"burghal" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "burgh + -al",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1867, John Guthrie Smith, A Digest of the Law of Scotland Relating to the Poor, the Public Health, and Other Matters Managed by Parochial Boards, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, Introduction, p. 2",
          "text": "In Scotland, parishes are either burghal, i.e. those comprised wholly within a burgh royal; landward, those forming a rural district; or mixed, i.e. a burgh with a rural district attached.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1930, John Buchan, chapter 13, in Castle Gay",
          "text": "There is a pleasant smell of cooking about, and a hum of compact and contented life. Add the excitement of an election, and you have that busy burghal hive which is the basis of all human society--a snug little commune intent on its own affairs, a world which for the moment owes allegiance to no other.",
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          "ref": "1986, H. C. Darby, chapter 10, in Domesday England, Cambridge University Press, page 290",
          "text": "It is true that Frome is not called a borough, nor are burgesses recorded for it, but the payment of the ‘third penny’ suggests burghal status […]",
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        "Relating to a burgh or borough."
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        "(UK) Relating to a burgh or borough."
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        "burgh"
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  "word": "burghal"
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    {
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        "Scotland"
      ],
      "word": "landward"
    }
  ],
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  "etymology_text": "burgh + -al",
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      "expansion": "burghal (not comparable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1867, John Guthrie Smith, A Digest of the Law of Scotland Relating to the Poor, the Public Health, and Other Matters Managed by Parochial Boards, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, Introduction, p. 2",
          "text": "In Scotland, parishes are either burghal, i.e. those comprised wholly within a burgh royal; landward, those forming a rural district; or mixed, i.e. a burgh with a rural district attached.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1930, John Buchan, chapter 13, in Castle Gay",
          "text": "There is a pleasant smell of cooking about, and a hum of compact and contented life. Add the excitement of an election, and you have that busy burghal hive which is the basis of all human society--a snug little commune intent on its own affairs, a world which for the moment owes allegiance to no other.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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        }
      ],
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