[f. BURGHER + -SHIP.] The rights and privileges of a burgher.
1725. trans. Dupin’s Eccl. Hist. 16th C., I. v. 188. Who had lost their Burghership for some great Crimes.
1871. Freeman, Norm. Conq., IV. xviii. 209. The rights both of burghership and clanship were strictly enforced.
b. fig. (cf. BURGESS-SHIP 1 b).
1568. Coverdale, Bk. Death (‘transl. out of High Dutch’), xvi. (1579), 69. Our conuersation and burgership is in heauen.
