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▪ I. merge, n. rare.|mɜːdʒ|
[f. the vb.]
An act or instance of merging.
1805Foster Ess. i. vii. (1806) 101 In him it was no debility of reason, it was at the utmost but a merge of it. 1905Pall Mall G. 24 Apr. 3/2 The first barony of Pelham..merged in the Dukedom of Newcastle... The ‘merges’ of the 1611 baronetcy, Pelham of Laughton, have been many.
▪ II. merge, v.|mɜːdʒ|
[ad. L. mergĕre to dip, plunge. The surviving uses (senses 2 and 3) come through Law Fr. merger, earlier translated ‘drown’ (see drown v. 6 b).]
†1.
a. trans. To plunge or sink in a (specified) activity, way of living, environment, etc.; to immerse. (In quots. refl. and pass.) Obs.
1636Prynne Unbish. Timothy 134 [They] merge themselves in pleasures, idlenesse, or secular affaires. 1637― Brev. Prelates 64 Thomas Woolsie..wholly merged himselfe in secular offices and state affairs. 1751Harris Hermes iii. iv. (1765) 350 The Vulgar merged in Sense from their earliest Infancy,..imagine nothing to be real, but what may be tasted or touched.
¶b. rarely lit.: To plunge or dip in a liquid.
1866J. M. Neale Hymns Paradise (ed. 2) 30 All his spite the Tempter urges; Casts in fire, in water merges [L. aquis mergit]. 1866J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Fasti v. 754 So Tiber said, And in his grotto merged his dripping head.
2. In Law: To sink or extinguish (a lesser estate, title, etc.) in one which is greater or superior. Hence gen., to cause (something) to be absorbed into something else, so as to lose its own character or identity; to sink or make to disappear.
a. Const. in, occas. into.
1728[see merger1 1]. 1729Jacob Law Dict. s. v. Merger, An Estate-tail cannot be merged in an Estate in Fee. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. 177 Whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate, the less is immediately annihilated; or, in the law phrase, is said to be merged, that is, sunk or drowned, in the greater. 1791Burke Let. Memb. Nat. Assemb. Wks. 1792 III. 346 Their object is to merge all natural and all social sentiment in inordinate vanity. 1842H. Rogers Ess. (1874) I. i. 36 He is content to merge his historic character in that of a retailer of amusing oddities. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. vii. 81 These shelves, though sometimes merged into each other, presented distinct and recognisable embankments. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola xix, That..his library..should not be merged in another collection. 1866Crump Banking i. 7 This business he merged into a banking-house. 1868Stanley Westm. Abb. vi. (ed. 2) 447 The diocese, after ten years, was merged in the See of London. 1874Green Short Hist. ii. §3. 68 The same forces which merged the Dane in the Englishman.
b. Without const.
1729Jacob Law Dict. s. v. Merger, Where a Man hath a Term in his own Right, and the Inheritance descends to his Wife, so as he hath a Freehold in her Right; the Term is not merged or drowned. 1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 202 The ornaments may..lose their own effect by being attached to a building which, by exciting stronger emotions, necessarily merges the less. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) I. 380 The estate of the copyholder being only at will, becomes merged by the accession of any greater estate. 1832Coleridge Table-T. 19 Aug., That is the most excellent state of society in which the patriotism of the citizen ennobles, but does not merge, the individual energy of the man. 1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. iii. 98 None would pretend that..individual fitness for the office..should be so merged as is implied in adapting the hereditary principle to the clerical order. 1845Stephen Comm. Laws Eng. (1874) II. 58 The contract by specialty merges or extinguishes that by parol.
3. a. intr. In Law: To be extinguished by absorption in a greater title, estate, etc. Hence gen., to sink and disappear, to be swallowed up and lost to view, lose character or identity by absorption into something else. Const. in, into.
1726Vernon Chanc. Cases I. 22 If a Copyholder pays a Rent to the Lord, and the Lord grants or releases this Rent to his Tenant, this shall Merge in the Copyhold. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. xii. 186 If an estate is originally limited to two for life, and after to the heirs of one of them, the freehold shall remain in jointure, without merging in the inheritance. 1802Sir Wm. Scott Sp. April 27 He is to take care..that the ecclesiastic shall not merge in the farmer, but shall continue the presiding and predominating character. 1814Chalmers Evid. Chr. Revel. v. 128 The Jews..merge into the name and distinction of Christians. 1841J. R. Young Math. Dissert. ii. 37 These roots can never merge into one and coincide. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 13 Serfdom had merged or was rapidly merging into free servitude. 1858Ld. St. Leonards Handy-Bk. Prop. Law ix. 62 The tax has merged, and does not remain as a charge of which you can avail yourself. 1859Mill Liberty ii. (1865) 31 But this, though an important consideration,..merges in a more fundamental objection. 1894Times 16 Apr. 3/3 That was..an indication that the cause of action had not merged.
b. Of firms or trading companies: to combine or amalgamate; to combine with another.
1926Office Appliances Feb. 49/1 With regard to merger reports..two propositions had been received—one to sell out; the other to merge with another company. 1930J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement ii. 54 That's the way things are going all the time now,..big combinations—merging away till you don't know where you are. 1965Newman & Logan Business Policies & Cent. Managem. (ed. 5) xiv. 353 Poor health or old age makes them [sc. large stockholders] willing to merge at an attractive price. 1965J. F. Bradley Administrative Financial Managem. xxviii. 577 If Company A and Company B are to merge, Company A might take over Company B.
Hence merged ppl. a.; ˈmerging vbl. n.
1839J. Yeowell Anc. Brit. Ch. viii. (1847) 77 It was the merging the individual in the corporate character. 1880J. Caird Philos. Relig. 278 This absolute merging of the individual in the universal life. 1965Newman & Logan Business Policies & Cent. Managem. (ed. 5) xiv. 356 The character and the operating policy of the merged firms may differ..sharply. |