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▪ I. † renvoy, n. Obs.
Also 7 -voie.
[a. F. renvoi, † renvoy (15th c.), vbl. n. f. renvoyer: see next.]
1. The act of sending back; discharge, dismissal.
1600Holland Livy xxxvii. xxxi. 963 When he had rewarded the Rhodian ships with part of the pillage,..he gaue them the renvoie, and sent them home. c1645Howell Lett. v. iii. (1655) I. 199 This rupture 'twixt us and France upon the sudden renvoy of her Majesties servants. 1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 61 King Charles is taxed for violating the Matrimonial Pact by the Renvoy and discarding of the Queens Domestiques.
2. A reference to a book or passage. rare—1.
1650in Athenæum 13 Dec. (1879) 763/2 To which he makes his Marginall Renvoys.
▪ II. † renvoy, v. Obs. rare.
[ad. F. renvoyer (12th c.), f. re- re- + envoyer: see envoy n.1]
trans. To send back.
c1477Caxton Jason 54 b, Wherfore he renuoyed and sente agayn the knight unto the grekes. 1539Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) II. 229, I doo Renvoye the said palmer thither agayn. 1622Bacon Hen. VII (1876) 79 He did continue in his court and custody the daughter of Maximilian,..not dismissing or renvoying her. |