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Definition of Gilds
1. gild [v] - See also: gild
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gilds
Literary usage of Gilds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Conflicts of Capital and Labour Historically and Economically Considered by George Howell (1878)
"Confiscation of the property of gilds— §40. Dissolution of the colleges, ...
Danish gilds; partial revival of gilds; friendly societies an offshoot of the ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Their fraternities or societies may be divided into three classes: religious or
benevolent, merchant and craft gilds. The last two categories, ..."
3. The Gild Merchant: A Contribution to British Municipal History by Charles Gross (1890)
"Brentano does not refute the arguments of Wilda and Hartwig against the derivation
of the earliest gilds from the sacrificial assemblies of the North. ..."
4. An Introduction to the Industrial History of England by Abbott Payson Usher (1920)
"There is reference at times to the secrets of the gilds, ... In the fourteenth
century the religious gilds of London, locally known as the parish gilds, ..."
5. Proceedings by Cambridge Antiquarian Society (Cambridge, England) (1899)
"The SECRETARY made a communication of which the following is an abstract : THE
gilds OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. The gilds of the town and county of Cambridge may be ..."
6. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Edward Potts Cheyney (1907)
"Besides the gilds merchant, which included persons of all industrial occupations,
and the craft gilds, which were based upon separate organizations of each ..."
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