grantn.1
/ɡrɑːnt/, /ɡrant/, U.S. /ɡrænt/ The action of granting; the thing granted.† 1.
a. Consent, permission.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun]
leaveeOE
yleaveOE
willOE
grant?c1225
thaving?c1225
grantisea1300
licence1362
grace1389
pardona1425
libertyc1425
patiencec1425
permission1425
sufferingc1460
congee1477
legencea1500
withganga1500
favour1574
beleve1575
permittance1580
withgate1599
passage1622
sufferage1622
attolerance1676
sanction1738
permiss-
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 175 Þeo fechteð treoweliche. þet..hwich se eauer þe lust beo..wið seggeð þe grant þer of.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 119 By graunt of Kingislus, kyng of West Saxon, þe firste Birinus ordeyned a cee at Dorchestre.
1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 39 He hath oblisshed him-self, bi his avow and his owen graunt, to [etc.].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8380 Giue it to quam-sum þou will, For mi grant sal þou haf þer-till.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 317 Ȝet of graunt þou myȝtez fayle.
c1450 J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests 399 But heo haue grawnte of hyre husbonde.
1575 G. Gascoigne Fruites of Warre cxvi, in Posies sig. Ivv The noble Prince gaue graunt to my request.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. i. sig. A3v Could I auoyde to giue a seeming graunt Vnto fruition of Antonios loue?
1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age i. sig. B2v Gaine by thy grant, life; thy deniall, death.
1648 R. Boyle Seraphic Love (1660) 46 [You] might have found yourself as sensibly disappointed by her Grant, as you were by her Change.
b. Promise.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun]
hoteOE
behotec1000
behesta1200
hesta1200
troth?c1225
quidec1275
promissiona1325
hightc1330
avauntc1380
grantc1380
forbehesta1400
promise1423
promit1462
behete1470
fiance1470
behightc1475
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 86 Þei hadden graunt of Crist þat he Wolde algatis have mercy.
?c1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Arms) l. 17956 Whenne fyue þousonde ȝeer are past..þenne shal god his grante fulfille.
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. vi To perfourme your hestes & your graunt.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 76 The King was blyth..Of the grant that he had maid.
1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes f. 5 A wife, a queane, did make the Frenche a graunte Upon this rocke, in sight of Leeth to stande.
c. Admission, acknowledgement. Also, what is agreed to, promised, admitted, etc. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > statement > acceptance, reception, or admission > [noun] > an admission
grant1503
recognition1523
admission1586
1503 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 431 It was sufficiently pruit befor the said assis, and als be his avne gravnt, that the said William [etc.].
1552 T. Wilson Rule of Reason (rev. ed.) sig. Ij This is the vse of Reduction by a contradictorie, violently to force the graunt of our saiyng.
1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare iii. 156 By M. Hardinges owne graunte, wee may iustly claime prescription.
a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) ii. vi. §4 To grant that we may wish death to be in heaven..is..somewhat more dangerous..a graunt.
1631 G. Chapman Warres of Pompey & Caesar in Plays (1873) III. 177 Your happy exposition of that place..Euicts glad grant from me you hold a truth.
1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms Pref. ¶ 31. sig. (c)3 The very objection is a grant that the Psalms contein devotions [etc.].
1667 J. Dryden Indian Emperour ii. ii. 19 This grant destroys all you have urg'd before.
2. The action of according (a request, a favour asked for).
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the mind > possession > giving > [noun] > granting
titheeOE
yating?c1225
grant?a1366
granting1609
affordment1623
yieldancea1656
vouchsafement1666
accordance1827
according1834
?a1366 Romaunt Rose 851 She of hir love graunt him made.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 363 There is no graunt made lyberally, if it be demaunded neglygently.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 300 The fairest graunt is the necessitie. View more context for this quotation
1624 N. De Lawne tr. P. Du Moulin Elements Logick 86 If a Prince hath granted something to one Citizen, another Citizen may pretend, that the like grant ought to be made unto him also.
1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 1148 The grant of Remission was wholly in his will and pleasure.
1828 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor VI. xxix. 277 Punished with the grant of my wishes.
1892 Ld. Esher in Law Times Rep. 67 211/2 The grant or refusal of an injunction upon a matter of law is appealable.
3.
a. An authoritative bestowal or conferment of a privilege, right, or possession; a gift or assignment of money, etc. by the act of an administrative body or of a person in control of a fund or the like.
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the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > grant or boon
bountyc1250
tithinga1300
grantc1380
blessing1382
vouchsafement1629
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 348 But ȝif þei han oþir title þan ben bullis of þe pope, or graunt of him, þei [etc.].
1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Civ Heare is to se Your seale at a graunte of a pluralitie.
1673 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 67 I know not whether Mr Brunker may have deceiv'd you in his assurances concerning ye Grant of ye Phœnix Parke.
1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 174 To oblige the Persons, who..are in Possession..by virtue of old Grants, either to settle, or sell them [lands].
1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. iii, in Hist. Wks. (1813) I. 231 The grant of the earldom of Murray to the prior of St. Andrews was confirmed.
1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lxvii. 306 You hastened the grant, with an expedition unknown to the Treasury.
1824 ‘R. Stuart’ Descr. Hist. Steam Engine 34 Fifty years after the grant of the patent.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands II. 69 His [Pepin's] invasion had been preceded by his famous Grant to the Popes.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 539 He obtained a grant of all the lands..belonging to Jesuits in five or six counties.
1870 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Gleanings 2nd Ser. 234 The primary business of both houses was the grant of money.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §3. 481 The Commons restricted their grant of certain Customs duties..to a single year.
b. The thing granted; a tract of land, a sum of money, etc. which is the subject of a formal grant. Also capitation-grant (see capitation n. Compounds); grant in aid of: see also grant-in-aid n.
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society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [noun] > by deed or charter > that which is granted
concession1536
grant1815
1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul iv. i. 474 The revenues..are consumed in grants to learned and religious men.
1851 H. Martineau Introd. Hist. Peace (1877) III. v. iv. 246 In 1834 the government obtained from Parliament the first grant in aid of education.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxiv. 169 A small grant of money to purchase thermometers, &c.
1869 R. T. Claridge Cold-water Cure 136 Jenner..was voted two grants in parliament.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 355 The Chambers voted a grant towards the expenses.
1897 Mag. of Art Sept. 254 The trustees of polytechnics are apt to judge of the success of the classes by the amount of grant earned.
4. Law. (a) A conveyance by deed or other written instrument. †(b) Formerly in more restricted application: A conveyance of such property (viz. incorporeal hereditaments) as can pass only by deed. to be (also lie) in grant: (of property) to be of a nature transferable only by deed.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [noun] > by deed or charter
conveyance1523
assurance1583
granta1599
society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [verb (transitive)] > grant by charter or deed
bookOE
convey1495
assure1572
reassure1592
granta1599
grant1766
deed1816
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 5 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The act of the Parent in any lawfull graunt or conveyance.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Kk4/1 A thing is said to lie in graunte, which cannot be assigned with out deede.
a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 61 Grants are never countermandable..in respect of the nature of the conveyance.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. §259. 172 Grant. Concessio is in the Common law a conueyance of a thing that lies in grant, and not in Liuerie, which cannot passe without Deed.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 362 Heaven is theirs in the grant and reversion.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 317 Grants, concessiones; the regular method by the common law of transferring the property of incorporeal hereditaments, or, such things whereof no livery can be had.
1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 1053 Where the plaintiff complains of an injury to an easement, it will be incumbent on him (unless he can shew an express grant) to carry his evidence..as far back as possible.
1845 J. Williams Princ. Law Real Prop. i. i. 17 A grant to A. B. simply now confers but an estate for his life.
1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon (at cited word) A grant of personalty is more properly termed an assignment or a bill of sale.
5. Chiefly U.S. The name given to a portion of land in the occupation of specified persons. New Hampshire Grants: now the State of Vermont.
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1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 321 Silver Mines lately discovered to be within the Grant of Monsieur Croizat.
1777 A. Hamilton Let. 29 July in Papers (1961) I. 295 They may be obliged to increase their attention to this matter by keeping a body of men somewhere about the grants.
1842 L. Munsell Let. 17 Aug. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 133 There [were] only a few hunters just below the falls, or what is called Clark's grant.
1863 New Amer. Cycl. XVI. 73/2 The country west of the Connecticut was only known at that time [1760] by the name of ‘New Hampshire grants’.
1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) IV. xxv. 502 Men poured in from towns in the Grants.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. (In sense 3b.)
grant-money n.
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1893 Westm. Gaz. 27 May 5/1 A number of men have been ‘hustled’ out of the place in order to get their grant money.
b.
grant-earner n.
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1909 Daily Chron. 8 Sept. 6/3 Boys who will reach this age [14] between now and next Easter are inferior grant-earners as compared with boys who can put in a full year's attendance.
grant-earning adj.
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1892 Daily News 19 Oct. 5/4 The attendance of considerable numbers of grant-earning children.
1900 H. G. Wells Love & Mr. Lewisham xxv. 231 Some grant-earning grammar-school.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 16 Feb. 146/1 (advt.) In Britain, Canadian Douglas fir plywood has been designated a grant-earning material.
grant-giving adj.
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1963 Higher Educ.: Rep. Comm. under Ld. Robbins 213 in Parl. Papers 1962–3 (Cmnd. 2154) XI. 639 The increased burden on the local grant-giving authorities.
1964 J. S. Huxley Ess. Humanist 267 The great grant-giving..agencies such as the U.N. [etc.].
C2. † grant-parole n. Obsolete ? respite.
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1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse v. vi. 19 in Wks. II H'hath sent thee, grant-paroll by me to stay longer A moneth here on earth.
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grantn.2
/ɡrɑːnt/, /ɡrant/, U.S. /ɡrænt/ U.S.
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‘In brewing, a copper or iron vessel into which the wort flows from the clarifying battery, and from which it is lifted into the wort-pan’ ( Cent. Dict.).
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grantv.
/ɡrɑːnt/, /ɡrant/, U.S. /ɡrænt/ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > agreement > consent > [verb (intransitive)]
consent?c1225
assent1297
vouchsafe13..
choosec1330
grant1340
to be consentedc1386
to be covined1393
apply1419
condescend1477
agreea1533
acconsent1560
acclaim1620
comply1672
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 225 Þe ilke bernþ þet to zenne graunteþ.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Hypermnestra. 2665 [Egiste commanded his daughter, with threats, to kill her husband;] And, for to passyn harmles of that place, She grauntyth hym.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 338 He..graunteth with hem for to wende.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16851 Ioseph..granted neuer wit wil ne werc, to þair gret felunni.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxx. 138 Þai graunted at do all þat he wald bidd þam do.
c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 250 I graunte to be his derlynge.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 198 Þe freendys prayed þe preest to ley þe dede body on his asse. Þerto grauntyd he hem.
1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 12 At these wordes graunted Parys to goo to the sayd Ioustes.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 352 I grant thar-till To ly heir mair war litill skill.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxliii. 363 He graunted to the warr with an yuell wyll.
a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Aiv Assigning me To the altar: whereto they graunted all.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) i. i. 246 The Souldiers should haue toss'd me on their Pikes, Before I would haue granted to that Act. View more context for this quotation
2. transitive. To agree to, promise, undertake.† a. Const. dative of person, and accusative of thing. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > consent > consent to [verb (transitive)] > deign to do
grantc1305
vouchsafea1350
beteem1567
vouch1589
condescend1599
c1305 St. Cristopher 77 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 61 He grantede þis anon.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1423 Ðo gan ðat moder and laban Rebecca freinen ðor for-ðan, And ghe it grantede mildelike.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 243 She graunteth and behight him this.
a1400–50 Alexander 516 ‘Þat graunt I gudly,’ quod þe gome.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 978 And he hir graunted þat gate with a good wille.
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Henry VI. xxvii Aduise wel ere they graunt, but what they graunt, perfourme.
b. with infinitive (preceded by to) or clause as object. Obsolete except in legal documents.
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c1420 Chron. Vilod. st. 141 Þe Kyng of Denmark ȝold hym anon þo And granted crystenmon ever to be.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope ii. xi To promytte & graunte to gyue to the that whiche thou neuer leuest to me.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin ii. 23 They that shull come to seche me, haue graunted their lorde that they shull me sle.
1512 J. Wastell in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 609 The said John Wastell graunteth to gyff...xx. markes.
1558 Dunkyn's Mortgage to Vicary in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. v. 186 The said Thomas Dunkyn..couenaunteth and graunteth, to and with the said Thomas Vycary..that if he [etc.].
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 319 Doe you grant to hold and keep the Laws and rightfull Customes which the Comonalty of your Realm shall have chosen?
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 68 A. covenanted, granted, and agreed that B. should have the land.
3. To accede to, consent to fulfil (a request, prayer, wish, etc.).
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > consent > consent to [verb (transitive)] > concede to or comply with
granta1250
i-yettc1275
listenc1290
to listen onc1330
submita1387
consent1393
tenderc1430
servec1450
ottroye1477
admit1529
yield1572
closea1616
concede1632
comply1650
to fall in1651
to come into ——1704
give way1758
accordc1820
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 14 Holdeð hine ueste uort he habbe igranted ou al þet ȝe euer wulleð.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 20/33 And grauntede al his bone.
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 7062 Þe bet we wolleþ cweme þe ȝef þou þis wolt granti me [c1275 Calig. ȝif þu þis ȝettest me].
1340 Ayenb. 264 He ansuereþ he ne may naʒt zigge bote yef þer by heʒliche clom. Huyche y-graunted þus he begynþ.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 182 The souldan graunteth her axinge.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13988 Iesus grant him his praier.
c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 3878 So crist..what eure sho wille aske grauntis he hire fauourably.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig.C.iii.v If I shulde graunt you at al tymes your affections and desyres.
1600 J. Lane Tom Tel-Troths Message 110 O graunt my suit.
1721 tr. Georgics i, in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. (ed. 5) I. 214 Use thy self betimes to hear and grant our Pray'rs.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. iii. 90 Grant me then the only request I have to make.
1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland vi. 143 The authorities at once cheerfully granted them all that they asked.
4. † b. With a thing as subject or as indirect object: To allow to have. Obsolete.† c. To sanction, permit (an action). Obsolete.
a. To allow or concede as an indulgence; to permit or suffer (a person) to have (something); to bestow or confer as a favour, or in answer to a request. Const. dative of person, and accusative of thing.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > grant or allow to have
lenda900
unneeOE
titheeOE
i-unneeOE
reachOE
aleneOE
yatea1122
yielda1225
grant1297
vouchsafe1303
agrauntea1400
octroy1480
vouchsafe1587
beteem1600
stretch1711
accordc1820
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 11552 Leue him was igraunted god wot to wuch ende.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 25340 Grant vs þi maght til oþer sua forgiue þair sin, þat [etc.].
c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 188 Sheo ne graunted him in hir lyvynge No grace.
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 132 First Crist apperide to þes holy wommen, fer to graunt a privylegie to womman's kynde.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 219 God to hem that ben well thewed Hath yove and graunted the victoire.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2506 Was nan þai raght þai grantid grith.
c1400 Rom. Rose 2986 He me graunted ful gladly The passage of the outer hay.
a1450 Knt. de la Tour H iv b He graunted his [Absalon's] grace and pardon.
c1450 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (BL Add. 36983) p. 1650 Þe archibisshop..Haþ graunted xl daies to pardoun To alle þat þis vie wol here.
1484 Surtees Misc. (1888) 41 God graunte & gyff thaym joy and comforth.
a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 456 Grant ws dais three.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. ix. sig. Nn2 To onely thee thou seest we graunt this speciall grace Vs to attend.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xviii. 93 When he has granted all he can, if we grant back the Soveraignty, all is restored.
c1709 M. Prior 1st Hymn Callimachus 116 Great father! grant us virtue, grant us wealth.
1711 Fingall MSS in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 172 By his granting better conditions to the garrison.
1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 102 Granting him a delay of three days.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 208 It was an Act purporting to grant entire liberty of conscience to all Christian sects.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. viii. 60 He had..the good sense..to grant me the liberty I requested.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems xvii. 7 This rare favour, a laugh for all time, Colonia, grant me.
1885 M. Collins Prettiest Woman in Warsaw I. x. 165 Why might he not..grant himself one more sight of her at the door of the church?
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c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 105 Thikke and drie, espie & graunte hit rest.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. vi. 98 A smal valve..grants entrance to the blood into the right Ventricle.
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c1386 G. Chaucer Melibeus 22 Attempree weping is nothing defended to him that sorweful is..but it is rather graunted him to wepe..But thogh attempree weping bee y-graunted, outrageous weping certes is defended.
d. with infinitive or clause as object; rarely with object and complement.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > permit [verb (transitive)] > permit as an indulgence
grantc1250
vouchsafe1338
indulgence1599
indult1615
indulge1638
c1250 Old Kent. Serm. in Old Eng. Misc. 36 Þider lord granti us to cumene.
c1380 J. Wyclif Last Age Church p. xxxvi Þe whiche semlant he graunte us to see.
a1400–50 Alexander 1826 Bot wald ȝe grant vs to gaa & gefe vs ȝour lefe.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. viii. 51 O hie princes, quham to Jupiter hes grant To beild ane new cietie.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xxvi. B Graunte, that we may only hope in the.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 184 They graunt him to take it with him.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 138 The Gods graunt them true. View more context for this quotation
1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) I. i. viii. 35/2 Our Lord Richard the King..hath granted..That all the Kidels that are in the Thames be taken away.
1827 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) IV. 384 God grant that I may find you well enough..for a morning walk.
e. In past participle as a polite rejoinder to an apology.
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1902 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. (1904) 238 ‘Granted—granted as soon as asked,’ he said, unbending. ‘I did think it a shade odd at the time.’
1924 R. Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 311 ‘..I beg your pardon...’ ‘Granted.’
1926 R. Macaulay Crewe Train ii. v. 103 When others craved their pardon for stepping on their toes, their reply was, ‘Granted.’
1951 E. Coxhead One Green Bottle v. 115 ‘Pardon?’ said Cathy, momentarily bewildered; whereat Mr. Derwent..replied: ‘Oh-er, granted.’
1967 ‘H. Calvin’ Nice Friendly Town vi. 87 She yawned a great yawn and said, ‘Sorry.’ ‘Granted,’ I said.
5.
a. To bestow or confer (a possession, right, etc.) by a formal act. Said of a sovereign or supreme authority, a court of justice, a representative assembly, etc. Also, in Law, to transfer (property) from oneself to another person, especially by deed.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > confer > by a formal act
grantc1305
dote1560
society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [verb (transitive)] > grant by charter or deed
bookOE
convey1495
assure1572
reassure1592
granta1599
grant1766
deed1816
c1305 Pilate 82 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 113 Þemperour..grantede pilatus al þat lond to holde bi maistrie.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 227 Whanne þe legacye of þe cros was commytted to hym he took no procuracies þat hym were y-graunted.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 103 Asia..Was graunted by commune assent To Sem.
1456 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 292 Had and ygrawnt by the fellyst of the sayd comynes.
1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 17 I graunte hem fulle pover.
c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 1 A great taske and disme grawnted to the Kinge.
1603 in W. Selwyn Abridgm. Law Nisi Prius (1808) II. xix. 676 (modernized text) Granting letters of administration, belongs to the prerogative court of the archbishop of that province.
1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 138 Graunted by Patents.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 162 Where Friendship is, all Offices of Life, are as it were granted to Him, and his Deputy.
1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 436 God the Father hath graunted vs..a new Patent.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 302 The Power here granted belongs to all Supreme Pastors.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. §2 They the said Abraham Barker and Cecilia his Wife..do, and each of them doth, grant, bargain, sell, release, and confirm unto the said [D. E. and F. G.;], their heirs and assigns, All that the capital messuage called Dale Hall.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 193 The Commons alone could legally grant him money.
1858 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1873) II. viii. 575 They granted charters to the towns and privileges to the inhabitants.
1883 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 11 545 (note) An attachment granted to enforce compliance with the order of court.
b. with adverbs, in technical phrases: to grant (land, a title) away, to grant out. †to grant forth (a warrant): to issue.
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1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. C7v The other officers who grant foorth the warrants, the Subpœnas.
1661 A. Brome Songs & Other Poems sig. F7 All titles of honours..being granted away With the grantees stay.
1845 J. Williams Princ. Law Real Prop. Introd. 2 The lands thus confiscated were granted out by the conqueror to his followers.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. x. 657 The estates of accused persons had been granted away before conviction.
1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. i. 6 The grantee of the land is to be entitled to grant the land away to whomsoever he pleases in his lifetime.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)]
forsakec893
forlet971
to reach upOE
agiveOE
yield?c1225
uptake1297
up-yield1297
yield1297
deliverc1300
to-yielda1375
overgivec1384
grant1390
forbeara1400
livera1400
forgoc1400
upgive1415
permit1429
quit1429
renderc1436
relinquish1479
abandonc1485
to hold up?1499
enlibertyc1500
surrender1509
cess1523
relent1528
to cast up?1529
resignate1531
uprender1551
demit1563
disclaim1567
to fling up1587
to give up1589
quittance1592
vail1593
enfeoff1598
revoke1599
to give off1613
disownc1620
succumb1632
abdicate1633
delinquish1645
discount1648
to pass away1650
to turn off1667
choke1747
to jack up1870
chuck up (the sponge)1878
chuckc1879
unget1893
sling1902
to jack in1948
punt1966
to-leave-
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 122 For Libra graunteth him [i.e. Scorpion] his ende Of eighte sterres.
a1400–50 Alexander 3103 Þi meche we beseke..to grant vs oure modire..out of bande.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. x. sig. G2v Palladius not accustomed to grant ouer the possession of him self vpon so vniust titles, with sword drawne gaue them so rude an answer, that [etc.].
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 331 Certain Thracian women.. granted their haire to this purpose.
7. To admit, confess, acknowledge. Now only in a more restricted use: To concede to an actual or hypothetical opponent (a proposition) to be used as a basis of argument.
a. with object either accusative with infinitive or a clause introduced by that (often suppressed), rarely how. In this sense the imperative mood, the present participle (used absol.) and the past participle often introduce an adverb (concessive) clause.
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the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > acknowledge, avow, or confess [verb (transitive)]
kenc975
kithec1000
acknowOE
anyetec1175
knowledgec1225
beknowc1325
avow1330
granta1400
acknowledge1481
recognize1509
confess1526
profess1526
testify1526
reacknowledge1550
avouch1606
to take with ——a1653
upgivea1776
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 27428 A man..grauntis [Vesp. yetes]..þat he is falling in misliking.
1411 Rolls of Parl. III. 650/1 The sayd Robert wold nouht graunte that he had submytted hym in that mater.
a1450 Le Morte Arth. 1652 There he grauntyd a monge hem alle..How in an appelle he dede the galle.
c1480 (a1400) St. Lawrence 366 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 412 Þat ypolyt..before al had granttyt þare, þat he had bene a cristine mane.
1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes xxi. f. cxxxix A synner maye graunt and confesse, that he hathe not considered thys great kyndenes of God.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xli. 239 But graunting thinges there to be well done already.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies i. v. 16 They graunt there is a Heaven on this other part of the world.
1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 73 Grant they never used drinking and bezling before they came to Sea..they will soon finde out the art.
1660 S. Pepys Diary 11 Jan. (1970) I. 15 I went to see Mrs. Jem, who was in bed and now granted to have the small-pox.
1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 4 Granting there were antiently such names..it remaines doubtfull [etc.].
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 4. ⁋5 I grant her Dress is very becoming, but [etc.].
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 156 Grant that such a man had, by his recent services, fairly earned his pardon. Yet [etc.].
1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. iv. 94 Only asserting that to be beautiful which I believe will be granted me to be so without dispute.
1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1876) 161 Granting that that downfall is to come, it is reasonable [etc.].
1863 T. Woolner My Beautiful Lady iii. 128 I grant a few, the greatest, live content.
1884 B. Bosanquet et al. tr. H. Lotze Metaphysic 101 Granted that two Beings, A and B, are so independent of each other..then [etc.].
b. with n. or pron. as object. Also absol.
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a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxi. 15 In dust of ded thou has me broght. This says he, noght grauntand it, for his body rot noght.
1428 Surtees Misc. (1888) 3 He gart yarof, als he graunted, ixxx peces & xij.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xix. 48 The lord sowlis has grantit thar The deid in-to plane parliament.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xxiii. 8 The phariseies graunt bothe.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 359 I grant ye vpon instinct. View more context for this quotation
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 1 This will easily be granted, by as many as know story.
1612 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 312 Patrick Gordoune..being accusit for trubling of this burght..in drawing of ane sword, and persewing thairwith Gilbert Leslie..graunted the drawing of his sword to the said Gilbert, and persewing him thairwith.
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. Ep. Ded. sig. A5v Like the first Principles of Mathematical Science, they are..granted by all.
1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §15. 8 Tho' we should grant the real Existence of those Optic Angles.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 107 This granted, we shall take something more.
1848 J. Keble Serm. Pref. 41 If thus much be granted,..how is not our principle conceded?
1879 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 167 We settle first the measure of man's need Before we grant capacity to fill.
c. with object and complement: To admit or concede (a person or thing) to be so and so. rare.
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the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement or recognition > acknowledge or recognize [verb (transitive)]
yknowOE
knowc1175
yatec1175
knowledgec1225
vow1338
granta1387
kenc1400
admit1415
reknowledgec1450
acknowledge?1526
agnize1535
recognize1537
recognoscea1550
justify1600
granta1620
to take with ——a1653
recognizance1657
agnite1694
recognizate1799
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 367 Vienna was þo i~graunted the place of corsynge.
a1400–50 Alexander 3125 And if [he] grant him noȝt de-grayd.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 100 Mad let vs graunt him then. View more context for this quotation
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 139 [I] haue not tryed it; yet I grant it probable.
1730 J. Swift Traulus I 7 Grant him but a Drone at best.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 62 I grant him brave, But wild.
d. To admit the existence of. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement or recognition > acknowledge or recognize [verb (transitive)]
yknowOE
knowc1175
yatec1175
knowledgec1225
vow1338
granta1387
kenc1400
admit1415
reknowledgec1450
acknowledge?1526
agnize1535
recognize1537
recognoscea1550
justify1600
granta1620
to take with ——a1653
recognizance1657
agnite1694
recognizate1799
a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. vi. §3. 46 For, of necessitie hee granteth him [God], though of impotencie hee blaspheme him.
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