diligencen.¹

/ˈdɪlɪdʒəns/

Forms: In Middle English–1500s dilygence, dylygence, deligence, delygence, delygens.

Etymology: < French diligence (13–14th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), < Latin dīligentia , < dīligent-em diligent adj. and adv.: see -ence suffix. Compare Provençal diligencia, Spanish diligencia, Italian diligenza.

The quality of being diligent.

a. Constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken; persistent application and endeavour; industry, assiduity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > studious care or diligence

yernfulnesseOE

swinkfulnessOE

diligencec1374

applying?c1430

diligencya1513

diligentness1530

sedulity1542

application1543

assiduity1605

sedulousness1622

navity1623

assiduousness1637

intention1638

apply1681

perdiligence1694

painstakingness1917

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 86 (135) With al my wit and al my deligence.

1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 37 As for thy diligence, Whiche every mannes conscience By reson shulde reule and kepe.

c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. iv. 74 To mak defens For hys Land wyth diligens.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 190 By the carefull toyle and diligence of the Bee.

1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 1 The extraordinary pains and diligence which you have us'd in this matter.

a1718 W. Penn Tracts in Wks. (1726) I. 908 Diligence is a discreet and understanding Application of one's self to Business.

1719 Free-thinker No. 89. 2 Manage Business with Regularity and Diligence.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 85. ⁋1 Many writers..have laid out their diligence upon the consideration of those distempers.

1871 E. F. Burr Ad Fidem viii. 130 Patient diligence the only sure key to Divine treasures.

†b. Assiduity in service; persistent endeavour to please; officiousness. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > studious care or diligence > diligence in service

diligence1493

officiousness1596

assiduity1641

assidencea1656

attention1752

1493 Petronylla (Pynson) 142 To do servise with humble diligence Unto thy fader.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 60 Sum be service and diligence.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) v. iii. 9 This speedy and quicke appearance argues proofe Of your accustom'd diligence to me.

1664 J. Playford Brief Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 4) i. 61 Which sort of people we should endeavour to please with all diligence.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 387 Why shouldst thou then obtrude this diligence, In vain, where no acceptance it can find..?

†c. with a and plural: an act of diligence; plural labours, exertions, diligent efforts. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > instance of > an effort

diligence1443

enforcement1551

1443 King Henry VI Let. 17 Aug. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 79 By whos notable..labours and diligences it hath liked our Lord to shewe us his grete fauour.

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Phil. iv. f. ix All them..that with their dilygences helpe forewarde the businesse of the gospell.

1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 314 Not suffering his men to discharge one volley..for that it seemed unto him a vaine diligence.

1652 J. Wadsworth tr. P. de Sandoval Civil Wars Spain 253 Whilest the Lord High Constable was making all these diligences, the Cardinal stole secretly out of Valladolid.

†d. One in whom the quality is personified; a diligent person.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > studious care or diligence > diligent person

diligencea1616

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 244 Ar. Was't well done? Pro. Brauely (my diligence) thou shalt be free.

†e. Phrases. to put diligence, to do one's diligence, to do one's utmost endeavour, to exert oneself. to report one's diligence, to report what one has done, to report progress. Obsolete or archaic.

ΚΠ

c1386 G. Chaucer Melibeus ⁋27 Whan thou hast for-goon thy freend, do diligence to gete another freend.

c1386 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 37 And nyght and day did euere his diligence Hir for to plese.

1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 4 Þe same maistres & breþeren shul do her diligence trewly to redresse it.

1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 64^v I shal put my peyn and dyligence to distroye the.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde i. vi. 30 They [kynges] doo their diligence to lerne such clergye & science.

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xviii^v Neuer wyse man loued..to haue great riches put ouer great diligence.

1539 Bible (Great) 1 Tim. iv. 9 Do thy diligence, that thou mayest come shortly vnto me.

1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 208 That they be carefull to correct what they can, and report their diligence to the nixt Assemblie.

1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 143 I will doe my diligence.

†2.

a. Speed, dispatch, haste. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > expedition or dispatch

speedOE

diligence1490

expedition1529

dispatch1570

expedience1597

urgence1612

navity1623

expediteness1635

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxvi. 95 Yf thou departe not with all diligence thou shalt soone see the see alle couered with vesselles of werre commynge ayenst the.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxxvij This phisician dyd not long lynger..but with good diligens repaired to the quene.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear v. 4 If your diligence be not speedie, I shall be there before you.

1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 21 Posting on with such diligence that by darke night hee reached [etc.].

1703 N. Rowe Ulysses iv. i. 1415 With thy swiftest Diligence return.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 41 His rival..fled before him with the diligence of fear.

†b. A ‘company’ of messengers. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > message > [noun] > messenger > body of

diligence1486

messageryc1500

1486 Bk. St. Albans F vj b A Diligens of Messangeris.

†3.

a. Careful attention, heedfulness, caution. to do or have diligence, to take care, take heed, beware; to take care of or about a thing, to look after it carefully. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun]

yemec893

carefulnessa1000

getec1175

gomec1175

tenta1300

curec1300

keepa1325

diligence1340

heed1357

tentivenessa1382

observancec1390

businessa1398

reasona1398

attendancec1400

resporta1413

curiosityc1430

mindingc1449

reckc1475

respect1509

regardshipa1513

looking unto1525

peradvertencea1529

looking toa1535

solicitudea1535

looking after?1537

solicitudeness1547

care1548

solicitnessc1550

caring1556

heedfulness1561

solicitateness1562

hofulness1566

regard1573

charishness1587

on-waiting1590

heediness1596

take-heed1596

respectiveness1598

observationa1616

solicitousness1636

heeding1678

curiousness1690

solicitation1693

attention1741

craftsmanship1850

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 238 Þeruore hi ssolle do greate payne and grat diligence wel to loki hare chastete.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Tim. iii. 5 If ony man kan not gouerne his hous, how schal he haue diligence of the chirche of God?

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 141 It is necessarie þat a surgian have more diligence in þe woundis of þe face.

1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton B v b Thou oughtest to take dyligence and cure of thy werkes.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. iv. C Kepe thine hert with all diligence.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 152^v To keepe your Bacon any long time, you must vse great diligence in the saltyng and drying of it.

1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Horses (1627) 100 A horse doth aske a greater deligence to be meated and kept..then other cattell.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 47 Moscovy-glass..with care and diligence may be slit into pieces..exceeding thin.

1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc viii Thou wilt guard them with due diligence, Yet not forgetful of humanity.

†b. with plural. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1675 M. Clifford Treat. Humane Reason in Phenix 1708 II. 530 Those necessary Diligences which are requir'd for so doubtful and dangerous a Passage.

4. Law. The attention and care due from a person in a given situation; spec. that incumbent upon the parties to a contract.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal obligation > [noun] > specific obligations

trimoda necessitasc975

diligence1622

nexum1886

no-right1913

1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 407 The diligences which are requisite to bee done herein, are..to be obserued accordingly.

1781 W. Jones Ess. Law Bailments 16.

1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon (at cited word) The common law recognizes three degrees of diligence. (1) Common or ordinary..(2) High or great, which is extraordinary diligence..(3) Low or slight, which is that which persons of less than common prudence, or indeed of any prudence at all, take of their own concerns.

1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) 477 The opposite of Negligence is Diligence, vigilance, attention, which, like Negligence, admits of an infinite variety of gradations.

1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) 480 If the interests of the parties are not identical, the Roman law, at least, requires extraordinary diligence.

5. Scots Law. (a) The process of law by which persons, lands, or effects are attached on execution, or in security for debt. (b) The warrant issued by a court to enforce the attendance of witnesses, or the production of documents.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > attachment of person or property for debt

arresting1424

restc1500

diligence1568

personal diligence1700

personal executiona1768

1568 in Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1843) II. 426 The persons addebted for payment of the same being at the horne, and no further diligence used for obteaning of payment.

1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 37 Therefore, necessary it is for the Complainers to have our Warrant and Diligence for summoning the said C.D. to compear before Our Lords Justice-General.

1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. i. ii. 12 In our supreme courts of Session and Exchequer, not only process, but execution of diligence runs in the name of the Sovereign.

1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 31 Oct. (1941) 123 Mr. Abud..has given the most positive orders to take out diligence against me for his debt of £1500.

1858 A. Polson Law & Lawyers 197 Witnesses are brought into Court upon a diligence.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

diligencen.²

/ˈdɪlɪdʒəns//diːliˈʒɒns/

Etymology: modern French: a particular use of diligence , diligence n.¹ 2, also in German and Dutch; Italian diligenza, Spanish diligencia.

a. A public stagecoach. (In later use only with reference to France or other continental European countries.)

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > stagecoach or mail coach

posting carriage1556

wagon1615

post-coach1636

stagecoach1658

flying coach1669

stage1671

wagon-coach1675

stage-wagon1681

post-car1694

post-wagon1694

post calash1703

fly1708

post-carriage1720

post-stage1738

diligence1742

flying machine1764

machine1769

mail coach1785

dilly1786

mail stage1792

high-flyer1799

post-equipage1813

post vehicle1815

tally-ho coach1831

mail packeta1837

flying carriage1849

stager1852

mail-hack1909

1742 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 2 May (1966) II. 276 Travell'd from Paris to Lyons in the Diligence.

1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour IV. 41 The Diligence is a kind of stage coach so called frem its expedition, and differs from the carosse or ordinary stage-coach, in little else but in moving with greater velocity. It is used chiefly in travelling from Paris to Lyons, and from Paris to Brussels.

1815 M. Birkbeck Notes Journey through France 17 From Rouen to Louviers we travelled by diligence.

1838 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Greece, Turkey, Russia 62/1 We mounted a drosky and rode to the office of the diligence, which was situated in the Podolsk, or lower town.

1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life II. 207 When travelling..on the top of a Diligence, Turner sketched, on the back of a letter, Heidelberg.

†b. Formerly used also in Great Britain. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xi. 76 I shall make my lord very merry with our adventures in the Diligence. [Satirically: it was a wagon.]

1776 J. Wesley Wks. (1830) IV. 90 I set out for Bedford in the diligence.

1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal i. i. 7 Her guardian caught her just stepping into the York Diligence, with her dancing-master.

1780 F. Burney Lett. 9 June If..possible to send me a line by the diligence to Brighton.

1782 Sir J. E. Smith in Mem. (1832) I. 55 We went in the diligence to Dumbarton.

1797 Papers on Reform of Posts App. ii. 3 The Diligence that sets out from Bath..on Monday afternoon, will deliver a letter on Tuesday morning.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 379 The interests of large classes had been unfavourably affected by the establishment of the new diligences.

c. Used for the passengers of a ‘diligence’. (Cf. coach n. 1b.)

ΚΠ

1887 J. Ruskin Præterita II. xi. 400 The hour when the diligence dined.

d. attributive.

ΚΠ

1861 Sat. Rev. 14 Dec. 607 Continuous diligence journey of three days and nights required to reach Madrid.

1866 A. I. Thackeray Village on Cliff in Cornhill Mag. 527 Catherine..looked out through the diligence windows at the château.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	diligence
释义	diligencen.¹ /ˈdɪlɪdʒəns/ Forms: In Middle English–1500s dilygence, dylygence, deligence, delygence, delygens. Etymology: < French diligence (13–14th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), < Latin dīligentia , < dīligent-em diligent adj. and adv.: see -ence suffix. Compare Provençal diligencia, Spanish diligencia, Italian diligenza. The quality of being diligent. 1. a. Constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken; persistent application and endeavour; industry, assiduity. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > studious care or diligence yernfulnesseOE swinkfulnessOE diligencec1374 applying?c1430 diligencya1513 diligentness1530 sedulity1542 application1543 assiduity1605 sedulousness1622 navity1623 assiduousness1637 intention1638 apply1681 perdiligence1694 painstakingness1917 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 86 (135) With al my wit and al my deligence. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 37 As for thy diligence, Whiche every mannes conscience By reson shulde reule and kepe. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. iv. 74 To mak defens For hys Land wyth diligens. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 190 By the carefull toyle and diligence of the Bee. 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 1 The extraordinary pains and diligence which you have us'd in this matter. a1718 W. Penn Tracts in Wks. (1726) I. 908 Diligence is a discreet and understanding Application of one's self to Business. 1719 Free-thinker No. 89. 2 Manage Business with Regularity and Diligence. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 85. ⁋1 Many writers..have laid out their diligence upon the consideration of those distempers. 1871 E. F. Burr Ad Fidem viii. 130 Patient diligence the only sure key to Divine treasures. †b. Assiduity in service; persistent endeavour to please; officiousness. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > studious care or diligence > diligence in service diligence1493 officiousness1596 assiduity1641 assidencea1656 attention1752 1493 Petronylla (Pynson) 142 To do servise with humble diligence Unto thy fader. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 60 Sum be service and diligence. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) v. iii. 9 This speedy and quicke appearance argues proofe Of your accustom'd diligence to me. View more context for this quotation 1664 J. Playford Brief Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 4) i. 61 Which sort of people we should endeavour to please with all diligence. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 387 Why shouldst thou then obtrude this diligence, In vain, where no acceptance it can find..? View more context for this quotation †c. with a and plural: an act of diligence; plural labours, exertions, diligent efforts. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > instance of > an effort diligence1443 enforcement1551 1443 King Henry VI Let. 17 Aug. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 79 By whos notable..labours and diligences it hath liked our Lord to shewe us his grete fauour. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Phil. iv. f. ix All them..that with their dilygences helpe forewarde the businesse of the gospell. 1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 314 Not suffering his men to discharge one volley..for that it seemed unto him a vaine diligence. 1652 J. Wadsworth tr. P. de Sandoval Civil Wars Spain 253 Whilest the Lord High Constable was making all these diligences, the Cardinal stole secretly out of Valladolid. †d. One in whom the quality is personified; a diligent person.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > studious care or diligence > diligent person diligencea1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 244 Ar. Was't well done? Pro. Brauely (my diligence) thou shalt be free. View more context for this quotation †e. Phrases. to put diligence, to do one's diligence, to do one's utmost endeavour, to exert oneself. to report one's diligence, to report what one has done, to report progress. Obsolete or archaic. ΚΠ c1386 G. Chaucer Melibeus ⁋27 Whan thou hast for-goon thy freend, do diligence to gete another freend. c1386 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 37 And nyght and day did euere his diligence Hir for to plese. 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 4 Þe same maistres & breþeren shul do her diligence trewly to redresse it. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 64^v I shal put my peyn and dyligence to distroye the. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde i. vi. 30 They [kynges] doo their diligence to lerne such clergye & science. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xviii^v Neuer wyse man loued..to haue great riches put ouer great diligence. 1539 Bible (Great) 1 Tim. iv. 9 Do thy diligence, that thou mayest come shortly vnto me. 1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 208 That they be carefull to correct what they can, and report their diligence to the nixt Assemblie. 1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 143 I will doe my diligence. †2. a. Speed, dispatch, haste. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > expedition or dispatch speedOE diligence1490 expedition1529 dispatch1570 expedience1597 urgence1612 navity1623 expediteness1635 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxvi. 95 Yf thou departe not with all diligence thou shalt soone see the see alle couered with vesselles of werre commynge ayenst the. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxxvij This phisician dyd not long lynger..but with good diligens repaired to the quene. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear v. 4 If your diligence be not speedie, I shall be there before you. View more context for this quotation 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 21 Posting on with such diligence that by darke night hee reached [etc.]. 1703 N. Rowe Ulysses iv. i. 1415 With thy swiftest Diligence return. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 41 His rival..fled before him with the diligence of fear. †b. A ‘company’ of messengers. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > message > [noun] > messenger > body of diligence1486 messageryc1500 1486 Bk. St. Albans F vj b A Diligens of Messangeris. †3. a. Careful attention, heedfulness, caution. to do or have diligence, to take care, take heed, beware; to take care of or about a thing, to look after it carefully. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] yemec893 carefulnessa1000 getec1175 gomec1175 tenta1300 curec1300 keepa1325 diligence1340 heed1357 tentivenessa1382 observancec1390 businessa1398 reasona1398 attendancec1400 resporta1413 curiosityc1430 mindingc1449 reckc1475 respect1509 regardshipa1513 looking unto1525 peradvertencea1529 looking toa1535 solicitudea1535 looking after?1537 solicitudeness1547 care1548 solicitnessc1550 caring1556 heedfulness1561 solicitateness1562 hofulness1566 regard1573 charishness1587 on-waiting1590 heediness1596 take-heed1596 respectiveness1598 observationa1616 solicitousness1636 heeding1678 curiousness1690 solicitation1693 attention1741 craftsmanship1850 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 238 Þeruore hi ssolle do greate payne and grat diligence wel to loki hare chastete. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Tim. iii. 5 If ony man kan not gouerne his hous, how schal he haue diligence of the chirche of God? c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 141 It is necessarie þat a surgian have more diligence in þe woundis of þe face. 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton B v b Thou oughtest to take dyligence and cure of thy werkes. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. iv. C Kepe thine hert with all diligence. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 152^v To keepe your Bacon any long time, you must vse great diligence in the saltyng and drying of it. 1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Horses (1627) 100 A horse doth aske a greater deligence to be meated and kept..then other cattell. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 47 Moscovy-glass..with care and diligence may be slit into pieces..exceeding thin. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc viii Thou wilt guard them with due diligence, Yet not forgetful of humanity. †b. with plural. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1675 M. Clifford Treat. Humane Reason in Phenix 1708 II. 530 Those necessary Diligences which are requir'd for so doubtful and dangerous a Passage. 4. Law. The attention and care due from a person in a given situation; spec. that incumbent upon the parties to a contract. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal obligation > [noun] > specific obligations trimoda necessitasc975 diligence1622 nexum1886 no-right1913 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 407 The diligences which are requisite to bee done herein, are..to be obserued accordingly. 1781 W. Jones Ess. Law Bailments 16. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon (at cited word) The common law recognizes three degrees of diligence. (1) Common or ordinary..(2) High or great, which is extraordinary diligence..(3) Low or slight, which is that which persons of less than common prudence, or indeed of any prudence at all, take of their own concerns. 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) 477 The opposite of Negligence is Diligence, vigilance, attention, which, like Negligence, admits of an infinite variety of gradations. 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) 480 If the interests of the parties are not identical, the Roman law, at least, requires extraordinary diligence. 5. Scots Law. (a) The process of law by which persons, lands, or effects are attached on execution, or in security for debt. (b) The warrant issued by a court to enforce the attendance of witnesses, or the production of documents. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > attachment of person or property for debt arresting1424 restc1500 diligence1568 personal diligence1700 personal executiona1768 1568 in Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1843) II. 426 The persons addebted for payment of the same being at the horne, and no further diligence used for obteaning of payment. 1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 37 Therefore, necessary it is for the Complainers to have our Warrant and Diligence for summoning the said C.D. to compear before Our Lords Justice-General. 1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. i. ii. 12 In our supreme courts of Session and Exchequer, not only process, but execution of diligence runs in the name of the Sovereign. 1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 31 Oct. (1941) 123 Mr. Abud..has given the most positive orders to take out diligence against me for his debt of £1500. 1858 A. Polson Law & Lawyers 197 Witnesses are brought into Court upon a diligence. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021). diligencen.² /ˈdɪlɪdʒəns//diːliˈʒɒns/ Etymology: modern French: a particular use of diligence , diligence n.¹ 2, also in German and Dutch; Italian diligenza, Spanish diligencia. a. A public stagecoach. (In later use only with reference to France or other continental European countries.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > stagecoach or mail coach posting carriage1556 wagon1615 post-coach1636 stagecoach1658 flying coach1669 stage1671 wagon-coach1675 stage-wagon1681 post-car1694 post-wagon1694 post calash1703 fly1708 post-carriage1720 post-stage1738 diligence1742 flying machine1764 machine1769 mail coach1785 dilly1786 mail stage1792 high-flyer1799 post-equipage1813 post vehicle1815 tally-ho coach1831 mail packeta1837 flying carriage1849 stager1852 mail-hack1909 1742 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 2 May (1966) II. 276 Travell'd from Paris to Lyons in the Diligence. 1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour IV. 41 The Diligence is a kind of stage coach so called frem its expedition, and differs from the carosse or ordinary stage-coach, in little else but in moving with greater velocity. It is used chiefly in travelling from Paris to Lyons, and from Paris to Brussels. 1815 M. Birkbeck Notes Journey through France 17 From Rouen to Louviers we travelled by diligence. 1838 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Greece, Turkey, Russia 62/1 We mounted a drosky and rode to the office of the diligence, which was situated in the Podolsk, or lower town. 1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life II. 207 When travelling..on the top of a Diligence, Turner sketched, on the back of a letter, Heidelberg. †b. Formerly used also in Great Britain. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xi. 76 I shall make my lord very merry with our adventures in the Diligence. [Satirically: it was a wagon.] 1776 J. Wesley Wks. (1830) IV. 90 I set out for Bedford in the diligence. 1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal i. i. 7 Her guardian caught her just stepping into the York Diligence, with her dancing-master. 1780 F. Burney Lett. 9 June If..possible to send me a line by the diligence to Brighton. 1782 Sir J. E. Smith in Mem. (1832) I. 55 We went in the diligence to Dumbarton. 1797 Papers on Reform of Posts App. ii. 3 The Diligence that sets out from Bath..on Monday afternoon, will deliver a letter on Tuesday morning. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 379 The interests of large classes had been unfavourably affected by the establishment of the new diligences. c. Used for the passengers of a ‘diligence’. (Cf. coach n. 1b.) ΚΠ 1887 J. Ruskin Præterita II. xi. 400 The hour when the diligence dined. d. attributive. ΚΠ 1861 Sat. Rev. 14 Dec. 607 Continuous diligence journey of three days and nights required to reach Madrid. 1866 A. I. Thackeray Village on Cliff in Cornhill Mag. 527 Catherine..looked out through the diligence windows at the château. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.¹1340n.²1742
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