hidate

present singular third person hidates · participle present hidating · participle past hidated · past hidated

1. historicaltransitiveTo divide (a region, such as a shire or hundred) into hides.

   In general, the newly-won districts were reckoned in carucates, while the older English territory was hidated.

   1971, C. W. Atkin, chapter 2, in Henry Clifford Darby, I. B. Terrett, editors, The Domesday Geography of Midland England, 2nd edition, Herefordshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57

2. historicaltransitiveTo assess the geld of (a place, such as a manor or borough) in terms of hides.

   Some of the king's manors were not hidated, and some were hidated but did not geld.

   1987, Wilfred Lewis Warren, The Governance of Norman and Angevin England, 1086–1272, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 27

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   […] the well-known habit of beneficially hidating land, that is of arbitrarily estimating the number of hides on which it should pay Danegeld without regard for the number of hides there.

   1920 January, E. B. Demarest, “The Firma Unius Noctis”, in The English Historical Review, volume 35, page 82