单词 | lettage |
释义 | † lettagen. Obsolete. The action or process of leasing something to a person. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > [noun] hiringc1400 letting1425 lettage1530 fee-farming1549 renting1552 location1581 loan1601 rental1800 let1839 letment- 1530 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 249 Too melche nete to be leten by ye churchwardens for the tyme beyng, and halfe part of the mony comyng yeerly of the letage of the sayd nete to go to [etc.]. 1591 C. Gibbon Work Worth Reading 35 Our Lawes against Vsurie..restraine the vnreasonable loane for lettage, yet they admit some competent allowaunce for lending. 1595 M. Mosse Arraignm. Usurie ii. 36 They doe let their money, or put it forth to lettage or loane. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1530 |
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