compascuity en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /kəmˈpæskju.ɪti/
Etymology
From Medieval Latin compāscuitās, from compāscuus + -itās.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The shared right to graze animals on the same pasture.
[…] that compascuity be adopted so that there would be fewer concentrations of animals to watch and each pasture could be guarded by two or three men well-armed with fusils.
1991, Richard H. Thompson, Wolf-hunting in France in the Reign of Louis XV, page 116:[…] often establishing zones of compascuity […]
1972, Daniel Alexander Gómez-Ibáñez, The Western Pyrenees, page 75:In France, the regimes that followed the fall of Charles X in 1830 viewed economic growth as essential for social, national, and international stability, which, on the Basque borderland, meant support for locals’ demands for compascuity.
2025, Talitha Ilacqua, “An Open Border for Two Bordered States”, in State-Making in an Age of Revolution, 1830–1880, page 152:In the sequel this theft cost the Dalai Lama his throne, British operations to this effect being made easier through the friendliness of the frontier Tibetans, who were ‘in compascuity’ with British subjects.
1932, Elsé Haydon Carrier, Water and Grass, page 369:
Translations (2)
fr compascuité (Translations) · it compascuità (Translations)