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quinzième
(F. kɛ̃zjɛm)
Forms: 5 quynz(i)eme, -zyeme, -sym(e, quinzeme, -zi(s)me, -zyme, 5–6 quinsime, 6 -siem, -ziesme, 7 -siesme, 8 -zieme, 9 -zième.
[a. AF. quinzisme, -zime, -zieme (mod.F. quinzième), ordinal f. quinze fifteen: cf. quindecim. In sense 3 substituted for quinseine quinzaine.]
1. A tax or duty of a fifteenth. Now only Hist.
1429Rolls Parlt. IV. 336/2 Graunt to you our..Lord the Kyng..an hole Quinszisme, and an hole Disme. c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. xii. (1885) 140 When the reaume gaff to thair kyng a quinsime and a desime quinqueniale. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. clviii. 140 A quinzeme of goodes were graunted for the newe chartres. 1559in Strype Ann. Ref. (1824) I. ii. App. viii. 427 The clergie chardged with quinsiems and other payements. a1577Sir T. Smith Commw. Eng. (1633) 145 Incident acquisitions, bee they rents customes tenths quinziesmes taxes [etc.]. 1777Ann. Reg. ii. 41 The clergy had compounded for a tax called the quinzieme or fifteenth penny. 1891Q. Rev. Oct. 111 It paid the highest quinzième of any port except London.
†2. The fifteenth (= fourteenth) day after a church festival; = quindene. Obs.
1433Rolls Parlt. IV. 420/2 Bytwix this and the Quinszisme of Seint Michell next. c1450Merlin 374 This was the quynsyme after Pentecoste. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxvi. 232 At his parlement holden at Westmynstre the quynzeme of Paske.
†3. A period of fifteen days; spec. the day of a church festival and the two weeks following. Obs.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. x. (1869) 146, I selle it bi dayes and bi wookes, bi vtases and bi quinzimes, bi monethes, and bi yeeres al hol. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. lxiii. 47 Tho two bretheren of Constance shall come byfore a quynzieme passed. |