单词 | arrearage |
释义 | arrearagen.ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [adverb] > in arrears in arrearagesa1325 behindc1375 in rerage (also in rerages)a1400 behindhand1530 in arrears1620 in arrear1621 back1875 a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) vii. 40 Ben in arerages of hoere acountes. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xii. 297 So deepe in arerages. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. lxi. [lxiv.] 205 [He was] in his det in a grete some of money, longe renne in arrerages. 1605 London Prodigall i. ii. 230 The rogue puts me in 'rearages for orient pearl. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 614 Play most unfaithfull parts..and thus run into arrearedges. b. The state or condition of being behind, or in arrear, with a payment due; indebtedness, debt. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > state of being in arrears arrearage1330 rerage?1529 1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 319 Now salle I wite þe taile, & put þe in þe Arerage. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 5913 Many in arrirage mon falle, And til perpetuele prison gang. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 604 Ther koude no man brynge hym in arrerage [v.r. a-rerage]. 1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxiii. f. 47v Yf any were founde in arrerage, he shulde..pay..foure tymes as moch as the arrerage amounted to. 1608 S. Hieron 2nd Pt. Def. Ministers Reasons 238 For his daily borrowing of him, is likely to run into that arrerage that he will not easely gett out of his debt. 1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes xvi, in Wks. I. 773 Th'art in arrerage growne Some hundred quarrells. 2. gen. Backwardness, state of being in arrear. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > state of advancement towards completion > lack of arrearage1576 backwardness1585 behindhanda1586 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 265 Charging him with great arrearage of account. 1841 F. A. Kemble Rec. Later Life II. 159 When such an arrearage took place, the fittest thing to do was to answer first those received first. 1883 A. S. Hardy But yet Woman 103 Practitioners who make up their arrearage in science by..wide experience. 3. a. concrete. That which is in arrear; an amount overdue, an outstanding or unpaid sum or balance. ΚΠ a1480 Will of Agnes Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 49 xx li., which I will be gathered of the arrerage of my lyvelode. 1483 Cath. Angl. An Arrerage [v.r. Arreage], erreragia. a1500 Reg. Civ. Ebor. 366 a The arrerage of the said fee ferme. 1617 F. Bacon in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 23 To continewe the payment of the anuetye..and allso to pay the arrerage thereof. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xxi. 18 Demanding payment of arrearage due. 1870 Daily News 21 Sept. The employers had no funds..and a large arrearage of wages accumulated. b. Something still in reserve. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > that which is stored or a store > kept in reserve arrearage1594 reserve1646 nest-egg1837 balance (in hand)1876 backlog1883 reservoir1941 1594 M. Drayton Ideas Mirrour sig. Cv Th'arerage of my ioyes, directs me to my losse. 1854 T. De Quincey Let. Oct. in ‘H. A. Page’ T. De Quincey: Life & Writings (1877) II. xviii. 84 Which..leaves even to the thief a conscious arrearage of nobility and possible redemption. 4. plural. Items overdue, outstanding amounts, arrears; esp. moneys overdue; debts; = arrear n. 7. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > [noun] > leaving undone > that which is not done arrearagesc1315 arrear1658 undone1872 society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > arrears arrearagesc1315 reragea1325 rest1447 remain1501 decay1546 by-run1573 remainder1597 arrears1648 bygonesa1676 arrearance1731 c1315 Shoreham 96 Nere the milse and merci of God self..That wolle the arerages forȝeve. 1453 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 191 All þarrages..to me dewe at my dethe. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. ciiij v First the arreagis of the last acompter. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iv. 13 Hee'le grant the Tribute: send th'Arrerages . View more context for this quotation 1651 I. Walton Life of Wotton in H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) sig. ev Such Arrearages as shall appear due unto me. 1691 Blount's Νομο-λεξικον (ed. 2) Arrearages, the Remain of an Accompt, or a Sum of Money remaining in the Hands of an Accomptant. It is sometimes used more generally for any Money unpaid at a due Time. 1714 in Narragansett Hist. Reg. (1885) Apr. 277 The committee chosen by the town to gather the arrearages of my sallary. 1781 Baltimore Town Rec. 42 All arrearages for Rent from the Butchers must be paid to the Clerk. 1817 in H. B. Fearon Sketches of Amer. (1818) 231 When subscribers wish to discontinue, all arrearages must first be paid. 1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie v. 127 So I left him, without calling in the paymaster to settle my arrearages. 1850 W. Irving Chron. Conq. Granada 24 A formal demand for the payment of arrearages. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1315 |
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