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† mountenance Obs.
Forms: 3–4 montenance, 4–6 mountenaunce, 5 mowntenawnce, -awns, 5–7 mountenance.
[App. a corruption of mountance, assimilated to maintenance.]
Amount in extent, quantity, or value.
a1300Cursor M. 29166 Þai sal eiþer for þair foly bren in þe fier of purgatori, to þe montenance o þat plight, agh for þat sin was here to right. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. ix. (Skeat) 49 As farre in a moment, as in mountenaunce of ten Winter. c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 26 Take powder þo mountenaunce of a pownde. 1579Baker Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. 30 The gaule..conteyneth peradventure a glasse ful, or the mountenaunce of a Viole. 1674J. Josselyn Voy. New Eng. 130 They satisfie themselves with a small quantity of meal,..which taken to the mountenance of a Bean would satisfie both thirst and hunger.
b. Total quantity, mass.
1615Crooke Body of Man 35 The third Region comprehendeth the Muscles, Membranes, Bones, and in a word, all the Moles or mountenance of the body. |