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defrayment|dɪˈfreɪmənt|
[a. OF. deffrayement (desfroiement), f. deffrayer to defray: see -ment.]
The action or fact of defraying: †a. Expenditure. Obs. b. Payment of expenses or charges, discharge of pecuniary obligations.
1547Privy Council Acts (1890) II. 135 Mmmli...towardes defrayment of the charges of his Majeste. 1579Fenton Guicciard. ix. (1599) 388 To pay within a certaine time for all defrayments, twentie thousand duckets. 1611Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xiii. §85 [To pay..] toward the defraiment of the Dukes huge charges. 1620Shelton Quix. iv. 7 (T.) Let the traitor pay, with his life's defrayment, that which he attempted with so lascivious a desire. 1656Earl of Monmouth Advt. fr. Parnass. 354 If we were not fed by the free defrayment of our Cornucopia. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. V. 541 Applied for the defrayment of the electoral council colleges. 1884Sir C. S. C. Bowen in Law Reports 13 Q. Bench Div. 91 Part of the disbursements consisted in the defrayment of these expenses. |