hidate

To divide (a region, such as a shire or hundred) into hides.

Verb

  1. To divide (a region, such as a shire or hundred) into hides.
    • In general, the newly-won districts were reckoned in carucates, while the older English territory was hidated. - 1971, C. W. Atkin, chapter 2, in Henry Clifford Darby, I. B. Terrett, editors, The Domesday Geography of...
  2. To assess the geld of (a place, such as a manor or borough) in terms of hides.
    • […] 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. - 1920 January, E. B. Demarest,...
    • Some of the king's manors were not hidated, and some were hidated but did not geld. - 1987, Wilfred Lewis Warren, The Governance of Norman and Angevin England, 1086–1272, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 27:

Origin

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

Forms

hidates hidating hidated

Synonyms

geld

Related

hide hidation