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View definitions for burghal

burghal

adjective as in city

adjective as in urban

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Example Sentences

But we must keep these ancient boroughs well apart from any royal manors which the king has newly raised to burghal rank.

There has come down to us in a sadly degenerate form a document which we shall hereafter call The Burghal Hidage.

Markets are being held and market-tolls are being taken in many vills which are not of burghal rank.

This is proved by The Burghal Hidage of which we spoke above, p. 187, and shall speak again hereafter.

In Gloucestershire is Gloucester, but Winchcombe also asserts its burghal rank.

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On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to burghal, such as: citified, civic, civil, interurban, intraurban, and megalopolitan.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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