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Guild   /gɪld/   Listen
noun
Guild  n.  
1.
An association of men belonging to the same class, or engaged in kindred pursuits, formed for mutual aid and protection; a business fraternity or corporation; as, the Stationers' Guild; the Ironmongers' Guild. They were originally licensed by the government, and endowed with special privileges and authority.
2.
A guildhall. (Obs.)
3.
A religious association or society, organized for charitable purposes or for assistance in parish work.





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... avenues, fountains, and a Mount of Venus within a labyrinth; twelve miles of wall encircled the park, and the soldiers of Cromwell found fine foraging-ground in it, when they entered upon the premises a few years later. The schoolmaster-king formed also a guild of gardeners in the city of London, at whose hands certificates of capacity for garden-work were demanded, and these to be given only after proper examination of the applicants. Lord Bacon possessed a beautiful garden, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 • Various
... and other occupations in which the worker owns his own tools, and is worker, manager and business-man combined, would be forced to organize a local unit more nearly approximating the medieval guild or some of the modern organizations for producers' co-operation. The general principles of organization would be the same in the one case as in the other, power and control being held locally by self-directing, ...
— The Next Step - A Plan for Economic World Federation • Scott Nearing
... much and mixed too freely with the kind of disreputable people he loved to paint, but he never became so degraded that his hand lost its cunning, or his eye its keen vision for that which he wished to portray. In 1644, he was made a director of the Guild of St. Lucas, an institution for the protection of arts and crafts in Haarlem, but from that time onward he sank in popular esteem, deservedly. He fell into debt, then into pauperism, and when he died, about the age of eighty-six, he was buried at public expense in the ...
— Pictures Every Child Should Know • Dolores Bacon
... indomitable pride and exultation of her youth, came back upon her in one great lifting wave. The depression of her father's repentances and trepidations fell away; she felt herself in her place, under the shelter of her forefathers, incorporated and redeemed, as it were, into their guild of honour. ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... side issue. But I belong to the guild. He who has joined it may have the ambition to write wittily or well. All that goes beyond ...
— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various


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