单词 | muniment |
释义 | munimentn. 1. Chiefly Law. A document, such as a title deed, charter, etc., preserved as evidence of rights or privileges; an archival document. Usually in plural.Formerly sometimes confused with monument n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal document > types of legal or official document > [noun] > preserved as evidence of a fact evidence1385 muniment1425 1425 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 136 (MED) Þe dedes, euidens, & munimentes towching alle þe landes, tenementes, and rentys. 1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 126/1 All the Minimentz that longen to..the seid Toun..be put into the seid Coffre. 1485 Rolls of Parl. VI. 295/2 All Evidences, Deeds and Minements, concerning the said Mannors. 1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 35 §2 All the evydences chartrez and munymentes concernyng the premysses. 1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 21 I haue seen of it the muniment Vnder seale wryten. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum at Rolles Where minumentes or recordes be kepte. 1594 W. West Symbolæogr.: 2nd Pt. ii. Chancerie §105 The said deedes, evidences, escriptes, writings, and myniments. 1620 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 287 The ancient recordes and mynamentes, not onely of the towne, but also of other societies in other remote places of the kingdome. 1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 32/2 Among the other records and muniments. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. ii. 40 To put our ancient chronicles, our noble histories, our learned commentaries, and natural muniments, to such offices of contempt and subjection, has greatly degraded our nation. 1856 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors (ed. 2) I. xiii. 194 The roll of his domestic expenses, preserved among the muniments of the bishopric. 1893 T. Fowler Hist. Corpus Christi Coll. 198 The various muniments, i.e. title-deeds or evidences relating to the College property. 1915 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 23 541 The common law came to be revered as a muniment of personal liberties. 1963 Renaissance News 16 318 Another newly unearthed muniment of importance is one proving that John Cabot was working at Valencia as a harbor engineer in 1493. 1994 Speculum 69 441 The work is inevitably painstaking, deeply grounded in the minutiae of estate muniments and property disputes. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > that which is supplied > that with which anything is equipped > equipment or accoutrements ornament?c1225 i-wendea1250 atil1297 tacklea1325 apparel1330 conreyc1330 farec1330 tirec1330 apparementc1340 apparelmentc1374 graithc1375 appurtenancec1386 geara1400 warnementa1400 stuff1406 parelling?a1440 farrements1440 stuffurec1440 skippeson1444 harnessa1450 parela1450 implements1454 reparel1466 ordinance1475 habiliments1483 ornation1483 muniments1485 mountures1489 outred1489 accomplement?c1525 trinketc1525 garnishing1530 garniture1532 accoutrementsc1550 furniments1553 tackling1558 instrument1563 ordinara1578 appointment?1578 outreiking1584 appoint1592 dighting1598 outreik1598 apparate?c1600 accomplishment1605 attirail1611 coutrement1621 apparatusa1628 equipage1648 thing1662 equipment1717 paraphernalia1736 tack1777 outfit1787 fittinga1817 fixing1820 set-out1831 rigging1837 fixture1854 parapherna1876 clobber1890 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > equipment for any action or undertaking ornament?c1225 i-wendea1250 atil1297 tacklea1325 apparel1330 conreyc1330 farec1330 tirec1330 apparementc1340 apparelmentc1374 graithc1375 appurtenancec1386 geara1400 warnementa1400 stuff1406 parelling?a1440 farrements1440 stuffurec1440 skippeson1444 harnessa1450 parela1450 implements1454 reparel1466 ordinance1475 habiliments1483 ornation1483 muniments1485 outred1489 trinketc1525 garnishing1530 garniture1532 accoutrementsc1550 furniments1553 tackling1558 instrument1563 ordinara1578 appointment?1578 outreiking1584 supellectile1584 appoint1592 dighting1598 outreik1598 materialsa1600 apparate?c1600 attirail1611 coutrement1621 apparatusa1628 outrig1639 equipage1648 thing1662 equipment1717 paraphernalia1736 fixture1767 tack1777 outfit1787 fittinga1817 fixing1820 matériel1821 set-out1831 rigging1837 parapherna1876 clobber1890 1485 W. Caxton tr. Lyf St. Wenefryde 24 The couent that were gone oute cladde them with precious ornamentes of the chirche..and dredde not a lytell that the ornamentes and munymentis shold be sore hurte by the fallyng of the rayne. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. viii. sig. G7 By chance he certaine miniments forth drew, Which yet with him as relickes did abide. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. i. 116 Our Steed the Legge, the Tongue our Trumpeter, With other Muniments and petty helpes In this our Fabricke. View more context for this quotation 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. ii. 42 Where the receiving-rooms and bed-rooms contain little beyond the muniments necessary for sitting and lying. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > [noun] > means of defence hornc825 defencec1350 garnisonc1386 wall1412 fencec1440 defensoryc1475 fencing1489 muniment1546 frontier1589 bar1603 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [noun] > means of protection or defence hornc825 shieldc1200 warranta1272 bergha1325 armour1340 hedge1340 defencec1350 bucklerc1380 protectiona1382 safety1399 targea1400 suretyc1405 wall1412 pavise?a1439 fencec1440 safeguard?c1500 pale?a1525 waretack1542 muniment1546 shrouda1561 bulwark1577 countermure1581 ward1582 prevention1584 armourya1586 fortificationa1586 securitya1586 penthouse1589 palladium1600 guard1609 subtectacle1609 tutament1609 umbrella1609 bastion1615 screena1616 amulet1621 alexikakon1635 breastwork1643 security1643 protectionary1653 sepiment1660 back1680 shadower1691 aegis1760 inoculation1761 buoya1770 propugnaculum1773 panoply1789 armament1793 fascine1793 protective1827 beaver1838 face shield1842 vaccine1861 zariba1885 wolf-platform1906 firebreak1959 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke Pref. 2 For both Beastes and Birdes have..weapons as Hornes tuskes and other like munimentes to resist their foes. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 6 The Bones..which to the brayne, in their construction, are so safe a muniment. 1629 B. Jonson in J. Beaumont Bosworth-field sig. a1v Though I confesse a Beaumonts Booke to bee The Bound, and Frontire of our Poëtrie; And doth deserue all muniments of praise, That Art, or Ingine, on the strength can raise. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 130 Others conceive one use of the Beard was for a munument. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 339 These Fora, or places of Judicature (by the Danes called Tings), seem always to have had their muniments of stone. 1758 J. Macpherson Highlander v. 60 On ev'ry side my quick array I form, Prepar'd at once the muniment to storm. 1830 Examiner 163/2 Truth is the simple muniment with which every power used for evil may be met. 1860 R. W. Emerson Worship in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 195 We cannot spare the coarsest muniment of virtue. Compounds C1. General attributive, designating any of various repositories for the storage of muniments (sense 1). muniment chest n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal document > types of legal or official document > [noun] > preserved as evidence of a fact > place for keeping muniment house1656 muniment room1661 muniment chest1870 1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 114 In this chamber is a large carved muniment chest. 1928 Biometrika 20B 35 The state records, royal archives, the Vatican files, or what is still more probable the muniment chest of some Scottish family may revolutionise our views. muniment house n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal document > types of legal or official document > [noun] > preserved as evidence of a fact > place for keeping muniment house1656 muniment room1661 muniment chest1870 1656 T. Blount Glossographia A Muniment house (in Cathedral, or Collegiate Churches, Castles, Colledges or such like) is a house or little room of strength, purposely made for keeping the Seal, Plate, Evidences, Charters, &c. of such Church, Colledge, &c., such Evidences being called in Law Muniments. 1778 T. Warton Let. 22 Sept. in Poet. Wks. (1802) I. Introd. p. lxxvi I have borrowed from the muniment house of this college a most curious roll of W. Wykeham's house-keeping expences for the year 1394. 1884 Atlantic Monthly July 43/1 It is a huge muniment house for the secret history of Spain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. muniment room n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal document > types of legal or official document > [noun] > preserved as evidence of a fact > place for keeping muniment house1656 muniment room1661 muniment chest1870 1661 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 384 Dr. Wallis sent for A. W. to com to him, then in the muniment-room in the School Tower. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. ii. iv. 111 A turreted tower, the small square window of which..illumined the muniment room of the House of Carabas. 1921 A. Huxley Crome Yellow xiii. 120 Our muniment room is particularly rich in ancient records. 1981 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 596 A place may be used as a repository for archives without being used as a place of business, e.g. a muniment room. C2. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] > proof of > document title?a1400 right1478 title deed1710 muniment deeda1864 a1864 N. Hawthorne Septimius Felton (1872) 217 Have you..no muniment deed? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1425 |
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