单词 | mainprize |
释义 | mainprizen. Law. Now historical. 1. a. The action of procuring the release of a prisoner on someone's undertaking to stand surety (‘mainpernor’) for his or her appearance in court at a specified time. Chiefly in phrases to let (also receive) to (also in) mainprize, to deliver upon (also by) mainprize, to nim under mainprize. without bail or mainprize: with no permission to obtain release by finding sureties. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > bailing or bail > [noun] > procuring release on bail mainprizea1325 mainprizing1440 manucaption1588 fidejussion1657 c1290 Britton (1865) I. i. xviii. §1. 67 Les aloygneours soint mis par meynprise jekes en heyre des Justices.] a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xxxviii. 100 Þat te amendes ben anon riȝt iiuged to þe plaintif, ant te siwte imad biþoute ani delay, ant te tressepassurs idon to gode mainprise. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xx. 17 Nede anon riȝte nymeth hym vnder meynpryse. c1410 (c1350) Gamelyn (Harl. 7334) 744 (MED) I bidde him to maympris, þat þou graunt him me Til þe nexte sittyng of delyueraunce. 1414 Rolls of Parl. IV. 57/2 I was resseyved to meynpryse. 1423 Rolls of Parl. IV. 258/2 Put any such persone to baill or mainpris. 1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 126/2 Arrested, or let to maynprise or bayll. a1450 (?c1350) Pride of Life l. 379 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 101 Þer [sc. in hell] ne fallit no [MS ne] maynpris, Ne supersidias. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xviv There shall be no Bayle nor treatynge of maynpryse. 1554 Act 1 & 2 Philip & Mary c. 13 §1 The same Justices to be presente together at the tyme of the said Bailement or Mayneprise. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Irelande ii. 62/1 in Chron. I Hee afterwarde deliuered him vpon mainprise of these sureties whose names ensue. ?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 105 They should..bee committed to the Gaole without bayle or Mainprise, for the space of three monethes. 1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 202 Though the Earle of Desmond were left [sic] to Mainprize, vpon condition, hee should appeare before the King by a certain day. a1625 H. Finch Law (1636) 446 At writ of mainprise to set at liberty one baileable finding baile. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iv. 163 That they..be..put in Prison, without being delivered in Bail, or otherwise, except by good and sufficient mainprise, to be taken before the Chancellour of England. 1744 Act 17 Geo. II c. 40 §10 There to remain without Bail or Mainprize, until Payment be made. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 128 The writ of mainprize..is a writ directed to the sheriff..commanding him to take sureties for the prisoner's appearance, usually called mainpernors, and to set him at large. a1845 R. H. Barham House-warming!! in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 289 Taken to jail..without mainprize or bail. 1904 M. Bateson Borough Customs (Selden Soc.) I. 99 If distress be delivered by pledge or mainprise of any one, [etc.]. 1940 E. De Haas Antiquities of Bail 68 The writ which Chancery issued in such cases is called the writ de manucaptione, of mainprise. 1968 R. B. Pugh Imprisonment in Medieval Eng. 204 It was fortunate for the suspect that the practice of bail and mainprise was so widespread. ΚΠ c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 4181 Of deth stood vnder arreste With-oute meinpris..as of lyf. 1631 P. Heylyn Hist. St. George 42 Without hope of Bayle, or any mercie of mainprise; he must be in Hell. 1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica xxii. 290 No baile or mainprize from this common prison of all mankinde, the grave. 1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. ii. iv. 17 Come on; I'l send thee presently to Erebus without either Bail or Main-prize. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 13 Had she [sc. the ship] given way never so little, we must have sunk without Bail or Mainprize. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > bailing or bail > [noun] > one who gives bail or surety mainpernora1325 mainprizec1390 mainprizer1440 manucaptor1523 fidejussor1539 bail1594 adpromissor1675 manuprisor1695 bailsman1862 c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. iv. 75 And he amendes make, let Meynprise [v.rr. maynprise, meinpris, maynpres] him haue. c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 35 And ȝif [printed zif] they come not to that court, be the meynprise amercyed. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 5 He therefore..Resolv'd to leave the Squire for Bail And Mainprize for him, to the Gaol. 1847 H. Taylor Eve of Conquest in Wks. (1864) III. 211 He greatly grudged This mainprize of my loyalty to let loose. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal obligation > bond or recognizance > requiring or giving legal security > [noun] > being legal surety for another mainprize1447 1447–8 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 297 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 No citsayn or freman shal receve none estraungers in pledge or maynprice for ony bargaine. c1503 tr. Charter of London in R. Arnold Chron. f. viij/1 That..an english marchaunt bee not amytted in to the fraunches of ye cite of any crafte but be mempris of vi good men & sufficyent of the crafte. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mainprizev. Law. Now historical. 1. transitive. To procure or grant the release of (a prisoner) by mainprize. Often figurative. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > bailing or bail > bail or admit to bail [verb (transitive)] mainprize?a1400 to let to bail1454 to let to borgh1482 bail1548 replevish1554–5 replevy1554 repleve1592 replevin1659 manucapt1898 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 138 Bot if he to þer baylifes mak his sikernesse Þat þei will hym maynpis. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. iv. 179 Mede shal nouȝte meynprise ȝow, bi þe Marie of heuene. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xxi. l. 189 God haþ..graunted to al mankynde, Mercy, my suster, and me to maynprise hem alle. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 320 Maynprysyd, or menprisyd [a1500 King's Cambr. maynsprisid; ?a1475 Winch.:Way Maymprysyd, or memprisyd], manucaptus. ?a1534 H. Medwall Nature ii. sig. hiiiiv God..Dyd vs..wyth hys own blode maynpryce And vs redemed fro paynes endles. ?1592 J. Manwood Brefe Coll. Lawes Forest 167 There is a great diuersitie betweene Bayle and Mainprise: for he that is maynprised is alwaies saide to be at large.., after that he is let to maynprise, vntil the daie of his appearance. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis 857/1 To mainprize, Vadimonio obstringere. 1865 S. T. Dobell Life & Lett. (1878) II. vi. iii. 272 Not Moses only or Elias, But Heaven mainprized, and every standing saint Astonied into marble. 1895 F. Pollock & F. W. Maitland Hist. Eng. Law II. ii. ix. 582 If a man was arrested he was usually replevied (replegiatus) or mainprised (manucaptus), that is to say, he was set free so soon as some sureties (plegii) undertook (manuceperunt)..his appearance in court. 1904 M. Bateson Borough Customs (Selden Soc.) I. 99 If distress be delivered by pledge or mainprise of any one, if he who is..mainprised does not come to justify himself..let his..mainpernours be distrained to produce him. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] forhowc900 overhowOE withhuheOE forhecchec1230 scorna1275 despise1297 spise13.. to set at a pease, at a pie's heel, at a pin's fee1303 to hold, have scorn at, ofc1320 to think scorn ofc1320 to set short by1377 to tell short of1377 to set naught or nought (nothing, not anything) by1390 spitea1400 contemnc1425 nought1440 overlooka1450 mainprizec1450 lightly1451 vilipendc1470 indeign1483 misprize1483 dain?1518 to look down on (also upon)1539 floccipend1548 contempta1555 to take scorn ata1566 embase1577 sdeign1590 disesteem1594 vilify1599 to set lightly, coldly1604 disrepute1611 to hold cheapa1616 avile1616 floccify1623 meprize1633 to think (also believe, etc.) meanly of1642 publican1648 naucify1653 disesteem1659 invalue1673 to set light, at light1718 sneeze1806 sniff1837 derry1896 to hold no brief for1918 c1450 Contin. Lydgate's Secrees (Sloane 2464) 2219 He is so trewe, no good man may hym mempryse. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > bailing or bail > [noun] > procuring release on bail mainprizea1325 mainprizing1440 manucaption1588 fidejussion1657 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 320 Maynprisynge [?a1475 Winch. Mayn prysyng], manucap[t]io. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1325v.?a1400 |
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