compascuity
Pronunciations
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/kəmˈpæskju.ɪti/
Noun
The shared right to graze animals on the same pasture.
Usage- Uncountable
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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.
[…] often establishing zones of compascuity […]
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[…] 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.
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.