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† contributary, a. and n. Obs.|kənˈtrɪbjuːtərɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ary, after tributary. Cf. F. contributaire. A form parallel to contributory, which is now in ordinary use.]
A. adj.
1. That contributes or is liable to contribute; † paying tribute, tributary.
c1386Chaucer Monk's T. 686 (Harl. MS.) Iulius þe conquerour That wan al thoccident by land and see..And vnto Rome made hem contributarie [6-text tributarie]. 1463Bury Wills (1850) 29 Who so euere be ocupyere of my hefd place to be contributarye therto what so euer it coste. 1560in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 278 Every man..shall become contrybutary to an hird yn Port Meade. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 355 The landes contributarie to the repaire thereof. 1649Selden Laws Eng. i. liv. (1739) 95 Kings having taken occasion to levy War of their own accord..could neither compel the persons of their Subjects or their Estates to be contributary.
2. Contributing anything to a common stock; having part in a common result.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. vii. (1593) 158 Penees and Sperchius streames contributarie were. 1681Whole Duty Nations 56 Such things, so far as they may be any way contributary to good. 1775–91tr. D'Anville's Anc. Geog. (Webster), It was situated on the Ganges, at the place where this river received a contributary stream. 1801W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XI. 648 This edition is distinguished..by the curious extent of contributary reading.
B. n. One who contributes; one who pays tribute.
1570Dee Math. Pref. 33 Pythagoras..and many other (in certaine thinges) will be Contributaries. 1598–9E. Forde Parismus i. (1661) 51 The king of Persia..having called all his contributaries together. 1600Holland Livy xxvii. xi. 635 Those all they disfranchised, and made Aerarij, or contributaries. |