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单词 almon
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Forms: Middle English almound (past participle), Middle English almousend (past participle), Middle English almusned (past participle).
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French almosner.
Etymology: < Old French, Middle French almosner to give as alms, to grant (land) in frankalmoign (1133; French aumôner (rare) to give as alms, (also) to give alms to (a person)) < almosne alms n.With use in quot. compare free alms n. at free adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2 and free almoign at almoign n. 1.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To give as alms; (in quot. c1325) spec. to grant (land) in frankalmoign (cf. frankalmoign n.). Only in past participle.
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c1325 Rhyming Charter: King Athelstan to St. John's, Beverley (Sawyer 451) in D. A. Woodman Charters of Northern Houses (2012) 209 I, the kinge Adelstan, Has yaten and giuen to seint John..Tol and theam,..Sok and sake ouer al that land..Be it almousend, be al fre [c1325 Schøyen almusned be it fre, a1400 BL Add. almound be it al fre], Wit ilke man and eek wit me.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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