Obs. Erroneously used by Caxton to render F. tertre, a rising ground, hill, or eminence.
c. 1477. Caxton, Jason, 70 b. We shal enhabite with peple the lowe montaignes & the territoires. Ibid. (1481), Godeffroy, xxi. 53. They … began to reassemble, and gadred them to gydre on a territorie. Ibid., clviii. 233. Archys is a Cyte of the lande of Fenyce, and standeth atte foote of a montayne named Lybane, in a tereitorye moche stronge.
