单词 | covenantee |
释义 | covenanteen. a. Legal and gen. The person to whom a promise by covenant is made. The correlative to covenantor n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > one who is involved in making treater1489 covenant-man1540 obligatora1625 covenanter1643 covenantee1649 declarer1649 convener1650 tryster1655 contractor1724 conventionist1768 circumscriber1776 declarationist1892 society > law > legal obligation > contract > [noun] > one who is party to > person with whom contract is made covenantee1649 contractee1875 1649 W. Ball Power of Kings 8 Even so it is between the King, who is Covenantor by Oath, and the People who are Covenantees concerning Lawes and Statutes..to be enacted. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 156 If a man covenants to be at York by such a day..and is not at York at the time appointed..these are direct breaches of his covenant; and may be perhaps greatly to the disadvantage and loss of the covenantee. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 101 If a tenant in tail covenants to stand seised to the use of the covenantee for life. 1885 Law Times Rep. 53 308/1 The reasons for making the trustees covenantees are that the husband cannot covenant with his wife. b. Theology. One admitted into God's covenant with His people. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > vow > covenant > [noun] > one included in confederate1655 covenantee1692 covenant-head1758 1692 T. Beverley Concil. Disc. Dr. Crisp's Serm. 1 The Covenantees according to the faultless Covenant must so continue in it, that God may be for ever their God, and they his People. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi v. iii. 73/1 To be in Covenant, or to be a Covenantee is the formalis Ratio of a Church-Member. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 105 Both of them were the respective Rites of their Admission into the several Covenants, and the Covenantees became thereby entitled to the respective Privileges which were annex'd to them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1649 |
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