exchequern.

Brit.

/ᵻksˈtʃɛkə/,

/ɛksˈtʃɛkə/, U.S.

/ɛksˈtʃɛkər/,

/ɪksˈtʃɛkər/

Forms: Middle English–1500s escheker(e, (Middle English eschekkere, Middle English esstcheker, estcheker), Middle English–1600s eschequer, eschequeer, excheker, exchekyr, (1500s escheaquer, eschequier, eschequour, 1600s exchecker), 1500s– exchequer.

Etymology: Middle English escheker , < Old French eschequier (modern French échiquier ) = Italian scaccario , medieval Latin scaccārium chessboard, < scaccus check, scacchi chess: see -arium suffix, -er suffix¹. The modern exchequer is a literary alteration, caused by mistaking es- in this word for the Old French es- < Latin ex- , as in eschange , Latin excambium , now exchange n., esploit , Latin explicitum , now exploit n., etc. When these words were refashioned after Latin analogies, escheker was altered in the same way. For the derivation see chequer n.¹, check int. and n.¹

†I. A chessboard.

1. A chessboard; = chequer n.¹ 1 to play at (to) the escheker: to play at chess. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > chessboard

exchequera1300

chess1303

chequerc1330

quek1376

tablerc1380

chessboard1474

tablier1474

chequerboard1597

chess-table1862

a1300 Floriz & Bl. 344 He wule come þe nier And bidde þe pleie at þe escheker. Whane þescheker is forþ ibroȝt Biþute panes ne plei þu noȝt.

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2224 Þo þat willieþ to leue at hame pleyeþ to þe eschekkere.

a1420 T. Hoccleve MS. Soc. Antiq. 134 f. 263 (Halliw.) And alle be hit that in that place square Of the listes, I mene the estcheker.

1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. i. 158 Ther ben as many poyntes in y^e eschequer wyde as full.

II. The King's Exchequer.

a. Under the Norman and Angevin kings of England: An office or department of state managed by the Treasurer, the Justiciary and the other judges of the King's Court, and certain Barons appointed by the King. Its functions combined the collection and administration of the royal revenues with the judicial determination of all causes relating to revenue. In the subsequent development of this institution, it was gradually divided into two distinct branches, the one being charged with judicial, the other with administrative functions: see 3, 4The name originally referred to the table covered with a cloth divided into squares, on which the accounts of the revenue were kept by means of counters. It is disputed whether the application of the word to the treasury and the tribunal connected with it originated in Normandy, or whether it was imported into Normandy from England. After Normandy became part of France, the supreme court of law in that province continued to bear the name of eschequier until the reign of Francis I, when this name was superseded by that of parlement.

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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government department or agency > [noun]

exchequerc1330

department of state1761

department1769

Foreign Office1784

Andrew Millar1867

Secretariat1926

1332 Literæ Cantuarienses (Rolls) I. cccclv. 480 Noz seriantz..vienent a Canterbire a nostre Eschekier pur loure acounte rendre.

1292 Britton i. i. §9 Ausi volums nous, qe a nos Eschekers a Westmoster et aylours eynt nos Thresorers et nos Barouns illucs jurisdiccioun.]

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 280 To Berwik cam þe kynge eschekere, Sir Hugh of Cressyngham he was chancelere, Walter of Admundesham he was tresorere.

1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) I. xi. 377 The Exchequer of the Norman kings was the court in which the whole financial business of the country was transacted.

b. Chancellor of the Exchequer: an officer originally appointed in the reign of Henry III. as assistant to the treasurer; now the responsible finance minister of the United Kingdom: see chancellor n. 2c.

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c. Exchequer of the Jews (Latin scaccarium Judæorum): in the thirteenth century, a department of the Exchequer which had charge of the collection of the revenues exacted from the Jews. (See C. Gross Exchequer of the Jews in Papers read at the Anglo-Jewish Exhibition, 1887.)

a. (More fully Court of Exchequer, Exchequer of Pleas.) A court of law, historically representing the Anglo-Norman exchequer in its judicial capacity. By the Judicature Act of 1873 it was converted into ‘The Exchequer Division’ of the High Court of Justice, and by Order in Council in 1881 this was merged in the Queen's Bench Division.The jurisdiction of the court was theoretically confined to matters of revenue, but in practice was gradually extended to all kinds of cases (except ‘real actions’) by means of the legal fiction that the wrong suffered by the plaintiff had rendered him unable to pay his debts to the king. In addition to its jurisdiction at common law, the court had a jurisdiction in equity, abolished in 1841. In its latest form it consisted of the Chief Baron and five judges, called the Barons of the Exchequer; the Chancellor of the Exchequer was in theory a member of it, and was entitled to a voice in its decisions when it sat in equity.

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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court of exchequer

chequer1178

exchequer1489

exchequer-court1721

1489–90 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 90 Your matter in the Excheker is grevous; there is iij wryttes agaynst you.

a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) v. vi. sig. H.iiij^v For sure I will put you vp into the Eschequer.

1661 J. Stephens Hist. Disc. Procur. 34 It is an hundred years since the Certificate upon the Commission of Melius inquirendum..was returned into the Exchequer.

1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. ii. 10 The Temple late two Brother Serjeants saw..One lull'd th' Exchequer, and one stunn'd the Rolls.

1816 J. Manning (title) The Practice of the Exchequer of Pleas.

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xiii. 349 The fines thus imposed upon jurors had been estreated into the exchequer.

figurative.1814 W. Scott Waverley II. i. 4 I cannot call you into Exchequer, if you do not think proper to read my narrative.

b. As the designation of analogous courts in Scotland and Ireland: see quots. The Exchequer of Scotland was abolished in 1856 (19 and 20 Vict. c. 6), its functions being transferred to the Court of Session.

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1816 Encycl. Perthensis (ed. 2) IX. 204/2 The court of exchequer in Scotland has the same privileges and jurisdiction as that of England.

1833 Act 3 & 4 William IV c. 13 All the Powers at present exercised by the said Barons of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland shall from and after the passing of this Act cease and determine.

a. The office or department of the public service, which is charged with the receipt and custody of the moneys collected by the several departments of revenue.In early use not distinguished from treasury n.; but the department of state called the Treasury has not since the 15th century exercised directly the function etymologically indicated by its name. The office charged with the custody of the revenues was in theory a branch of the Court of Exchequer (see 3), and was sometimes called the Lower Exchequer, the Exchequer of Receipt, or Receipt of Exchequer, to distinguish it from the judicial branch ( Exchequer of Pleas). By the Exchequer and Audit Act 1866, the offices of Comptroller of the Exchequer and Auditor General, and the departments over which they presided, were united.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > department managing public money

treasuryc1383

exchequera1420

chequer1425

chequer-chambera1513

fiscal1590

fisc1599

fiscus1650

a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 68 Syn thou maist not be paied in the escheker.

c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1714) 43 The expensys of which Houshold may sone be estemyd..by the Clerks of the Escheker.

1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xiii To be one of his [sc. the kynges] chamberlaynes of his receyte of his eschequyer.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. viii. f. 133^v The fyfthe portion dewe to the kynges Excheker.

1601 F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edward II (1876) §4. 7 The Contrerollour ought to keepe a countre roll against the tresorer of the warderobe..and testefy it in thexcheker upon the thresorers account.

1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Cc2/2 The other [part of the court] is called the receit of the Eschequer, which is properly imploied in the receiuing and paiment of money.

1638 Duke of Hamilton in Hamilton Papers (1880) 54 Itt onlie restheth hou he shall be payed, for in your excheker heire ther is none.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Exchequer is more particularly used for a chamber, or apartment, in Westminster-hall, consisting of two parts..the lower Exchequer.

1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. v. lxiv. 514 The money is lying in the exchequer to discharge the interest of the old debt.

1852 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. II. vi. 110 His [sc. Grenville's] desire was for..a tellership in the exchequer.

b. the Exchequer: short for ‘the contents of the Exchequer’.

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1671 C. Hatton in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 62 Y^e exchequer is at soe low an ebbe.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 5 The Exchequer being so exhausted with the debts of King James.

a. In extended sense: A royal or national treasury.

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society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > of a sovereign or state

exchequer1565

fiscal1590

fisc1599

finances1656

the public purse1659

public finance1676

Consolidated Fund1753

federal fund1836

money supply1871

treasury-chest1877

Federal Reserve1913

Fed1942

monetary aggregate1946

1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Ad ærarium rationes has referre, to bring in his accompt to the escheker.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiv. xxiv. 525 The souldiours were..dayly mainteined and fed out of the Kings eschequer.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 60 The exchequer for Hungary is kept at Presburg.

a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) iv. 285 For the benefit of his exchequer, he might sell the rest for slaves to his Christian subjects in Spain and Italy.

1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. xi. 471 A surplus revenue and an unembarrassed exchequer.

1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. ii. 37 It seemed to his Spanish subjects that he rarely visited them, except when his exchequer required to be replenished.

b. figurative. (Common in 17th cent.; now rare.)

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1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. **4 The Exchequer of eloquence Sir Ihon Cheeke.

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. K3 He would..bee a more rare Exchequer of the Muses, than rich Gaza was for wealth.

1633 T. Heywood Eng. Trav. ii, in Wks. (1874) IV. 31 Of all the Treasures of my Hopes and Loue, You were th' Exchequer, they were Stor'd in you.

1660 R. Boyle Seraphic Love (1700) xiv. 91 Love itself (that poor man's Surety and Exchequer).

1737 M. Green Spleen (R.) School-helps I want, to..commit a theft On wealth in Greek exchequers left.

1881 G. W. Cable Mme. Delphine ii. 10 The soul of honour..frank—the very exchequer of truth.

6. transferred. The pecuniary possessions, the ‘cash-box’, ‘purse’, of a private person, a society, etc.

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society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > of an individual or company

exchequer1619

finances1686

bank balance1805

fisc1820

one's own poke-nook1821

roll1846

bankroll1849

the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > of valued things

treasuryc1384

jewel house1549

chequer1597

exchequer1619

chest1662

1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. 324 The poor should liue vpon their own eschequer.

a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 455 A Palace and a Coach, an Exchequer full of Gold..are all the grounds of the respect that they pay us.

1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 517 A command, or call to be Liberal..shuts up every private Man's Exchequer.

1823 C. Lamb Two Races of Men in Elia 55 These were..feeders of his exchequer..to whom he had occasionally been beholden for a loan.

1855 W. M. Thackeray Fatal Boots iii The..impoverished state of my exchequer.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

exchequer-book n.

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a1819 R. Watt Bibliotheca Brit. (1824) I. 410/1 The Exchequer Book, entitled Liber Niger Scaccarii.

exchequer-bullion n.

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1805 P. L. D. Bonhote (title) Logarithm Tables, adapted to the calculation of Exchequer Bullion.

exchequer-chancellor n. (rare)

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1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI xcviii. 113 All Exchequer Chancellors endeavour..to dispense with Cocker's rigours.

exchequer-standard n.

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1653 R. Mason in J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) Let. to Author Let. to Author, And so insolently violate the Exchequer standard of Heaven without a blush.

C2. Also exchequer-chamber n.

exchequer-bill n. a bill of credit issued by authority of Parliament (first in 1696), bearing interest at the current rate.

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1701 London Gaz. No. 3694/4 Lost..3 Exchequer Bills of 5l. each.

1801 Ann. Reg. 1799 (Otridge ed.) i. 191/1 Exchequer-bills to the amount of £3,000,000.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 698 In the midst of the general distress and confusion appeared the first Exchequer Bills.

exchequer-bill-office n. the office where exchequer-bills are issued and received.

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1813 Examiner 12 Apr. 237/1 A crowd of brokers..beset the Exchequer-Bill-Office.

exchequer-bond n. a bond (see bond n.¹ 10) issued by the Exchequer at a fixed rate of interest and for a fixed period.

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1859 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce 611 In 1853 Exchequer Bonds were issued bearing interest at 2¾ per cent. for ten years.

exchequer-court n. = Court of Exchequer at sense 3a; also, ‘the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of York’ (Bailey).

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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court of exchequer

chequer1178

exchequer1489

exchequer-court1721

1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Exchequer Court.

1853 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (ed. 2) 401 A merchant of London was brought before the exchequer court for not paying tonnage and poundage.

exchequer-man n. an official of the exchequer.

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1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 223 1 We shall lack no Eschequer man to put vs in shute.

1625 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 207 The Exchequer-man making his profit from the Kings wants.

exchequer-note n. = exchequer-bill n.

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1795 Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 1796, 70/1 The discount given occasionally on Exchequer notes was equally discreditable and alarming.

exchequer-tallies n. (see tally n.¹), the notched sticks with which the accounts of the Exchequer were formerly kept.

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1668 J. Child Brief Observ. Trade 12 Such as have disposed of his Majesties Exchequer-Tallies.

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单词	exchequer
释义	exchequern. Brit. /ᵻksˈtʃɛkə/, /ɛksˈtʃɛkə/, U.S. /ɛksˈtʃɛkər/, /ɪksˈtʃɛkər/ Forms: Middle English–1500s escheker(e, (Middle English eschekkere, Middle English esstcheker, estcheker), Middle English–1600s eschequer, eschequeer, excheker, exchekyr, (1500s escheaquer, eschequier, eschequour, 1600s exchecker), 1500s– exchequer. Etymology: Middle English escheker , < Old French eschequier (modern French échiquier ) = Italian scaccario , medieval Latin scaccārium chessboard, < scaccus check, scacchi chess: see -arium suffix, -er suffix¹. The modern exchequer is a literary alteration, caused by mistaking es- in this word for the Old French es- < Latin ex- , as in eschange , Latin excambium , now exchange n., esploit , Latin explicitum , now exploit n., etc. When these words were refashioned after Latin analogies, escheker was altered in the same way. For the derivation see chequer n.¹, check int. and n.¹ †I. A chessboard. 1. A chessboard; = chequer n.¹ 1 to play at (to) the escheker: to play at chess. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > chessboard exchequera1300 chess1303 chequerc1330 quek1376 tablerc1380 chessboard1474 tablier1474 chequerboard1597 chess-table1862 a1300 Floriz & Bl. 344 He wule come þe nier And bidde þe pleie at þe escheker. Whane þescheker is forþ ibroȝt Biþute panes ne plei þu noȝt. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2224 Þo þat willieþ to leue at hame pleyeþ to þe eschekkere. a1420 T. Hoccleve MS. Soc. Antiq. 134 f. 263 (Halliw.) And alle be hit that in that place square Of the listes, I mene the estcheker. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. i. 158 Ther ben as many poyntes in y^e eschequer wyde as full. II. The King's Exchequer. 2. a. Under the Norman and Angevin kings of England: An office or department of state managed by the Treasurer, the Justiciary and the other judges of the King's Court, and certain Barons appointed by the King. Its functions combined the collection and administration of the royal revenues with the judicial determination of all causes relating to revenue. In the subsequent development of this institution, it was gradually divided into two distinct branches, the one being charged with judicial, the other with administrative functions: see 3, 4The name originally referred to the table covered with a cloth divided into squares, on which the accounts of the revenue were kept by means of counters. It is disputed whether the application of the word to the treasury and the tribunal connected with it originated in Normandy, or whether it was imported into Normandy from England. After Normandy became part of France, the supreme court of law in that province continued to bear the name of eschequier until the reign of Francis I, when this name was superseded by that of parlement. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government department or agency > [noun] exchequerc1330 department of state1761 department1769 Foreign Office1784 Andrew Millar1867 Secretariat1926 1332 Literæ Cantuarienses (Rolls) I. cccclv. 480 Noz seriantz..vienent a Canterbire a nostre Eschekier pur loure acounte rendre. 1292 Britton i. i. §9 Ausi volums nous, qe a nos Eschekers a Westmoster et aylours eynt nos Thresorers et nos Barouns illucs jurisdiccioun.] c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 280 To Berwik cam þe kynge eschekere, Sir Hugh of Cressyngham he was chancelere, Walter of Admundesham he was tresorere. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) I. xi. 377 The Exchequer of the Norman kings was the court in which the whole financial business of the country was transacted. b. Chancellor of the Exchequer: an officer originally appointed in the reign of Henry III. as assistant to the treasurer; now the responsible finance minister of the United Kingdom: see chancellor n. 2c. Thesaurus » Categories » c. Exchequer of the Jews (Latin scaccarium Judæorum): in the thirteenth century, a department of the Exchequer which had charge of the collection of the revenues exacted from the Jews. (See C. Gross Exchequer of the Jews in Papers read at the Anglo-Jewish Exhibition, 1887.) 3. a. (More fully Court of Exchequer, Exchequer of Pleas.) A court of law, historically representing the Anglo-Norman exchequer in its judicial capacity. By the Judicature Act of 1873 it was converted into ‘The Exchequer Division’ of the High Court of Justice, and by Order in Council in 1881 this was merged in the Queen's Bench Division.The jurisdiction of the court was theoretically confined to matters of revenue, but in practice was gradually extended to all kinds of cases (except ‘real actions’) by means of the legal fiction that the wrong suffered by the plaintiff had rendered him unable to pay his debts to the king. In addition to its jurisdiction at common law, the court had a jurisdiction in equity, abolished in 1841. In its latest form it consisted of the Chief Baron and five judges, called the Barons of the Exchequer; the Chancellor of the Exchequer was in theory a member of it, and was entitled to a voice in its decisions when it sat in equity. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court of exchequer chequer1178 exchequer1489 exchequer-court1721 1489–90 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 90 Your matter in the Excheker is grevous; there is iij wryttes agaynst you. a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) v. vi. sig. H.iiij^v For sure I will put you vp into the Eschequer. 1661 J. Stephens Hist. Disc. Procur. 34 It is an hundred years since the Certificate upon the Commission of Melius inquirendum..was returned into the Exchequer. 1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. ii. 10 The Temple late two Brother Serjeants saw..One lull'd th' Exchequer, and one stunn'd the Rolls. 1816 J. Manning (title) The Practice of the Exchequer of Pleas. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xiii. 349 The fines thus imposed upon jurors had been estreated into the exchequer. figurative.1814 W. Scott Waverley II. i. 4 I cannot call you into Exchequer, if you do not think proper to read my narrative. View more context for this quotation b. As the designation of analogous courts in Scotland and Ireland: see quots. The Exchequer of Scotland was abolished in 1856 (19 and 20 Vict. c. 6), its functions being transferred to the Court of Session. ΚΠ 1816 Encycl. Perthensis (ed. 2) IX. 204/2 The court of exchequer in Scotland has the same privileges and jurisdiction as that of England. 1833 Act 3 & 4 William IV c. 13 All the Powers at present exercised by the said Barons of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland shall from and after the passing of this Act cease and determine. 4. a. The office or department of the public service, which is charged with the receipt and custody of the moneys collected by the several departments of revenue.In early use not distinguished from treasury n.; but the department of state called the Treasury has not since the 15th century exercised directly the function etymologically indicated by its name. The office charged with the custody of the revenues was in theory a branch of the Court of Exchequer (see 3), and was sometimes called the Lower Exchequer, the Exchequer of Receipt, or Receipt of Exchequer, to distinguish it from the judicial branch ( Exchequer of Pleas). By the Exchequer and Audit Act 1866, the offices of Comptroller of the Exchequer and Auditor General, and the departments over which they presided, were united. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > department managing public money treasuryc1383 exchequera1420 chequer1425 chequer-chambera1513 fiscal1590 fisc1599 fiscus1650 a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 68 Syn thou maist not be paied in the escheker. c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1714) 43 The expensys of which Houshold may sone be estemyd..by the Clerks of the Escheker. 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xiii To be one of his [sc. the kynges] chamberlaynes of his receyte of his eschequyer. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. viii. f. 133^v The fyfthe portion dewe to the kynges Excheker. 1601 F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edward II (1876) §4. 7 The Contrerollour ought to keepe a countre roll against the tresorer of the warderobe..and testefy it in thexcheker upon the thresorers account. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Cc2/2 The other [part of the court] is called the receit of the Eschequer, which is properly imploied in the receiuing and paiment of money. 1638 Duke of Hamilton in Hamilton Papers (1880) 54 Itt onlie restheth hou he shall be payed, for in your excheker heire ther is none. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Exchequer is more particularly used for a chamber, or apartment, in Westminster-hall, consisting of two parts..the lower Exchequer. 1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. v. lxiv. 514 The money is lying in the exchequer to discharge the interest of the old debt. 1852 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. II. vi. 110 His [sc. Grenville's] desire was for..a tellership in the exchequer. b. the Exchequer: short for ‘the contents of the Exchequer’. ΚΠ 1671 C. Hatton in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 62 Y^e exchequer is at soe low an ebbe. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 5 The Exchequer being so exhausted with the debts of King James. 5. a. In extended sense: A royal or national treasury. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > of a sovereign or state exchequer1565 fiscal1590 fisc1599 finances1656 the public purse1659 public finance1676 Consolidated Fund1753 federal fund1836 money supply1871 treasury-chest1877 Federal Reserve1913 Fed1942 monetary aggregate1946 1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Ad ærarium rationes has referre, to bring in his accompt to the escheker. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiv. xxiv. 525 The souldiours were..dayly mainteined and fed out of the Kings eschequer. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 60 The exchequer for Hungary is kept at Presburg. a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) iv. 285 For the benefit of his exchequer, he might sell the rest for slaves to his Christian subjects in Spain and Italy. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. xi. 471 A surplus revenue and an unembarrassed exchequer. 1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. ii. 37 It seemed to his Spanish subjects that he rarely visited them, except when his exchequer required to be replenished. b. figurative. (Common in 17th cent.; now rare.) ΚΠ 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. *4 The Exchequer of eloquence Sir Ihon Cheeke. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden* sig. K3 He would..bee a more rare Exchequer of the Muses, than rich Gaza was for wealth. 1633 T. Heywood Eng. Trav. ii, in Wks. (1874) IV. 31 Of all the Treasures of my Hopes and Loue, You were th' Exchequer, they were Stor'd in you. 1660 R. Boyle Seraphic Love (1700) xiv. 91 Love itself (that poor man's Surety and Exchequer). 1737 M. Green Spleen (R.) School-helps I want, to..commit a theft On wealth in Greek exchequers left. 1881 G. W. Cable Mme. Delphine ii. 10 The soul of honour..frank—the very exchequer of truth. 6. transferred. The pecuniary possessions, the ‘cash-box’, ‘purse’, of a private person, a society, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > of an individual or company exchequer1619 finances1686 bank balance1805 fisc1820 one's own poke-nook1821 roll1846 bankroll1849 the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > of valued things treasuryc1384 jewel house1549 chequer1597 exchequer1619 chest1662 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. 324 The poor should liue vpon their own eschequer. a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 455 A Palace and a Coach, an Exchequer full of Gold..are all the grounds of the respect that they pay us. 1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 517 A command, or call to be Liberal..shuts up every private Man's Exchequer. 1823 C. Lamb Two Races of Men in Elia 55 These were..feeders of his exchequer..to whom he had occasionally been beholden for a loan. 1855 W. M. Thackeray Fatal Boots iii The..impoverished state of my exchequer. Compounds C1. General attributive. exchequer-book n. ΚΠ a1819 R. Watt Bibliotheca Brit. (1824) I. 410/1 The Exchequer Book, entitled Liber Niger Scaccarii. exchequer-bullion n. ΚΠ 1805 P. L. D. Bonhote (title) Logarithm Tables, adapted to the calculation of Exchequer Bullion. exchequer-chancellor n. (rare) ΚΠ 1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI xcviii. 113 All Exchequer Chancellors endeavour..to dispense with Cocker's rigours. exchequer-standard n. ΚΠ 1653 R. Mason in J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) Let. to Author Let. to Author, And so insolently violate the Exchequer standard of Heaven without a blush. C2. Also exchequer-chamber n. exchequer-bill n. a bill of credit issued by authority of Parliament (first in 1696), bearing interest at the current rate. ΚΠ 1701 London Gaz. No. 3694/4 Lost..3 Exchequer Bills of 5l. each. 1801 Ann. Reg. 1799 (Otridge ed.) i. 191/1 Exchequer-bills to the amount of £3,000,000. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 698 In the midst of the general distress and confusion appeared the first Exchequer Bills. exchequer-bill-office n. the office where exchequer-bills are issued and received. ΚΠ 1813 Examiner 12 Apr. 237/1 A crowd of brokers..beset the Exchequer-Bill-Office. exchequer-bond n. a bond (see bond n.¹ 10) issued by the Exchequer at a fixed rate of interest and for a fixed period. ΚΠ 1859 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce 611 In 1853 Exchequer Bonds were issued bearing interest at 2¾ per cent. for ten years. exchequer-court n. = Court of Exchequer at sense 3a; also, ‘the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of York’ (Bailey). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court of exchequer chequer1178 exchequer1489 exchequer-court1721 1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Exchequer Court. 1853 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (ed. 2) 401 A merchant of London was brought before the exchequer court for not paying tonnage and poundage. exchequer-man n. an official of the exchequer. ΚΠ 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 223 1 We shall lack no Eschequer man to put vs in shute. 1625 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 207 The Exchequer-man making his profit from the Kings wants. exchequer-note n. = exchequer-bill n. ΚΠ 1795 Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 1796, 70/1 The discount given occasionally on Exchequer notes was equally discreditable and alarming. exchequer-tallies n. (see tally n.¹), the notched sticks with which the accounts of the Exchequer were formerly kept. ΚΠ 1668 J. Child Brief Observ. Trade 12 Such as have disposed of his Majesties Exchequer-Tallies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). exchequerv. Brit. /ᵻksˈtʃɛkə/, /ɛksˈtʃɛkə/, U.S. /ɛksˈtʃɛkər/, /ɪksˈtʃɛkər/ Etymology: < exchequer n. 1. transitive. To place in an exchequer or treasury; to treasure up. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > treasury > [verb (transitive)] > place in a treasury entreasure?a1439 chequer?1605 exchequer?1706 ?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. vii. 67 Vast Bulk and Heaps of Treasure exchequer'd in the Lateran Palace. 2. a. To proceed against (a person) in the Court of Exchequer. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > carry on or institute (an action) [verb (transitive)] > sue or institute action against > in specific court libel1805 exchequer1811 county court1835 1811 Ann. Reg. 1809 (Otridge ed.) Chron. 408/2 The lord was exchequered; that is, the attorney-general filed his information against him. 1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows III. xl. 71 If ever he heard of Titus..shooting..on his grounds again, he would exchequer him as sure as he was born. 1864 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. IV. 215 Anselm was Exchequered for the imputed fault. b. (See quot. 1867). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [verb (transitive)] > confiscate or sequestrate to state > seize as contraband exchequer1828 1828 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 38 93 The vessel was seized by a custom-house officer, brought back and exchequered. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Exchequered, seized by government officers as contraband. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1300v.?1706
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