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Hansard

name
/ˈhænsəd/UK/ˈhænsɚd/US

Etymology

PIE word *ḱóm From Middle English hansard (“merchant or citizen of a Hanseatic town; member of a merchant guild; a surname”), from hanse, hansze, hanze, haunse (“merchant guild; the Hanseatic League; member of the Hanseatic League; membership fee for a merchant guild; payment in general”) + -ard (suffix forming adjectives and nouns). Hanse is derived from Old French hanse (“merchant guild; membership fee for a merchant guild”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by; with; along”) + *sed- (“to sit”). The English word is analysable as Hanse (“merchant guild; the Hanseatic League”) + -ard (suffix forming agent nouns, especially pejorative ones).

  1. derived from *ḱóm✻ — “beside, by; with; along”
  2. derived from hanse — “merchant guild; membership fee for a merchant guild”
  3. inherited from hansard — “merchant or citizen of a Hanseatic town; member of a merchant guild; a surname”

Definitions

  1. A surname.

    • The Armes of a very ancient Family, ſettled at Kelſey in the County, which came to them by the Marriage of the Heireſs of Hanſard.
    • Walworth, (Durham,) near Heighington, was anciently the ſeat of the Nevils; from whom it paſſed by marriage to the Hanſards, one of the baron-families of the Bpk [bishoprick].

  2. A member of a Hanse (“merchant guild”), or a resident of a Hanse town.

    • The merchants of the Hanse Towns, or Hansards, as they were then commonly termed, were established in London at a very early period, and their factory here was of considerable magnitude and importance.
    • The earlier commercial fisheries of the northern Atlantic waters were mainly of herring and mackerel, taken by nets in the North and Norwegian seas and marketed abroad by Hansard merchants.

  3. The official report of debates and other proceedings in the British and some Commonwealth…

    The official report of debates and other proceedings in the British and some Commonwealth parliaments.

    • He, for example, who would essay to take account of Mr. [William Ewart] Gladstone, must read much else besides Hansard; he must brush up his Homer, and set himself to acquire some theology.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA