Now Hist. [ad. med.L. solidāta (terræ), f. solid-us SOLIDUS1.] A piece of land of the annual value of a solidus or shilling.
1610. W. Folkingham, Art of Survey, II. vii. 58. There be also other quantities of Land taking their denominations from our vsual Coine; as … Obolates, Denariates, Solidates. Ibid., 59. Then must the Obolat be 1/2 Acre, the Denariat an Acre, the Solidat 12. acres.
1845. Nicolas, Mem. Chaucer, in C.’s Wks., I. 31. On the 28th of December 1375 the King granted Chaucer the custody of five ‘solidates’ of rent in Solys in Kent.
1882. Proc. Berwick. Nat. Club, IX. 469. Its master held a hundred solidates of land in pure alms.
