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Webster 1913 Edition


Vicinage

Vic′i-nage

(?; 48)
,
Noun.
[OF.
veisinage
, F.
voisinage
, from OF.
veisin
, F.
voisin
, neighboring, a neighbor, L.
vicinus
. See
Vicinity
.]
The place or places adjoining or near; neighborhood; vicinity;
as, a jury must be of the
vicinage
.
“To summon the Protestant gentleman of the vicinage.”
Macaulay.
Civil war had broken up all the usual ties of
vicinage
and good neighborhood.
Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1828 Edition


Vicinage

VIC'INAGE

,
Noun.
[from L. vicinia, neighborhood; vicinus, near.]
Neighborhood; the place or places adjoining or near. A jury must be of the vicinage, or body of the country.
In law, common because of vicinage, is where the inhabitants of two townships contiguous to each other, have usually intercommoned with one another; the beasts of one straying into the other's fields without molestation from either.