hidate

English

Etymology

hide + -ate

Verb

hidate (third-person singular simple present hidates, present participle hidating, simple past and past participle hidated)

  1. (historical, transitive) To divide (a region, such as a shire or hundred) into hides.
    • 1971, C. W. Atkin, chapter 2, in Henry Clifford Darby, I. B. Terrett, editors, The Domesday Geography of Midland England, 2nd edition, Herefordshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57:
      In general, the newly-won districts were reckoned in carucates, while the older English territory was hidated.
  2. (historical, transitive) To assess the geld of (a place, such as a manor or borough) in terms of hides.
    • 1920 January, E. B. Demarest, “The Firma Unius Noctis”, in The English Historical Review, volume 35, page 82:
      [] the well-known habit of beneficially hidating land, that is of arbitrarily estimating the number of hides on which it should pay Danegeld without regard for the number of hides there.
    • 1987, Wilfred Lewis Warren, The Governance of Norman and Angevin England, 1086–1272, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 27:
      Some of the king's manors were not hidated, and some were hidated but did not geld.

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