† chevisancen.¹

Forms: Middle English chevisans, chevicaunce, chewisance, chefesaunce, chyvesaunce, chevyssauns, Middle English chevissaunce, chevissance, Middle English–1500s chevysaunce, chevysance, chevesance, chevesaunce, Middle English–1600s, 1800s chevisaunce, chevisance, Middle English ( cheysaunce, chevysshaunce), chevesauns, chevyshaunce, chevyshance, (1600s chevisancie).

Etymology: < Old French chevisance, chevissance, < chevissant , present participle of chevir : see chevise v.

Obsolete.

I. Senses relating to achievement or supply.

1. A bringing to an end or issue; issue, end.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > completing > [noun]

enda1300

chevisancec1330

applyinga1382

perfectiona1382

pointc1385

finishmentc1400

accomplishingc1405

complement1419

consummationa1425

effecta1425

performinga1425

accomplishment1425

fining?1448

complishing1449

complishment1454

achevisauncec1475

achievement1477

perfectinga1513

cheving?1518

furniture1529

achievance1531

exploiture1531

exploiting1538

perimplishment1554

consummating1555

finishing?1563

chevance1570

coronation1582

crowning1586

adimpletion1624

fulfilment1624

complusmenta1628

completure1642

completement1652

transaction1655

patration1656

perfunction1656

completion1657

completing1727

ultimation1791

finality1833

perfectuation1859

fruition1885

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 105 Whan Henry herd telle þis of þat gode cheuysance.

c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) lx. 248 Shamide that he ne wiste what chevisaunce he myght make.

2. Furtherance; help, assistance rendered.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [noun]

fultumeOE

help971

succour?c1225

abetc1330

succouringc1330

speedc1340

subsidya1387

rescousc1390

chevisancea1400

juvamentc1400

supply1420

aid1430

favour1434

supplying1436

suffrage1445

availa1450

boteningc1450

succurrancec1450

adjuvancea1460

assistance1495

meeda1500

subventiona1500

suppliancea1500

adjutory?a1513

sistancea1513

adminiculation1531

abetment1533

assisting1553

adjument1576

society1586

aidance1593

opitulation1598

secourse1598

second1605

suppeditation1605

assistency1642

auxiliation1657

adjutancy1665

adjuvancy1677

abettal1834

sustenance1839

constructiveness1882

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 6978 Na folk þaim miht wid-stand..Quilis þai wid þaim had goddes cheuisans.

a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 4911 Yf a man..Of his gode yeve you a gode substaunce, Kunneth hym thanke of his goode chevysaunce.

3. Resource, remedy, means of helping or extricating oneself, shift; also, expedient, device, shiftiness.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > recourse > [noun] > that to which one has recourse

chevisancec1330

recoursec1405

resorta1413

refugec1425

shift1523

rescours1533

reserve1644

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > available means or a resource

boota1225

chevisancec1330

shift1523

a help at maw1592

resource1665

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > available means or a resource > a device, contrivance, or expedient

costOE

craftOE

custc1275

ginc1275

devicec1290

enginec1300

quaintisec1300

contrevurec1330

castc1340

knackc1369

findinga1382

wilea1400

conject14..

skiftc1400

policy?1406

subtilityc1410

policec1450

conjecturea1464

industry1477

invention1516

cunning1526

shift1530

compass1540

chevisance1548

trade1550

tour1558

fashion1562

invent?1567

expediment1571

trick1573

ingeny1588

machine1595

lock1598

contrival1602

contrivement1611

artifice1620

recipea1643

ingenuity1651

expedient1653

contrivance1661

excogitation1664

mechanism1669

expediency1683

stroke1699

spell1728

management1736

manoeuvre1769

move1794

wrinkle1817

dodge1842

jigamaree1847

quiff1881

kink1889

lurk1916

gadget1920

fastie1931

ploy1940

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 181 If þe Soudan ros opon Philip of France, & I wer þan in clos withouten cheuisance.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxiii. 16 Þauh he..can no betere cheuesaunce, Neode nymeþ hym a-non vnder his maynpryse.

1440 Protest Dk. Gloucester in Rymer Fœdera (1710) X. 766 Yf..my said Lord can find noon other meen or chevesaunce to keep ony part.

c1470 J. Hardyng Chron. iv. iii Eche daye they made wyttye cheuesaunce, To helpe them selfe at their necessitee.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iii. 104 The foreste is soo grete, that they shall fynde some cheuysaunce.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 267/1 Schyfte, chevesaunce, cheuesance.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xlvij^v His craftie cheuesaunce tooke none effect in Brytayne.

1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 39 Violated by Leger du main, or chevisance of wit.

4. Contribution to the supply of any want; provision; supply.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > supply > [noun]

provisiona1325

warnison1338

chevisance138.

subministrationa1425

financec1475

suppliancea1500

supply?a1513

supplement1544

furnishment1563

furnish1633

plenishment1823

provisionment1827

resourcing1917

138. J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 382 What chefesaunce & costis þe clergi makiþ.

1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare i. 89 There was then neither suche number of Aultares, nor suche cheuisance of Masses, as hath beene sithence.

5. Provision of what is wanted for life; concrete provisions, substance.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > of something needed > of what is wanted for life

chevisancec1385

the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > that which is supplied > supplies

warnestorea1300

astorec1330

chevisancec1385

weala1400

supply1510

supply1512

furniture1549

furnishments1559

loana1578

suppeditaments1599

foisona1616

store1636

wanigan1889

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Phyllis Hys wyse folke conseyle han hym yeven..To..make in that londe somme chevissaunce, And kepen hym fro woo.

1436 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) II. 169 Thus moste rude ware be in here chevesaunce.

1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 402 He gat schippyne gud plente And wittalis in gret aboundance. Sa maid he nobill chewisance.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 29 The store-house of Sunnes cheuisance... Oceanus.

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxiii. iii. 221 A strong towne of defence, and for rich chevisance and quicke traffique a most delectable place.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bien, wealth, substance, chevisance, riches, possessions.

6. Booty.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > spoil or plunder

reifOE

fang1016

fengc1175

purchasec1325

predec1330

robberyc1330

robbingsc1330

spoila1340

spoila1382

chevisance1393

waitha1400

fee14..

pilferc1400

pelfa1425

spreathc1425

butinc1450

emprisec1450

gain1473

despoil1474

pelfry?a1475

pilfery1489

spulyie1507

cheat1566

bootinga1572

booty1574

escheat1587

boot1598

exuvial1632

bootyn1635

polling1675

expilation1715

prog1727

swag1794

filch1798

spreaghery1814

stake1819

1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 332 As a thefe maketh his chevesance And robbeth mennes goodes about.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1390 Tas yow þere my cheuicaunce, I cheued no more.

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Gii When we w^t magnyfycence goodys made cheuysaunce.

1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Fv For him they might not slee whom they wolde and make what cheuysaunce they lusted.

a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 149 [They] carried their pillage..to places of safety..and full of gladnesse for their chevisance, did then come again to fetch more.

II. spec. The providing or raising of funds.

a. Regarded as the action of the borrower: Raising of money by some expedient, esp. on some surety or pledge; borrowing. to make a chevisance: to contract a loan; to pledge or pawn anything for ready money.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > [noun] > on security

chevisancec1386

chevance1538

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > borrow money [verb (intransitive)] > on security

to make a chevisancec1386

chevisea1513

to make chevance1538

to draw against ——1849

c1386 G. Chaucer Shipman's Tale 329 Chaffare is so dere, That nedes must he make a chevisance, For he was bonde in a recognisance, To payen twenty thousand sheldes anon.

1461 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 391 I kowd make non othyre cheysaunce but I schuld a boruyd it of a strange man.

a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 113 For he [sc. Richd. I] purposed to go to þe Holy Lond, and must make cheuesauns for mech mony, he sent aftir þe kyng of Scottis.

1474 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 476 And as for the forte c mark..he wolde, rather than joparte sholde be, purvey it by weye off chevyshaunce at London, jn so meche þat..he had for my sake leyde v c markys worthe off plate wyth Hewghe Fenne.

1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Fvii The old Pope had none auctoryte to make anye soch cheuisaunce with saynt Peters enheritaunce: he coude but haue the vse of it his lyfelonge.

b. Resource or shift to get money, way of ‘raising the needful’. (Always in a bad sense.)

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun]

winninga1300

purchasec1325

lucrec1380

chevisancea1400

framing1440

lucring1574

lucrifaction1606

lucration1658

money-making1785

realization1799

money getting1836

capital formation1889

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > a wile or cunning device > for raising money

chevisancea1400

a1400 Cov. Myst. xxv. 243 A beggerys dowtere..To cownterfete a jentylwoman..And yf mony lakke, this is the new chevesauns With here prevy plesawns to gett it of sum man.

?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. D If he shame to begge,..Then torneth he to fraude, and crafty cheuesaunce Of all men borowynge on suertie, othe or seale.

1545 Act 37 Hen. VIII c. 9 Preamble Punyshment of Usurye..and of other corrupte bargaynes, shiftes and chevisances.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xviii. 30 Pasturage was before tillage, or fishing or fowling, or any other predatory art or cheuisance.

c. Merchandise, gain (in a bad sense); esp. in to make chevisance of: to make merchandise, profit, or gain of.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun]

earningeOE

issuea1325

lucrec1380

lucre of gainc1386

return1419

feracityc1420

revenue1427

vantagec1430

afframing1440

revenue1440

availc1449

proventc1451

provenuec1487

rent1513

fardel1523

chevisance1535

gains1546

commodity1577

proceed1578

increasal1601

benefit1606

endowment1615

gaininga1631

superlucration1683

profit1697

bunce1706

making1837

bunt1851

plunder1851

yield1877

recovery1931

earner1970

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > be profitable to > make profit by

to make money1457

to make a (good, etc.) penny of, by, from1464

to make chevisance of1535

to make a (also one's) hand(s)1538

to make a good thing of (also out of)1800

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. xxi. 14 Then shalt thou let her go whither she wyll, and not to sell her, nor to make cheuesaunce of her.

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. vii. 161 The parentes brought to niedinesse, vse there to make cheuisaunce of their doughters bodies.

?1577 F. T. Debate Pride & Lowlines sig. Dv Others for they mak of it cheuisaunce: And to commaund, and haue the world at wyll.

1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Cheuisance, merchandise, bargaining.

1623–6 in Cockeram

8. Regarded as the action of the lender: The furnishing of funds, money-lending on security. Also, apparently The lending of goods, etc., for profit; and sometimes, merely, Dealing for profit.Apparently commonly applied in 15–16th centuries to some device by which the statutes against usury were evaded.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > lending money on security

chevisance1377

chevisancing1586

broking?1593

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 249 Eschaunges and cheuesaunces With suche chaffare I dele.

138. J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 88 Marchauntis by usure under colour of treuþe þat þei clepyn chevysaunce.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 252 Þat chaffared with my chyuesaunce, cheuede selde after.

c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 284 So estaatly was he of his gouernaunce With his bargaynes, and w^t his cheuysaunce.

c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1714) 33 Usury and Chevesaunce, incresith the Povertie of hym that borowyth.

1487 Act 3 Hen. VII c. 6 §3 Ordyned..that all unlefull Chevysaunces and Usurye be dampned, and none to be used, upon payne of forfeyture of the Value of the Money or Goodez so chevysched or lent.

1570 Act 13 Eliz. c. 5 Couenous and fraudulent Feoffements..Conueyances, Bonds..to the overthrow of all true and plain dealing, bargaining and chevisance between man and man.

1570 Act 13 Eliz. (Who is a Bankrupt) c. 7 Any..Person..using the Trade of Merchandize by way of Bargaining, Exchange, Rechange, Bartry, Chevisance or otherwise.

1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 74 Pitie, that any such knack of knauerie, or couenous chevisance..should..ouerthrow..any well gouerned.. state.

1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law ii. 48 It is held to be simonie, and corrupt cheuisance, if any valuable consideration be giuen in such regard pacto, vel facto.

1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 56

1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. xxxi. ]

9. By confusion with chevance, chivalry, chevauchee, etc.: Enterprise, performance; chivalrous enterprise or achievement; expedition on horseback; chivalry; prowess, etc.‘Spenser app. misunderstood some passage in Gower or other old writer: modern archaists have in turn misunderstood Spenser.’ ( N.E.D.)

ΚΠ

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 92 They maken many a wrong cheuisaunce [gloss., Cheuisaunce, sometime of Chaucer vsed for gaine: sometime of other for spoyle, or bootie, or enterprise, and sometime for chiefdome].

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. xi. sig. Nn5 Shameful thing Yt were t'abandon noble cheuisaunce, For shewe of perill, without venturing.

1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iv. lxxxi. 71 Be it not pardie declar'd in France,..That we forsooke so faire a cheuisance, For doubt or feare that might from fight arise.

1612 W. Fennor Cornu-copiæ 105 None of more valour, might or cheuisance.

1624 F. Quarles Sions Elegies i. sig. B2 Encreas'd in power, and high Cheuisaunce Of armes.

1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton King Arthur viii. xi Frank were those times of trustful chevisaunce [note, chevisaunce, Spenser], And hearts when guileless open to a glance.

1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton King Arthur xii. cxcv Stand forth..bold child of Christian Chevisaunce.

1882 J. H. Shorthouse John Inglesant xxxii When the northern gods..rode on their chevisance, they went down into the deep valleys singing magic songs.

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单词	chevisance
释义	† chevisancen.¹ Forms: Middle English chevisans, chevicaunce, chewisance, chefesaunce, chyvesaunce, chevyssauns, Middle English chevissaunce, chevissance, Middle English–1500s chevysaunce, chevysance, chevesance, chevesaunce, Middle English–1600s, 1800s chevisaunce, chevisance, Middle English ( cheysaunce, chevysshaunce), chevesauns, chevyshaunce, chevyshance, (1600s chevisancie). Etymology: < Old French chevisance, chevissance, < chevissant , present participle of chevir : see chevise v. Obsolete. I. Senses relating to achievement or supply. 1. A bringing to an end or issue; issue, end. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > [noun] enda1300 chevisancec1330 applyinga1382 perfectiona1382 pointc1385 finishmentc1400 accomplishingc1405 complement1419 consummationa1425 effecta1425 performinga1425 accomplishment1425 fining?1448 complishing1449 complishment1454 achevisauncec1475 achievement1477 perfectinga1513 cheving?1518 furniture1529 achievance1531 exploiture1531 exploiting1538 perimplishment1554 consummating1555 finishing?1563 chevance1570 coronation1582 crowning1586 adimpletion1624 fulfilment1624 complusmenta1628 completure1642 completement1652 transaction1655 patration1656 perfunction1656 completion1657 completing1727 ultimation1791 finality1833 perfectuation1859 fruition1885 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 105 Whan Henry herd telle þis of þat gode cheuysance. c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) lx. 248 Shamide that he ne wiste what chevisaunce he myght make. 2. Furtherance; help, assistance rendered. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [noun] fultumeOE help971 succour?c1225 abetc1330 succouringc1330 speedc1340 subsidya1387 rescousc1390 chevisancea1400 juvamentc1400 supply1420 aid1430 favour1434 supplying1436 suffrage1445 availa1450 boteningc1450 succurrancec1450 adjuvancea1460 assistance1495 meeda1500 subventiona1500 suppliancea1500 adjutory?a1513 sistancea1513 adminiculation1531 abetment1533 assisting1553 adjument1576 society1586 aidance1593 opitulation1598 secourse1598 second1605 suppeditation1605 assistency1642 auxiliation1657 adjutancy1665 adjuvancy1677 abettal1834 sustenance1839 constructiveness1882 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 6978 Na folk þaim miht wid-stand..Quilis þai wid þaim had goddes cheuisans. a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 4911 Yf a man..Of his gode yeve you a gode substaunce, Kunneth hym thanke of his goode chevysaunce. 3. Resource, remedy, means of helping or extricating oneself, shift; also, expedient, device, shiftiness. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > recourse > [noun] > that to which one has recourse chevisancec1330 recoursec1405 resorta1413 refugec1425 shift1523 rescours1533 reserve1644 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > available means or a resource boota1225 chevisancec1330 shift1523 a help at maw1592 resource1665 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > available means or a resource > a device, contrivance, or expedient costOE craftOE custc1275 ginc1275 devicec1290 enginec1300 quaintisec1300 contrevurec1330 castc1340 knackc1369 findinga1382 wilea1400 conject14.. skiftc1400 policy?1406 subtilityc1410 policec1450 conjecturea1464 industry1477 invention1516 cunning1526 shift1530 compass1540 chevisance1548 trade1550 tour1558 fashion1562 invent?1567 expediment1571 trick1573 ingeny1588 machine1595 lock1598 contrival1602 contrivement1611 artifice1620 recipea1643 ingenuity1651 expedient1653 contrivance1661 excogitation1664 mechanism1669 expediency1683 stroke1699 spell1728 management1736 manoeuvre1769 move1794 wrinkle1817 dodge1842 jigamaree1847 quiff1881 kink1889 lurk1916 gadget1920 fastie1931 ploy1940 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 181 If þe Soudan ros opon Philip of France, & I wer þan in clos withouten cheuisance. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxiii. 16 Þauh he..can no betere cheuesaunce, Neode nymeþ hym a-non vnder his maynpryse. 1440 Protest Dk. Gloucester in Rymer Fœdera (1710) X. 766 Yf..my said Lord can find noon other meen or chevesaunce to keep ony part. c1470 J. Hardyng Chron. iv. iii Eche daye they made wyttye cheuesaunce, To helpe them selfe at their necessitee. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iii. 104 The foreste is soo grete, that they shall fynde some cheuysaunce. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 267/1 Schyfte, chevesaunce, cheuesance. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xlvij^v His craftie cheuesaunce tooke none effect in Brytayne. 1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 39 Violated by Leger du main, or chevisance of wit. 4. Contribution to the supply of any want; provision; supply. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > [noun] provisiona1325 warnison1338 chevisance138. subministrationa1425 financec1475 suppliancea1500 supply?a1513 supplement1544 furnishment1563 furnish1633 plenishment1823 provisionment1827 resourcing1917 138. J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 382 What chefesaunce & costis þe clergi makiþ. 1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare i. 89 There was then neither suche number of Aultares, nor suche cheuisance of Masses, as hath beene sithence. 5. Provision of what is wanted for life; concrete provisions, substance. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > of something needed > of what is wanted for life chevisancec1385 the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > that which is supplied > supplies warnestorea1300 astorec1330 chevisancec1385 weala1400 supply1510 supply1512 furniture1549 furnishments1559 loana1578 suppeditaments1599 foisona1616 store1636 wanigan1889 c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Phyllis Hys wyse folke conseyle han hym yeven..To..make in that londe somme chevissaunce, And kepen hym fro woo. 1436 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) II. 169 Thus moste rude ware be in here chevesaunce. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 402 He gat schippyne gud plente And wittalis in gret aboundance. Sa maid he nobill chewisance. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 29 The store-house of Sunnes cheuisance... Oceanus. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxiii. iii. 221 A strong towne of defence, and for rich chevisance and quicke traffique a most delectable place. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bien, wealth, substance, chevisance, riches, possessions. 6. Booty. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > spoil or plunder reifOE fang1016 fengc1175 purchasec1325 predec1330 robberyc1330 robbingsc1330 spoila1340 spoila1382 chevisance1393 waitha1400 fee14.. pilferc1400 pelfa1425 spreathc1425 butinc1450 emprisec1450 gain1473 despoil1474 pelfry?a1475 pilfery1489 spulyie1507 cheat1566 bootinga1572 booty1574 escheat1587 boot1598 exuvial1632 bootyn1635 polling1675 expilation1715 prog1727 swag1794 filch1798 spreaghery1814 stake1819 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 332 As a thefe maketh his chevesance And robbeth mennes goodes about. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1390 Tas yow þere my cheuicaunce, I cheued no more. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Gii When we w^t magnyfycence goodys made cheuysaunce. 1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Fv For him they might not slee whom they wolde and make what cheuysaunce they lusted. a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 149 [They] carried their pillage..to places of safety..and full of gladnesse for their chevisance, did then come again to fetch more. II. spec. The providing or raising of funds. 7. a. Regarded as the action of the borrower: Raising of money by some expedient, esp. on some surety or pledge; borrowing. to make a chevisance: to contract a loan; to pledge or pawn anything for ready money. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > [noun] > on security chevisancec1386 chevance1538 society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > borrow money [verb (intransitive)] > on security to make a chevisancec1386 chevisea1513 to make chevance1538 to draw against ——1849 c1386 G. Chaucer Shipman's Tale 329 Chaffare is so dere, That nedes must he make a chevisance, For he was bonde in a recognisance, To payen twenty thousand sheldes anon. 1461 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 391 I kowd make non othyre cheysaunce but I schuld a boruyd it of a strange man. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 113 For he [sc. Richd. I] purposed to go to þe Holy Lond, and must make cheuesauns for mech mony, he sent aftir þe kyng of Scottis. 1474 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 476 And as for the forte c mark..he wolde, rather than joparte sholde be, purvey it by weye off chevyshaunce at London, jn so meche þat..he had for my sake leyde v c markys worthe off plate wyth Hewghe Fenne. 1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Fvii The old Pope had none auctoryte to make anye soch cheuisaunce with saynt Peters enheritaunce: he coude but haue the vse of it his lyfelonge. b. Resource or shift to get money, way of ‘raising the needful’. (Always in a bad sense.) ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] winninga1300 purchasec1325 lucrec1380 chevisancea1400 framing1440 lucring1574 lucrifaction1606 lucration1658 money-making1785 realization1799 money getting1836 capital formation1889 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > a wile or cunning device > for raising money chevisancea1400 a1400 Cov. Myst. xxv. 243 A beggerys dowtere..To cownterfete a jentylwoman..And yf mony lakke, this is the new chevesauns With here prevy plesawns to gett it of sum man. ?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. D If he shame to begge,..Then torneth he to fraude, and crafty cheuesaunce Of all men borowynge on suertie, othe or seale. 1545 Act 37 Hen. VIII c. 9 Preamble Punyshment of Usurye..and of other corrupte bargaynes, shiftes and chevisances. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xviii. 30 Pasturage was before tillage, or fishing or fowling, or any other predatory art or cheuisance. c. Merchandise, gain (in a bad sense); esp. in to make chevisance of: to make merchandise, profit, or gain of. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] earningeOE issuea1325 lucrec1380 lucre of gainc1386 return1419 feracityc1420 revenue1427 vantagec1430 afframing1440 revenue1440 availc1449 proventc1451 provenuec1487 rent1513 fardel1523 chevisance1535 gains1546 commodity1577 proceed1578 increasal1601 benefit1606 endowment1615 gaininga1631 superlucration1683 profit1697 bunce1706 making1837 bunt1851 plunder1851 yield1877 recovery1931 earner1970 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > be profitable to > make profit by to make money1457 to make a (good, etc.) penny of, by, from1464 to make chevisance of1535 to make a (also one's) hand(s)1538 to make a good thing of (also out of)1800 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. xxi. 14 Then shalt thou let her go whither she wyll, and not to sell her, nor to make cheuesaunce of her. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. vii. 161 The parentes brought to niedinesse, vse there to make cheuisaunce of their doughters bodies. ?1577 F. T. Debate Pride & Lowlines sig. Dv Others for they mak of it cheuisaunce: And to commaund, and haue the world at wyll. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Cheuisance, merchandise, bargaining. 1623–6 in Cockeram 8. Regarded as the action of the lender: The furnishing of funds, money-lending on security. Also, apparently The lending of goods, etc., for profit; and sometimes, merely, Dealing for profit.Apparently commonly applied in 15–16th centuries to some device by which the statutes against usury were evaded. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > lending money on security chevisance1377 chevisancing1586 broking?1593 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 249 Eschaunges and cheuesaunces With suche chaffare I dele. 138. J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 88 Marchauntis by usure under colour of treuþe þat þei clepyn chevysaunce. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 252 Þat chaffared with my chyuesaunce, cheuede selde after. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 284 So estaatly was he of his gouernaunce With his bargaynes, and w^t his cheuysaunce. c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1714) 33 Usury and Chevesaunce, incresith the Povertie of hym that borowyth. 1487 Act 3 Hen. VII c. 6 §3 Ordyned..that all unlefull Chevysaunces and Usurye be dampned, and none to be used, upon payne of forfeyture of the Value of the Money or Goodez so chevysched or lent. 1570 Act 13 Eliz. c. 5 Couenous and fraudulent Feoffements..Conueyances, Bonds..to the overthrow of all true and plain dealing, bargaining and chevisance between man and man. 1570 Act 13 Eliz. (Who is a Bankrupt) c. 7 Any..Person..using the Trade of Merchandize by way of Bargaining, Exchange, Rechange, Bartry, Chevisance or otherwise. 1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 74 Pitie, that any such knack of knauerie, or couenous chevisance..should..ouerthrow..any well gouerned.. state. 1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law ii. 48 It is held to be simonie, and corrupt cheuisance, if any valuable consideration be giuen in such regard pacto, vel facto. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 56 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. xxxi. ] 9. By confusion with chevance, chivalry, chevauchee, etc.: Enterprise, performance; chivalrous enterprise or achievement; expedition on horseback; chivalry; prowess, etc.‘Spenser app. misunderstood some passage in Gower or other old writer: modern archaists have in turn misunderstood Spenser.’ ( N.E.D.) ΚΠ 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 92 They maken many a wrong cheuisaunce [gloss., Cheuisaunce, sometime of Chaucer vsed for gaine: sometime of other for spoyle, or bootie, or enterprise, and sometime for chiefdome]. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. xi. sig. Nn5 Shameful thing Yt were t'abandon noble cheuisaunce, For shewe of perill, without venturing. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iv. lxxxi. 71 Be it not pardie declar'd in France,..That we forsooke so faire a cheuisance, For doubt or feare that might from fight arise. 1612 W. Fennor Cornu-copiæ 105 None of more valour, might or cheuisance. 1624 F. Quarles Sions Elegies i. sig. B2 Encreas'd in power, and high Cheuisaunce Of armes. 1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton King Arthur viii. xi Frank were those times of trustful chevisaunce [note, chevisaunce, Spenser], And hearts when guileless open to a glance. 1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton King Arthur xii. cxcv Stand forth..bold child of Christian Chevisaunce. 1882 J. H. Shorthouse John Inglesant xxxii When the northern gods..rode on their chevisance, they went down into the deep valleys singing magic songs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021). chevisancen.² Etymology: probably the same word as chevisance n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈchevisance. Obsolete. An old name of some flower, not identified: Dr. Prior has suggested the Wall-flower. The conjecture that this is ‘evidently a misprint for cherisance’, is baseless: there is no such word. Π 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Apr. 143 The pretie Pawnce And the Chevisaunce Shall match with the fayre flowre Delice. c1620 T. Robinson Mary Magdalene (1899) i. xxxv. 317 The woody Primrose and the pretty Paunce, The Pinke, y^e Daffodill and Cheuisance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.¹c1330n.²1579
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