grantn.¹

Brit.

/ɡrɑːnt/,

/ɡrant/, U.S.

/ɡrænt/

Forms: see the verb.

Etymology: < grant v.

The action of granting; the thing granted.

†1.

a. Consent, permission.

ΘΚΠ

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. Iv^v The noble Prince gaue graunt to my request.

1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. i. sig. A3^v Could I auoyde to giue a seeming graunt Vnto fruition of Antonios loue?

1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age i. sig. B2^v 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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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).

ΘΚΠ

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.

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.

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.

ΘΚΠ

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 M^r Brunker may have deceiv'd you in his assurances concerning y^e Grant of y^e 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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

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.

ΚΠ

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

Brit.

/ɡrɑːnt/,

/ɡrant/, U.S.

/ɡrænt/

Etymology: ? variant grand n. 7.

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.

Brit.

/ɡrɑːnt/,

/ɡrant/, U.S.

/ɡrænt/

Forms: Past tense and past participle granted. Forms: Middle English granti, Middle English–1600s graunt(e, Middle English grant(t)e, granty, Middle English–1500s grawnt(e, (Middle English grawunt, grownte), Middle English– grant. Also past tense Middle English gra(u)nt; past participle Middle English–1500s gra(u)nt.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman graunter, granter, Old French graanter, greanter, altered form of craanter, creanter < popular Latin type *crēdentāre, < crēdent-em present participle of crēdĕre to entrust, believe.

†1. intransitive. To agree, consent; to assent to the request of (a person: const. dative); to agree or consent to or to do (rarely at do) something. Obsolete.

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.

2. transitive. To agree to, promise, undertake.

†a. Const. dative of person, and accusative of thing. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΚΠ

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.).

ΘΚΠ

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.

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?

†b. With a thing as subject or as indirect object: To allow to have. Obsolete.

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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.

†c. To sanction, permit (an action). Obsolete.

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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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

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.

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.

ΚΠ

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. C7^v 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.

†6. To yield, give up. Also with over. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

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. G2^v 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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΚΠ

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, ix^xx 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.

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. A5^v 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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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单词	grant
释义	grantn.¹ Brit. /ɡrɑːnt/, /ɡrant/, U.S. /ɡrænt/ Forms: see the verb. Etymology: < grant v. The action of granting; the thing granted. †1. a. Consent, permission. ΘΚΠ 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. Iv^v The noble Prince gaue graunt to my request. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. i. sig. A3^v Could I auoyde to giue a seeming graunt Vnto fruition of Antonios loue? 1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age i. sig. B2^v 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 M^r Brunker may have deceiv'd you in his assurances concerning y^e Grant of y^e 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). grantn.² Brit. /ɡrɑːnt/, /ɡrant/, U.S. /ɡrænt/ Etymology: ? variant grand n. 7. U.S. Categories » ‘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.). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). grantv. Brit. /ɡrɑːnt/, /ɡrant/, U.S. /ɡrænt/ Forms: Past tense and past participle granted. Forms: Middle English granti, Middle English–1600s graunt(e, Middle English grant(t)e, granty, Middle English–1500s grawnt(e, (Middle English grawunt, grownte), Middle English– grant. Also past tense Middle English gra(u)nt; past participle Middle English–1500s gra(u)nt. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman graunter, granter, Old French graanter, greanter, altered form of craanter, creanter < popular Latin type crēdentāre, < crēdent-em* present participle of crēdĕre to entrust, believe. †1. intransitive. To agree, consent; to assent to the request of (a person: const. dative); to agree or consent to or to do (rarely at do) something. Obsolete. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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.). ΘΚΠ 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. 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? †b. With a thing as subject or as indirect object: To allow to have. Obsolete. ΚΠ 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. †c. To sanction, permit (an action). Obsolete. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. C7^v 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. †6. To yield, give up. Also with over. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ 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. G2^v 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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, ix^xx 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. A5^v 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹?c1225n.²1889v.a1250
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