pleadingn.

Brit.

/ˈpliːdɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈplidɪŋ/

Forms: see plead v. and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: plead v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < plead v. + -ing suffix¹.

†1. Litigation, disputation; an instance of this, esp. a lawsuit, an action. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > litigation or going to law

pleadingc1275

suita1325

suing1440

persecution1466

processing1478

lawingc1485

prosecution1590

litigation1661

soliciting1709

impleading1878

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > a lawsuit

speechc897

mootc1225

pleadingc1275

pleac1300

actiona1325

quarrela1325

suit1348

pursuit1380

sokena1387

process1395

plead1455

pleament1480

suit in law1530

ployc1600

suit in equity1604

suit in chancery1621

lawsuit1624

instance1654

legal action1656

lis1932

c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 12 (MED) Hure & hure of oþere songe, Hi holde plaiding suþe stronge.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 9662 Ȝuf a man of holichirche halt eni lay fe..he ssal..In playdinge & in asise be.

a1400 in K. W. Engeroff Untersuchung ‘Usages of Winchester’ (1914) 82 (MED) Þe ordre of pledynge þat me pledeth in þe Cytee of Wynchestre so ys by swych a vys þat euerych man..þat is empleted may habbe þre resonable somounces.

?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iii. pr. iii. 73 Whennes comen elles thise foreyne compleyntes or quereles of pledynges [L. forenses querimoniae]?

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 431 b/1 Doubtyng that the stryf accions and pletynges of the poure shold come onely to the presence and knowlege of hys counceyllours.

1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. K8 That they be iuges, parties, and aduocates of one selfe pletinge.

2. Law. The advocating of a cause in a court of law; the art or practice of composing pleadings (see sense 4); the body of rules and regulations relating to this art.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > [noun]

pleadinga1325

pleadera1500

pleadery1600

case-putting1645

a1325 Lent (Corpus Cambr.) 68 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 131 (MED) A balled reson makeþ [he] þanne & plaidinge þerto And resons haþ þerto inowe.

c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 166 Ther ne shal no pledynge [c1405 Hengwrt pletynge; v.r. pleynyng] auaile ne no sleighte; we shullen yeue rekenynge of euerich ydel word.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. iii. 294 Shal no seriaunt for here seruyse were a silke howue Ne no pelure in his cloke for pledyng [c1400 C text v.r. pletyng] atte barre.

1522 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte 315 In pletynge of theyr case At the Commune Place.

c1550 (?a1475) Lament. Sinner in Anglia (1911) 34 296 (MED) Ther shall noo lordes ffor you praye, noo justice, nor noo man off lawe..your pleting [v.r. pletyne] ys nott worthe a hawe.

1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. 76 For the more ful & forcible destruction of delayes & ambushes in pleading.

a1637 B. Jonson Timber 426 in Wks. (1640) III There is a difference betweene Mooting, and Pleading, betweene Fencing, and Fighting.

1672 G. Mackenzie Pleadings Pref. sig. A3^v Pointed and short pleading, wherein the Speaker singles out a point, and presses it.

1723 J. Henley in J. Henley et al. tr. Pliny the Younger Epist. & Panegyrick I. iii. v. 114 He was employ'd in Pleading for a good Space of Time, and dy'd in his Fifty Sixth Year.

1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 34 The terms, or times for pleading and ending of causes in the Civil Courts.

1824 H. J. Stephen Treat. Princ. Pleading 270 Where in respect of several subjects or several defendants, a severance has thus taken place in the pleading, this may..lead to a corresponding severance in the whole subsequent series.

1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. ix. 255 The proceedings included a series of assertions and reassertions of right by the parties, and this formal dialogue was the parent of the Art of Pleading.

1959 Dict. National Biogr. 1941–50 at Clyde, James Avon His interventions made for a high standard of pleading, and he had a stimulating influence on all who appeared before him.

1983 European Intellectual Prop. Rev. Jan. 8/2 Already at least one objection of inutility has succeeded, but another one failed for incorrect pleading.

3. gen. Intercession, advocacy; supplication, earnest entreaty; an instance of this. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > earnest request or entreaty > pleading or urging (a cause, etc.)

soliciting1429

pleadingc1450

intercession?a1513

c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 97 ‘What’, quod þe synner, ‘..Canst þou neuere of þi pletinge blynne?’

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQQvii^v Makyng (as saynt Poule saith) interpellacion & pletyng for vs, before y^e father of heuen.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. i. 191 I will be deafe to pleading and excuses, Nor teares nor prayers shall purchase for abuses.

1651 A. Weamys Contin. Sydney's Arcadia 94 Poor Pamela all this while seemed like one in a trance, not having power to contradict Musidorus in his pleadings, nor yet able to submit her yielding to them.

a1758 A. Ramsay Adieu for While ii Thou dost not obey The pleading of love.

1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. i. 20 The beauty..of Adeline, united with the pleadings of humanity in her favour.

1815 J. Cormack Abol. Fem. Infanticide Guzerat viii. 127 The avarice of the Jahrejahs, which was so powerful as to stop the ear against the most tender pleadings of nature.

a1849 E. A. Poe Spectacles in Wks. (1850) II. 338 Should I yield to your entreaties—and, I may add, to the pleadings of my own bosom—would I not be entitled to demand of you a very—a very little boon in return?

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §5. 511 ‘Comus’..rises into an almost impassioned pleading for the love of virtue.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 5/3 Millicent Brady has taken lessons for six years at her home in Brighton, and her father has at last been won over by pleadings for a winter of hard study with a more ‘classy’ teacher in St. Louis.

1947 T. Williams Streetcar Named Desire xi. 170 Sue turns her face to him and stares at him with desperate pleading.

1995 Echoes 30 Sept. 9/3 Orchestrated by keysman Clifton ‘Bigga’ Morrison peeking over a bank of electronic ivories,..the nine-piece outfit were supple yet solid, loose limbed and loping, the perfect foil for Gregory's plaintive pleadings and moanings.

4. Law. A formal written (formerly oral) statement in a civil action, prepared by each side and setting forth the cause of action or the defence. Now usually in plural: the formal statements on both sides, excluding (in strict use) the count or declaration.See also special pleading n.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > [noun] > (written) pleadings or statement of case

pleading1531

parola1625

case stated1649

information1681

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xiv. sig. Gviii^v The pleadynge vsed in courte and Chauncery called motes.

1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 30 §1 Replycacyons, reioynders, rebutters, ioynyng of issues, and other pleadynges.

a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 26 Pleadings must be certain, because the adverse party may know wherto to answer.

1658 P. Osborne Pract. Exchequer Court 160 In every long vacation all the bills..and other pleadings are to be taken from the common files.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xx. 293 Pleadings are the mutual altercations between the plaintiff and defendant; which at present are set down and delivered into the proper office in writing.

1825 Act 6 George IV c. 120 §10 The Record of the Pleadings as adjusted shall be authenticated by the Lord Ordinary by his Signature; and the Record so made up and authenticated shall be held as foreclosing the Parties from the Statement of any new Averments in point of Fact.

1883 H. H. S. Croft in T. Elyot Gouernour I. 152 (note) The pleadings down to the time of Edward III were vivâ voce, and those who pleaded orally would no doubt pursue the method first recommended by Quintilian in his Institutes, and afterwards adopted by later Rhetoricians.

1885 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 29 451 The Court is entitled to look at the pleadings in the Irish action.

1958 Southern Reporter (U.S.) 2nd Ser. 102 508/2 Such documentary evidence may be received in complementation of the pleadings to determine in limine whether plaintiff's cause of action is well founded.

1972 Times 9 Dec. 17/7 When the judge intimated that he thought some of the matters raised by Mr Maxwell were not relevant to the pleadings as they stood, Mr Maxwell sought to amend his claim by putting in new allegations.

1991 T. Zuber et al. Canad. Law (ed. 5) xv. 246 The statement of claim, the statement of defence, the crossclaim, the counterclaim, the third-party claim, and so on are collectively known as the pleadings.

Compounds

† pleading house n. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > place where court is held > [noun] > courthouse

doom-housec1000

speech-housec1050

tolsel1373

porcha1382

pleading house1440

courthouse1483

plead housec1485

pleading place1565

law-housea1610

county hall1670

judiciary1681

Palais de Justice1792

plea-house1818

doom-hall1870

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 405 Pletynge howse, or place, placitorium.

pleading place n.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > place where court is held > [noun] > courthouse

doom-housec1000

speech-housec1050

tolsel1373

porcha1382

pleading house1440

courthouse1483

plead housec1485

pleading place1565

law-housea1610

county hall1670

judiciary1681

Palais de Justice1792

plea-house1818

doom-hall1870

1565 W. Alley Πτωχομυσεῖον f. 18 Demosthenes commeth forth to the pleading place, hauing a great piece of wooll rounde about his necke.

1656 A. Cowley Isaiah XXXIV in Pindaric Odes v Then shall the Market and the Pleading-place Be Choakt with Brambles and oregrown with grass.

1709 T. Sprat Plague of Athens 19 Laws that like his in Blood are writ. The Benches and the pleading-place they leave.

a1967 V. Watkins Coll. Poems (1986) 207 God looked at Sodom In that pleading place, Sodom, Sodom, Sodom, Sodom. Down looked Abram, And he lost his case.

pleading point n.

ΚΠ

1847 J. Campbell Lives Lord Chancellors VII. ccxiii. 638 Although he had never meddled with special pleading while at the bar,—if a special pleading point arose on a writ of error while he was presiding on the woolsack.

1888 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 13 9 As a pleading point, this would have been good.

1999 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 20 Dec. 1 It really is a pleading point... Provided you don't challenge the fairness of the dismissal the actual act of termination and confine your claim to the terms of the contract.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

pleadingadj.

Brit.

/ˈpliːdɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈplidɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: plead v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < plead v. + -ing suffix².

That pleads; esp. entreating, beseeching, imploring.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > request > [adjective] > requesting or petitioning

askingOE

petitor1453

supplicatoryc1475

suppliant1550

entreating1566

placitatory1569

petitory1576

supplicant1577

suing1581

pleading1594

entreatful1596

conjuring1597

entreative1598

supplicative1601

petitionary1604

precatory1610

supplicating1612

petitioning1615

postulatorya1631

eucticala1638

obsecratory1645

placitory1651

imploring1655

precative1662

beseeching1704

obsecrationary1829

imploratory1832

suppliant-like1837

solicitive1865

solicitant1886

1594 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis (new ed.) sig. C^v Impatience chokes her pleading tongue.

1606 Returne from Pernassus iv. iii Wonder it is sweet friend thy pleading breath, So like the sweet blast of the southwest wind, Melts not those rockes of yee.

1688 A. Behn Lycidus 147 Not pleading tears, nor vows cou'd thee awake, Or warm the unform'd somthing—to desire.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. vi. 115 Whether those pleading Orators were Persons educated in the general Knowledge of Equity, or only in provincial, national, and other local Customs.

1779 S. T. Coleridge Poems 171 Oft I watch'd with angry gaze, Fearful saw his pleading look, Anxious heard his fervid phrase.

1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 46 What avail..the knit soul that pleading and pale Makes wan the quivering cheek?

1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xix. 185 He spoke with a pleading earnestness, taking Alan by the breast of the coat.

1901 ‘H. McHugh’ John Henry 93 I hate to have a girl plant her pleading peepers on me.

1968 A. K. Armah Beautyful Ones are not yet Born xiv. 204 The boatman's eyes were no longer the diffuse, vaguely pleading eyes of the hireling the man had seen the first time.

1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 28 June 52/1 Before he left for the US Gorbachev spoke in pleading tones to his countrymen of the need to continue to support perestroika.

Derivatives

ˈpleadingness n. pleading quality; plaintiveness.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > earnest request or entreaty > importunity or urgency

instancec1340

importunityc1425

instancy1515

importunateness?1526

importunacy1548

importancea1555

importancy1576

opportunitya1586

urgencec1592

urgency1611

clamorousnessa1617

pressingness1661

precariousness1666

supplicancy1728

beseechingness1863

imploringness1863

pleadingness1866

demandingness1930

1866 N. Bellairs Wayside Flowers iii. 27 Cry..of a little child... Its intense pleadingness haunted me.

1993 Hartford Courant (Connecticut) (Nexis) 11 Apr. g1 The librettist..worked the living-room full of potential donors with that mixture of bravado and pleadingness that all artists learn to adopt when speaking to the moneyed.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	pleading
释义	pleadingn. Brit. /ˈpliːdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈplidɪŋ/ Forms: see plead v. and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: plead v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < plead v. + -ing suffix¹. †1. Litigation, disputation; an instance of this, esp. a lawsuit, an action. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > litigation or going to law pleadingc1275 suita1325 suing1440 persecution1466 processing1478 lawingc1485 prosecution1590 litigation1661 soliciting1709 impleading1878 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > a lawsuit speechc897 mootc1225 pleadingc1275 pleac1300 actiona1325 quarrela1325 suit1348 pursuit1380 sokena1387 process1395 plead1455 pleament1480 suit in law1530 ployc1600 suit in equity1604 suit in chancery1621 lawsuit1624 instance1654 legal action1656 lis1932 c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 12 (MED) Hure & hure of oþere songe, Hi holde plaiding suþe stronge. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 9662 Ȝuf a man of holichirche halt eni lay fe..he ssal..In playdinge & in asise be. a1400 in K. W. Engeroff Untersuchung ‘Usages of Winchester’ (1914) 82 (MED) Þe ordre of pledynge þat me pledeth in þe Cytee of Wynchestre so ys by swych a vys þat euerych man..þat is empleted may habbe þre resonable somounces. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iii. pr. iii. 73 Whennes comen elles thise foreyne compleyntes or quereles of pledynges [L. forenses querimoniae]? 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 431 b/1 Doubtyng that the stryf accions and pletynges of the poure shold come onely to the presence and knowlege of hys counceyllours. 1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. K8 That they be iuges, parties, and aduocates of one selfe pletinge. 2. Law. The advocating of a cause in a court of law; the art or practice of composing pleadings (see sense 4); the body of rules and regulations relating to this art. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > [noun] pleadinga1325 pleadera1500 pleadery1600 case-putting1645 a1325 Lent (Corpus Cambr.) 68 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 131 (MED) A balled reson makeþ [he] þanne & plaidinge þerto And resons haþ þerto inowe. c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 166 Ther ne shal no pledynge [c1405 Hengwrt pletynge; v.r. pleynyng] auaile ne no sleighte; we shullen yeue rekenynge of euerich ydel word. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. iii. 294 Shal no seriaunt for here seruyse were a silke howue Ne no pelure in his cloke for pledyng [c1400 C text v.r. pletyng] atte barre. 1522 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte 315 In pletynge of theyr case At the Commune Place. c1550 (?a1475) Lament. Sinner in Anglia (1911) 34 296 (MED) Ther shall noo lordes ffor you praye, noo justice, nor noo man off lawe..your pleting [v.r. pletyne] ys nott worthe a hawe. 1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. 76 For the more ful & forcible destruction of delayes & ambushes in pleading. a1637 B. Jonson Timber 426 in Wks. (1640) III There is a difference betweene Mooting, and Pleading, betweene Fencing, and Fighting. 1672 G. Mackenzie Pleadings Pref. sig. A3^v Pointed and short pleading, wherein the Speaker singles out a point, and presses it. 1723 J. Henley in J. Henley et al. tr. Pliny the Younger Epist. & Panegyrick I. iii. v. 114 He was employ'd in Pleading for a good Space of Time, and dy'd in his Fifty Sixth Year. 1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 34 The terms, or times for pleading and ending of causes in the Civil Courts. 1824 H. J. Stephen Treat. Princ. Pleading 270 Where in respect of several subjects or several defendants, a severance has thus taken place in the pleading, this may..lead to a corresponding severance in the whole subsequent series. 1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. ix. 255 The proceedings included a series of assertions and reassertions of right by the parties, and this formal dialogue was the parent of the Art of Pleading. 1959 Dict. National Biogr. 1941–50 at Clyde, James Avon His interventions made for a high standard of pleading, and he had a stimulating influence on all who appeared before him. 1983 European Intellectual Prop. Rev. Jan. 8/2 Already at least one objection of inutility has succeeded, but another one failed for incorrect pleading. 3. gen. Intercession, advocacy; supplication, earnest entreaty; an instance of this. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > earnest request or entreaty > pleading or urging (a cause, etc.) soliciting1429 pleadingc1450 intercession?a1513 c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 97 ‘What’, quod þe synner, ‘..Canst þou neuere of þi pletinge blynne?’ 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQQvii^v Makyng (as saynt Poule saith) interpellacion & pletyng for vs, before y^e father of heuen. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. i. 191 I will be deafe to pleading and excuses, Nor teares nor prayers shall purchase for abuses. View more context for this quotation 1651 A. Weamys Contin. Sydney's Arcadia 94 Poor Pamela all this while seemed like one in a trance, not having power to contradict Musidorus in his pleadings, nor yet able to submit her yielding to them. a1758 A. Ramsay Adieu for While ii Thou dost not obey The pleading of love. 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. i. 20 The beauty..of Adeline, united with the pleadings of humanity in her favour. 1815 J. Cormack Abol. Fem. Infanticide Guzerat viii. 127 The avarice of the Jahrejahs, which was so powerful as to stop the ear against the most tender pleadings of nature. a1849 E. A. Poe Spectacles in Wks. (1850) II. 338 Should I yield to your entreaties—and, I may add, to the pleadings of my own bosom—would I not be entitled to demand of you a very—a very little boon in return? 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §5. 511 ‘Comus’..rises into an almost impassioned pleading for the love of virtue. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 5/3 Millicent Brady has taken lessons for six years at her home in Brighton, and her father has at last been won over by pleadings for a winter of hard study with a more ‘classy’ teacher in St. Louis. 1947 T. Williams Streetcar Named Desire xi. 170 Sue turns her face to him and stares at him with desperate pleading. 1995 Echoes 30 Sept. 9/3 Orchestrated by keysman Clifton ‘Bigga’ Morrison peeking over a bank of electronic ivories,..the nine-piece outfit were supple yet solid, loose limbed and loping, the perfect foil for Gregory's plaintive pleadings and moanings. 4. Law. A formal written (formerly oral) statement in a civil action, prepared by each side and setting forth the cause of action or the defence. Now usually in plural: the formal statements on both sides, excluding (in strict use) the count or declaration.See also special pleading n. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > [noun] > (written) pleadings or statement of case pleading1531 parola1625 case stated1649 information1681 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xiv. sig. Gviii^v The pleadynge vsed in courte and Chauncery called motes. 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 30 §1 Replycacyons, reioynders, rebutters, ioynyng of issues, and other pleadynges. a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 26 Pleadings must be certain, because the adverse party may know wherto to answer. 1658 P. Osborne Pract. Exchequer Court 160 In every long vacation all the bills..and other pleadings are to be taken from the common files. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xx. 293 Pleadings are the mutual altercations between the plaintiff and defendant; which at present are set down and delivered into the proper office in writing. 1825 Act 6 George IV c. 120 §10 The Record of the Pleadings as adjusted shall be authenticated by the Lord Ordinary by his Signature; and the Record so made up and authenticated shall be held as foreclosing the Parties from the Statement of any new Averments in point of Fact. 1883 H. H. S. Croft in T. Elyot Gouernour I. 152 (note) The pleadings down to the time of Edward III were vivâ voce, and those who pleaded orally would no doubt pursue the method first recommended by Quintilian in his Institutes, and afterwards adopted by later Rhetoricians. 1885 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 29 451 The Court is entitled to look at the pleadings in the Irish action. 1958 Southern Reporter (U.S.) 2nd Ser. 102 508/2 Such documentary evidence may be received in complementation of the pleadings to determine in limine whether plaintiff's cause of action is well founded. 1972 Times 9 Dec. 17/7 When the judge intimated that he thought some of the matters raised by Mr Maxwell were not relevant to the pleadings as they stood, Mr Maxwell sought to amend his claim by putting in new allegations. 1991 T. Zuber et al. Canad. Law (ed. 5) xv. 246 The statement of claim, the statement of defence, the crossclaim, the counterclaim, the third-party claim, and so on are collectively known as the pleadings. Compounds † pleading house n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > place where court is held > [noun] > courthouse doom-housec1000 speech-housec1050 tolsel1373 porcha1382 pleading house1440 courthouse1483 plead housec1485 pleading place1565 law-housea1610 county hall1670 judiciary1681 Palais de Justice1792 plea-house1818 doom-hall1870 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 405 Pletynge howse, or place, placitorium. pleading place n. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > place where court is held > [noun] > courthouse doom-housec1000 speech-housec1050 tolsel1373 porcha1382 pleading house1440 courthouse1483 plead housec1485 pleading place1565 law-housea1610 county hall1670 judiciary1681 Palais de Justice1792 plea-house1818 doom-hall1870 1565 W. Alley Πτωχομυσεῖον f. 18 Demosthenes commeth forth to the pleading place, hauing a great piece of wooll rounde about his necke. 1656 A. Cowley Isaiah XXXIV in Pindaric Odes v Then shall the Market and the Pleading-place Be Choakt with Brambles and oregrown with grass. 1709 T. Sprat Plague of Athens 19 Laws that like his in Blood are writ. The Benches and the pleading-place they leave. a1967 V. Watkins Coll. Poems (1986) 207 God looked at Sodom In that pleading place, Sodom, Sodom, Sodom, Sodom. Down looked Abram, And he lost his case. pleading point n. ΚΠ 1847 J. Campbell Lives Lord Chancellors VII. ccxiii. 638 Although he had never meddled with special pleading while at the bar,—if a special pleading point arose on a writ of error while he was presiding on the woolsack. 1888 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 13 9 As a pleading point, this would have been good. 1999 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 20 Dec. 1 It really is a pleading point... Provided you don't challenge the fairness of the dismissal the actual act of termination and confine your claim to the terms of the contract. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). pleadingadj. Brit. /ˈpliːdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈplidɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: plead v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < plead v. + -ing suffix². That pleads; esp. entreating, beseeching, imploring. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > [adjective] > requesting or petitioning askingOE petitor1453 supplicatoryc1475 suppliant1550 entreating1566 placitatory1569 petitory1576 supplicant1577 suing1581 pleading1594 entreatful1596 conjuring1597 entreative1598 supplicative1601 petitionary1604 precatory1610 supplicating1612 petitioning1615 postulatorya1631 eucticala1638 obsecratory1645 placitory1651 imploring1655 precative1662 beseeching1704 obsecrationary1829 imploratory1832 suppliant-like1837 solicitive1865 solicitant1886 1594 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis (new ed.) sig. C^v Impatience chokes her pleading tongue. 1606 Returne from Pernassus iv. iii Wonder it is sweet friend thy pleading breath, So like the sweet blast of the southwest wind, Melts not those rockes of yee. 1688 A. Behn Lycidus 147 Not pleading tears, nor vows cou'd thee awake, Or warm the unform'd somthing—to desire. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. vi. 115 Whether those pleading Orators were Persons educated in the general Knowledge of Equity, or only in provincial, national, and other local Customs. 1779 S. T. Coleridge Poems 171 Oft I watch'd with angry gaze, Fearful saw his pleading look, Anxious heard his fervid phrase. 1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 46 What avail..the knit soul that pleading and pale Makes wan the quivering cheek? 1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xix. 185 He spoke with a pleading earnestness, taking Alan by the breast of the coat. 1901 ‘H. McHugh’ John Henry 93 I hate to have a girl plant her pleading peepers on me. 1968 A. K. Armah Beautyful Ones are not yet Born xiv. 204 The boatman's eyes were no longer the diffuse, vaguely pleading eyes of the hireling the man had seen the first time. 1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 28 June 52/1 Before he left for the US Gorbachev spoke in pleading tones to his countrymen of the need to continue to support perestroika. Derivatives ˈpleadingness n. pleading quality; plaintiveness. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > earnest request or entreaty > importunity or urgency instancec1340 importunityc1425 instancy1515 importunateness?1526 importunacy1548 importancea1555 importancy1576 opportunitya1586 urgencec1592 urgency1611 clamorousnessa1617 pressingness1661 precariousness1666 supplicancy1728 beseechingness1863 imploringness1863 pleadingness1866 demandingness1930 1866 N. Bellairs Wayside Flowers iii. 27 Cry..of a little child... Its intense pleadingness haunted me. 1993 Hartford Courant (Connecticut) (Nexis) 11 Apr. g1 The librettist..worked the living-room full of potential donors with that mixture of bravado and pleadingness that all artists learn to adopt when speaking to the moneyed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1275adj.1594
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