encomienda
/en-koh-mee-en-duh, -kom-ee-; Spanish eng-kaw-myen-dah/US // ɛnˌkoʊ miˈɛn də, -ˌkɒm i-; Spanish ˌɛŋ kɔˈmyɛn dɑ //
遗产,遗产管理,遗产税,遗产法
Definitions
n.名词 noun
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plural en·co·mi·en·das [en-koh-mee-en-duhz, -kom-ee-; Spanish eng-kaw-myen-dahs]. /ɛnˌkoʊ miˈɛn dəz, -ˌkɒm i-; Spanish ˌɛŋ kɔˈmyɛn dɑs/.
- : the system, instituted in 1503, under which a Spanish soldier or colonist was granted a tract of land or a village together with its Indian inhabitants.
- : the land or village together with its inhabitants.
Examples
The other work featured at the gallery is a video by Aragón, titled La Encomienda.
If he has an encomienda, in addition to this, as your Majesty has been informed, it is a very small one.
He had come to the Indies as a layman, had held an encomienda after becoming a priest, but in 1514 had renounced it.
Hundreds of monasteries had been established, especially wherever there were Indians in encomienda.
As, pues, haz testamento en dos minutos y encomienda el alma en otros dos.
No relative of the president or of an oidor could be appointed legally to a corregidor-ship or to an encomienda.
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