請しょう

noun

request; invitation

Archaic noun for a request or invitation; not used in modern everyday speech.

• 古ふるい文ぶん書しょには「請しょう」を「しょう」と読よんで依い頼らいの意い味みで使つかう例れいが見みられる。

  In old documents, one can find examples where 請 is read as しょう and used to mean a request.

noun

legal privilege for high-ranking nobles (ritsuryō system)

Historical legal term from the ritsuryō system; a privilege granted to nobles of the fifth rank or above in criminal proceedings.

• 律りつ令りょう制せいでは、五ご位い以い上じょうの貴き族ぞくに「請しょう」の特とっ権けんが認みとめられていた。

  Under the ritsuryō system, nobles of the fifth rank and above were granted the privilege of 請.