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† ˈbrokage, brocage Obs.
Also 5 brochage, 6 broc-, brok-, broakadge, 6–7 broakage, brokeage.
[In AFr. brocage, also brogage, in same sense: see broker.]
The following meanings are given in dictionaries, or indicated in some of the quotations: in many of the latter the exact sense cannot be fixed, so that they are not here separated. In most cases the word has an ill favour, cf. ‘jobbery’.
1. a. The trade of a broker; the transaction of commercial business, as buying and selling, for other men. b. The premium or commission of a broker, brokerage; the gain or profit derived from acting as agent, middleman, or intermediary. c. The corrupt farming or jobbing of offices; the price or bribe paid unlawfully for any office or place of trust; frequently mentioned as an abuse in early times. d. Trafficking in match-making, in the marriage of wards, etc. e. Procuracy in immorality, pimping. f. ‘The trade of dealing in old things, the trade of a broker’ (J.).
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiv. 267 A mayden þat is maried þorw brokage..bi assent of sondry partyes and syluer to bote. c1383Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 280 Symonyentis in beneficis..bi brocage maade to mene persones for to haue ony beneficis of þe chirche. c1386Chaucer Miller's T. 189 He woweth hire by meenes and brocage. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. iii. 92 Vserye and Auerice, and oþer false sleithes In bargeyns and in brocages. c1440Rom. Rose 6973, I entremet me of brocages, I make peace and mariages. 1456in Rel. Ant. II. 239 Now brocage ys made offycerys, And baratur ys made bayly. c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. xiv. (1885) 144 Nor thai [Suytours] shall be importunite or brocage optayne any vnresonable desires. 1555Fardle Facions i. v. 50 Their women in old tyme, had all the trade of occupiying, and brokage abrode. 1584Whetstone Mirror for Mag. 31 An other sort by brocadge bringeth him in debt. 1577Hellowes Gueuara's Ep. 125 To ryse to it by brokage or corruption. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Ded., It served well Pandares purpose for the bolstering of his bawdie brocage. 1591― M. Hubberd 851 Shameles flatterie, And filthie brocage, and unseemly shifts. 1600Rowlands Lett. Humours Blood ii. 55 Vserie sure is requisite and good, And so is Brokeage, rightly vnderstood. 1603Florio Montaigne (1634) 489 By the brokage or panderizing of the lawes. 1611Beaum. & Fl. Philaster v. iii, If a man had need to use their valours, he must pay a brokage for it. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 148 Their occupations, brocage and vsury. 1618Barnevelt's Apol. C iv b, Our last borrowed money is at 16, and three in the hundreth for brokeage. a1618Sylvester St. Lewis 448 That after-Judges..From Bribes and Brokeage might be warned fair. 1623Favine Theat. Hon. vii. i. 198 By the base brokage and close contriuing of the Queene. 1644Bulwer Chirol. 4 Without the crafty Brocage of the Tongue. 1648C. Walker Hist. & Pol. Relat. 11 The Parliament payes 30000l. Broakage. 1656J. Harrington Oceana (1700) 110 Find better preferments without his Brocage. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 428 Though the Crown is forced to pawn all its own Jewels to them for mere Brokage. 1683D. Smith Constantinople in Misc. Cur. (1708) III. 38 They [Jews] are of great use and service to the Turks, upon accompt of their Brocage and Merchandise. 1755Carte Hist. Eng. IV. 78 Not a fitting thing for a clergyman to be concerned in a brocage of such a nature.
2. Comb., as brokage-money.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Corretage, broakage money. |