Trubner told me I was a homo unius libri, meaning Erewhon.
Often it is a round sum of money; but often it will consist of provisions necessary to maintain the king's household during a night or two or three nights (servicium unius noctis, servicium duarum noctium).
We begin with terra unius manentis, terra unius casati, terra unius tributarii, which keep clearly before our eyes the fact or the theory that the normal householder, the normal taxpayer, will possess one of these units.
In our Latin documents a third part of a knight's fee will be, not tertia pars feodi unius militis, but far more commonly, feodum tertiae partis unius militis.
Latined it by corium, and not by terra unius familiae (manentis etc.
One of the company asked him the meaning of the expression in Juvenal, unius lacertæ.
Ennius poeta Tarenti [an error] nascitur, qui a Catone quaestore Romam translatus habitavit in monte Aventino, parco admodum sumptu contentus, et uniusancillae ministerio.
Every person a little conversant with Domesday knows the firmae unius noctis, at which some of the royal manors were assessed[669].
The Recluse FELIX, qui propriis aeuum transegit in aruis, ipsa domus puerum quem uidet, ipsa senem, qui baculo nitens in qua reptauit harena unius numerat saecula longa casae.
God gefe hym grace of holsom councell, and of a gode disposicion; non est opus unius diei, nec unius septimanae.
We can best trace this parallel in Somerset, because the firma unius noctis of the days before the Conquest had been there commuted for a money payment at the time of Domesday.
The right formula for that would be 'reddit firmam unius noctis' (p.
Here are the Somerset groups of demesne, each charged with the render of a firma unius noctis.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unius" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
