Meaning of tanist | Babel Free

Definitions

The heir presumptive to the chieftainship or kingship of a Celtic clan in ancient Ireland, Scotland or Mann.

historical

Equivalents

Examples

“Lover, for her love⟳ he prowled with colonel Richard Burke, tanist of his sept, under the walls of Clerkenwell and, crouching, saw⟳ a flame of vengeance hurl them upward in the fog.”

“In 1570 Dermot died at 'his own⟳ house' of Castle Inch. His brother and tanist, Cormac Mac Teige (fourteenth Lord), succeeded him (Ó Murchadha, p. 16).”

“As a result⟳ of the universal introduction of the English common law, therefore, the original tanist acquired a common law title to the disputed land⟳ 'without grant or confirmation of the conqueror'.”

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