hidate

English

Etymology

From hide (“unit of land”) +‎ -ate (verb forming suffix).

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^[1], 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.

Synonyms

• geld

Related terms

• hide
• hidation

Anagrams

• aideth