sac
/sæk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.67 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines; now used only in the phrase sac and soc or soc and sac.
British usage
noun
Acronym of senior aircraftman.
noun
Initialism of saeculum ante Christum (“era before Christ”).
name
Example Sentences
- "Kasparov sacked his queen early on in the game to gain a positional advantage against Kramnik."
- "I kept saccing monsters at the altar until I was rewarded with a new weapon."
- "Kasparov's queen sac early in the game gained him a positional advantage against Kramnik."
- "But it is really the court-baron which represents the ancient assembly of the mark, while the court-leet represents the lord's jurisdiction of sac and soc, whether granted before or since the coming of William."
- "In later times, if the lord had "sac and soc,” his court had the authority of the Court Leet; if he had the view of frankpledge the suitors at his court were free from attendance at the sheriff's tourn; his court was then in all points like the hundred court, but independent of the sheriff."
- "The grant of “sac and soc” did not always carry with it the right to hold a court, but frequently amounted only to the privilege of receiving the forfeitures the lord's men should incur in the Hundred court, or possibly to one-third of the revenues of the Hundred and Shire, which had formerly gone to the ealdorman."
Etymology
Usage
- Informal
- Transitive verb
- British usage
- American usage