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▪ I. † ˈtantamount, n. Obs.
Also 7 tant amount, tantamont, 8 tant'amount.
[app. from tantamount v.; perh. influenced by amount n. beside amount vb.]
That which amounts to as much, or comes to the same thing; something equivalent (to); an equivalent.
1637Heylin Brief Answ. 26 You come very neare it, to a tantamont. 1641Prynne Disc. Prel. Tyr. ii. 216 He pronounced no particular sentence..but he did tant amount or more. 1642W. Price Serm. 40 Anger, and rancored envy, which..are a Tantamount to murder. 1646Bp. Maxwell Burd. Issach. 41 Letters of caption (that is..the tant'amount of the Writ De Excommunicato capiendo).
▪ II. tantamount, a.|ˈtæntəmaʊnt|
Also 7 tant a mount, tanta-mount, tantamont, 7–8 tant'amount.
[app. from the n. The earlier quots. under a. are scarcely distinguishable from quot. 1641 in the n. Perh. influenced by paramount.]
As much; that amounts to as much, that comes to the same thing; of the same amount; equivalent. †a. In predicate without construction. Obs.
1641O. St. John Argument of Law, etc. 24 If a man take the broad Seale from one Pattent, and put it to another, here he is counterfeiting, it's tantamount, and therefore Treason. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. xv. 80 Conjunction, Opposition, and Quadrate go for Tant-amount in the Meteorological Part. 1769Burke Corr. (1844) I. 169 Provided instructions (or thanks, which are tantamount but more respectful,) should be the mode proposed. 1826Southey Vind. Eccl. Angl. 224 You..avoid the word, and speak of the Real Presence, as if the terms were tantamount.
†b. Const. as, with. Obs.
1644Bp. Maxwell Prerog. Chr. Kings 10 Howsoever their tenets by deductions and consequences are tant'amount as theirs. 1644J. Goodwin Innoc. & Truth Triumph. (1645) 11, I utterly renounce the consequence, conceiving it to be tantamont with an absolute mistake. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth i. 256 For this is tantamount with the former. a1692H. Pollexfen Disc. Trade (1697) 57 Tant a mount, as if carried from us in Money.
c. Const. to. The current use.
1652Heylin Cosmogr. Introd. 7 That saying of Berosus will prove tantamont to a Text of Scripture. 1659― Certamen Epist. 389 They are tantamount to a plain acknowledgement. a1692H. Pollexfen Disc. Trade (1697) 93 They..laid such Impositions on our Woolen Goods, as was tant a mount to a Prohibition. 1777J. Lovell in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) I. 411 Is not this..tantamount to a disavowal of the first treaty? 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. i. §18 Is not this tantamount to saying that they go on by a force of their own?
d. attributively. rare.
1692Bp. Patrick Answ. Touchstone 17 Giving us express Words, and not words Tantamount. 1798Washington Let. Writ. 1893 XIV. 29 The President; to whom I have expressed tantamount sentiments in more concise terms. 1868Rogers Pol. Econ. i. (1876) 3 A tantamount service should be given in exchange for them.
▪ III. † ˈtantamount, v. Obs.
Also 7 tant amount, tant-amount, tant'amount.
[a. AF. tant amunter, or perh. (in 17th c.) ad. It. tanto montare to amount to as much.
Cf.1292Year-bk. Trin. 20 Edw. I (Rolls) 31 Tant amunte qe Adam neyt pas plus procheyn heyr. 1303Year-bk. Mich. 31 Edw. I 335 Herle dist..qe tant amunte qil ne entra pas dans soun baroun.]
1. intr. To amount to as much, to come to the same thing; to be or become equivalent. Const. to or unto (something).
1628Coke On Litt. i. i. §i. 10 They doe tant amount to a feoffment or grant. Ibid. 391 It ought to be pardoned specially, or by words which tant amount. 1642Jer. Taylor Episc. ix. (1647) 36 Yet this will not tant'-amount to an immediate Divine institution for Deacons. 1659Fuller App. Inj. Innoc. iii. 7 His not denying tant-amounteth to the affirming of the matter. 1699Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) a vij, Those Things..which may tantamount to more than an hundred times its Value. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 211 Tant-amounting, in a more reform'd Perfection, to the different Religious Orders.
2. trans. To amount or come up to (something); to equal.
1659T. Pecke Parnassi Puerp. 132 Account Hercules Labours; they Twelve tantamount. 1683Vind. Case relating to Green-Wax-Fines 65 Your peaceable Subjects..whose indearment in that Case will tant-amount the Profits falling short.
Hence † ˈtantamounting ppl. a. (obs. rare—0); whence † ˈtantaˌmountingly adv., ‘equivalently, in effect’ (Davies).
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. ii. §28 Did it not deserve the Stab of Excommunication, for any dissenting from her practice, tantamountingly to give her the Lie? |