See Also: comburgess(dictionary)

comburgess (iou)



comburgess noun. LME.
[from COM- + BURGESS noun, after medieval Latin comburgensis.]
Hist.
A fellow citizen or freeman of a borough; a fellow burgess. LME.
In certain English boroughs, up to 1835: any of the municipal magistrates chosen by and from among their fellow burgesses, and associated with the alderman. M17.