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city noun megalopolis, metropolis, metropolitan area, municipality, polis, urban district, urban place, urbs Associated concepts: city attorney, city council, city court, city districts, city employee, city hall, city limits, city marrhal, city officer, city purpose, municipal corporations See also: community CITY, government. A town incorporated by that name. Originally, this word did not signify a town, but a portion of mankind who lived under the same government: what the Romans called civitas, and, the Greeks polis; whence the word politeia, civitas seu reipublicae status et administratio. Toull. Dr. Civ. Fr. 1. 1, t. 1, n. 202; Henrion de Pansey, Pouvoir Municipal, pp. 36, 37. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Middleton had instructed his executrix to "cause see and provide that all and every my apprentices be made firemen of the Citie of London Immediately and as sone as any of their severall termes of apprentishode shall happen to be expired and ended of that Arte wherof I am nowe a freman my selfe"; Tottell was made free in 1547, the year of Middleton's death, as Middleton had provided in his will. A notation on the Mayor's 1572 list, for example, observed that: "The whole Playes were playde, thoughe manye of the citie were sore against the settinge forthe therof' (Mayor's List 10, in Clopper 1979: 97). Indeed, in his 1998 survey of rail transit investments built since 1980, Jonathan Richmond of Harvard's Taubman Center for Local Government concluded that none had appreciably reduced congestion in citie s. |
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