors themselves largely benefited by the capitalization in money of their old rights, and by the untrammelled possession of land held en franc aleu roturier.
Lord Elgin
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The savings projected by the office come from the fact coins and bills cost less than their face value to make, so the government gains value, known as seigniorage, with each one produced.
The Seattle Times
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The seigniories were the ground on which these paternal methods of creating a farming community were to be developed, but despite the wise intentions of the government the whole machinery was far from realizing the results which might reasonably have been expected from its operation.
Lord Elgin
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Though not often discussed in polite company, seigniorage, that is, the ability to coin or print cash (the right held by a feudal seigneur) and have other folks hold it, is valuable: Those who hold the $100 bills have, for many, many years, been providing a substantial loan to the U.S. government -- and it's interest free!
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The seigniors themselves largely benefited by the capitalization in money of their old rights, and by the untrammelled possession of land held _en franc aleu roturier_.
Lord Elgin
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In fact, this new model brought two main advantages to the US: in on hand the revenues from the money creation itself called seigniorage and on the other hand the possibility to hold a trade deficit for a very long time.
FXstreet.com
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The savings projected by the office come from the fact that coins and bills cost less than their face value to make, so the government gains value, known as seigniorage, with each one produced.
NYT > Home Page
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There are few seigniories which produce at present the revenue that Absalom derived from his head.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Jacques Butcher says to his lambs — those in fine, who, like your seigniorship, have H.E. M.P. written on their foreheads. —
Quentin Durward
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Already the banks of the St. Lawrence below Quebec were laid out in seigniories, and the farms were tolerably well cultivated.
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1
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The knights of Duart and Sleat, the chiefs of Clanranald and Glengarry, the Lochaber seigniory of Lochiel, and the titled chivalry of Sutherland and Seaforth, [18] formed subjects of poetic eulogy.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
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They appear to have even borrowed the name of the Recollet convent, _Notre Dame des Anges_, and given it to their own establishment and seigniory by the St. Charles.
Canada
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But whatever she did by day, she danced by night, with her wild gyration and gesture, as naturally as a moth flies; and when not in demand with the seigniory, was wont to perform in even keener force and fire at the quarters, to an admiring circle of her own kind, with ambitious imitators on the outskirts.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865
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He rests between two animals who warm Him from the cold, He who remedies our ills with His great power; His kingdom and seigniory are the world and the calm heaven, and now He sleeps in the hay.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
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I merely point out that in this case the reduction in the benefits of seigniorage would be balanced in a slight boost to US output growth.
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This gain, called seigniorage, is an implicit tax on the people's cash balances.
Inflation Doesn't Pay The Government Like It Used To
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-- Feudal seignior, and suzerain, that is to say, commander-in-chief of the great resident army whose willing forces had served to reconstruct society in the ninth century, the King, through the remotest of his origins -- that is to say, through the immemorial confusion of sovereignty with property -- was the owner of France, the same as an individual owns his private domain. [
The Modern Regime, Volume 1
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Hazeur were invited to sell back the seigniory to the government.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861
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Iles and seigniories vnknowen, and not by the seas, and
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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His estate was a feudal seigniory in the district of Gex, on the very frontier of Switzerland, but in France, though enjoying immunity from French taxation.
Voltaire
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Influenced by the liberal doctrines of the Enlightenment, German reformers tried to accelerate and regulate this process by limiting seignorial dues and services in hopes that liberation from the most oppressive aspects of seignorialism and a larger stake in the produce of a seigniory would encourage peasants to work harder.
Food That Tastes Good and is Good For You, Too
