寺てら預あずけ

noun

temple confinement as punishment

Historical practice, common in the late Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods, where a criminal was placed in the custody of a temple as a form of punishment. Compare with 寺入り (sense 2).

See also: 寺入り

• 戦せん国ごく時じ代だいには、罪ざい人にんを寺てら預あずけにすることがあった。

  During the Sengoku period, criminals were sometimes placed in temple confinement.

• 寺てら預あずけは、一いっ種しゅの自じ由ゆう刑けいとして機き能のうしていた。

  Temple confinement functioned as a kind of custodial sentence.