α. late Middle English entresoure, 1600s 1800s entreasure.
β. 1500s–1700s intreasure.
entreasurev.
/ᵻnˈtrɛʒə/, /ɛnˈtrɛʒə/, U.S. /ᵻnˈtrɛʒər/, /ɛnˈtrɛʒər/ Chiefly poetic and literary.† 2. transitive. To stock with treasure. Obsolete. rare.
1. transitive. To store up in, or as if in, a treasury. Now rare.
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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > treasury > [verb (transitive)] > place in a treasury
entreasure?a1439
chequer?1605
exchequer?1706
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iv. l. 1147 (MED) Philisophres & clerkis mor commende The moral vertues entresoured be writyngis, Than al the tresours of worldli crowned kynges.
1579 T. F. Newes from North i. i. sig. B Thou..hast intreasured the memory.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (2nd issue) iii. i. 80 Who in their seedes, And weake beginning lie intreasured.
?1617 W. Alexander Suppl. Sidney's Arcadia sig. *2 My thoughts..scorning the simple rudenesse of the eyes..would securely entreasure it [sc. her picture] in a more precious Place.
1653 Duchess of Newcastle Poems & Fancies 80 I wish, nor seek for vaine, and fruitlesse Pleasures, No Riches are, but what the Mind intreasures.
1828 C. Lamb Wife's Trial in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 772 She should entreasure up a secret In the peculiar closet of her breast.
1894 A. A. Furman Philip of Pokanoket iv. ii. 97 But ye the precious drops that stain its lips, I will entreasure.
2010 Jrnl. Asian Hist. 2 117 In 1021, Shengzong decreed an order to transport the seal and to entreasure it in the newly built Central Capital.
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1605 G. Chapman in B. Jonson Sejanus Commend. Verses sig. ¶3 He [sc. the jeweller] entreasures Princes Cabinets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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