Obs. Also terre-. [ad. F. territoire.] = TERRITORY1; land.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 115. That it be nocht our [= over] hye set,… or in our harde dry territoire, or our myry erde.
1547. Aberdeen Regr. (1844), I. 250. The terretour of the est part of the said burgh.
1589. Fleming, Virg. Georg., II. 24. Cæsar Who … Doost turne away th’ vnwarlike Inde from territors of Rome.
1606. Holland, Sueton., Annot. 21. The Inhabitants of it, and the territour there about.
