puisneadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈpjuːni/, U.S.

/ˈpjuni/

Forms: 1500s puine, 1500s– puisne, 1600s pui'nee, 1600s puiney, 1600s puiny, 1600s puisnie, 1600s pu'ne, 1600s pu'nee, 1600s pu'ness (plural), 1600s pusney, 1600s pusnie, 1600s–1700s puisné, 1600s–1700s puisny, 1700s puisnè, 1700s puisnee, 1900s puiné. See also puny n.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French pusné, puisné.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman pusné, puiné, puné, punie, etc. and Anglo-Norman and Middle French puisné (French puîné ) younger, youngest, especially of siblings (a1174 or earlier in Old French), later, more recent (a1327 in Anglo-Norman), weakly (a1327 or earlier in Anglo-Norman), junior (a1412 or earlier in Anglo-Norman) < puis (c1050 in Old French; < an unattested post-classical Latin form *postius , alteration of classical Latin posteā afterwards (see postea n.), after melius better) + né (see né adj.). Compare Old Occitan poisnat , puysnat . Compare the variant puny n., puny adj. (apparently always only a graphic variant) which shows the earliest evidence of the word in English.With use as noun compare Anglo-Norman and Middle French puisné (a1174 or earlier in Old French). The following apparently either shows a reborrowing from French, or an isolated literary revival in sense A. 1a:1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos xxix. 135 Poisoned his brother puiné Laying blame on Siena. In sense A. 1b after Law French puisne, puysne, adjective (in puisne justice: 1600 or earlier; earlier designating the most junior justice of a court of law ( 1571 or earlier)).

A. adj.

†a. Born later; younger; junior (in appointment, etc.). Cf. puny adj. 1. Obsolete.mulier puisne: see mulier n.²

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > junior person > [adjective]

youngOE

youngerOE

puisne1565

minor1575

puny1579

junior1623

jun.1708

mi1791

Junr.1813

tertius1870

the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > younger than an age > younger

youngerOE

puisne1565

after-born?1575

secundus1826

society > authority > office > holder of office > [adjective] > subordinate

secondary1450

subordinatec1485

puny1579

sublunary1624

puisne1705

junior1766

1565 T. Stapleton in tr. F. Staphylus Apol. f. 162^v Neither may you..be offended..iff a young scholer and puine student in diuinite aduenter to encounter with you.

1609 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 2) Puiney, younger borne.

a1618 J. Sylvester Funeral Elegie M. Wyts in G. de S. Du Bartas Divine Weekes & Workes (1621) 1168 Vnder her Virgin-sway, Her puisne Orphan-sisters to defray.

1664 V. Oldis in A. Brome Songs (ed. 2) sig. B5 The puisne Law-wrights too may spare to look On this grave Sirs reports.

1705 in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 30 Dec. (O.H.S.) I. 152 Being his Puisne Chancellor by 7 years.

1724 London Gaz. No. 6307/3 The Poor Knights..began the Procession.., the Puisné going foremost.

1812 Times 31 Jan. 3/3 If this alarming news should prove true..public indignation..must break out in direct addresses to the Prince Regent for the removal of Mr. Yorke and his puisne colleagues.

b. Law. Designating any judge, justice, etc., other than the most senior in the higher courts of law.Now only in the United Kingdom and some former British dependencies (as Canada, Australia, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [adjective] > inferior

puny1579

secondary1599

puisne1648

1648 J. March Reports 124 Because it was before that Mallet the puisne Judge was Judge, the Court gave order that it should be argued again.

1688 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 136 Mr. Serjeant Stringer..is made puisné judge of the King's Bench.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. iv. 41 The judges of this court are at present four in number, one chief and three puisnè justices.

1792 N.-Y. Directory 179 Officers of the State of New-York... Officers in the Supreme Court. Hon. Robert Yates, Chief Justice. Hon. John Sloss Hobart, Hon. John Lansing, jun. Puisne Judges. John M'Kesson, Clerk.

1876 C. M. Yonge Cameos cxxvi, in Monthly Packet May 410 Sir John, though nearly ninety, still sat as senior puisne judge in the Court of King's Bench.

1877 Act 40 & 41 Vict. c. 9 §5 A puisne judge of the High Court of Justice means for the purposes of this Act a judge of the High Court other than the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and the Lord Chief Baron.

1885 Dict. National Biogr. I. 28/2 In..1816, he accepted a puisne judgeship in the court of Common Pleas.

1959 Dict. National Biogr. 1941–50 710/2 He was appointed chief justice of Bengal, the first puisne judge of the Calcutta High Court to be so promoted.

1986 Canberra Times 7 May 25/5 The senior puisne judge (who is an absolute moral for the Chief Justiceship come February next year).

1994 National (Canad. Bar Assoc.) June 28/3 He was appointed a puisne judge of the Quebec Superior Court at 42.

2006 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 7 Sept. (News section) 4 Two of Northern Ireland's most senior judges are to retire... Their successors will come from within the current panel of ten puisne judges.

†2. Small, insignificant; petty; ineffectual, weak, puny. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [adjective]

evil971

lowc1175

poor?c1225

feeblec1275

vilea1300

petty1372

unthende1377

secondary1386

petitc1390

unmeeta1393

illa1400

commonc1400

coarse1424

indigent1426

unlikelyc1450

lesser1464

gross1474

naughty1526

inferior1531

reprobate?1545

slender1577

unlikely1578

puny1579

under1580

wooden1592

sordid1596

puisne1598

provant1601

subministrant1604

inferious1607

sublunary1624

indifferent1638

undermatched1642

unworthy1646

underly1648

turncoated1650

female1652

undergraduate1655

farandinical1675

baddishc1736

ungenerous1745

understrapping1762

tinnified1794

demi-semi1805

shabby1805

dicky1819

poor white1821

tin-pot1838

deterior1848

substandard1850

crumby1859

cheesy1863

po'1866

not-quite1867

rocky1873

mouldy1876

low-grade1878

sketchy1878

midget1879

junky1880

ullaged1892

abysmal1904

bodgie1905

junk1908

crap1936

ropy1941

bodger1945

two-star1951

tripey1955

manky1958

schlocky1960

cack1978

wank1991

bowf1994

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little importance or trivial

eathlyc890

lighteOE

littleOE

small?c1225

singlec1449

easy1474

triflous1509

naughty1526

slender1530

slight1548

shrimpish1549

slipper1567

truanta1572

toyous1581

trivious1583

mean1585

silly1587

nicea1594

puny?1594

puisne1598

pusill1599

whindling1601

sapless1602

non-significant1603

poor1603

unsignificant1603

flea-bite1605

perishing1605

lank1607

weightless1610

fonda1616

penny farthing1615

triviala1616

unweighty1621

transitory1637

twattling1651

inconsiderate1655

unserious1655

nugal1656

small drink1656

slighty1662

minute1668

paddling1679

snitling1682

retail1697

Lilliputian1726

vain1731

rattletrap1760

peppercornish1762

peppercorn1791

underling1804

venial1806

lightweight1809

floccinaucical1826

small-bore1833

minified1837

trantlum1838

piffling1848

tea-tabular1855

potty1860

whipping-snapping1861

tea-gardeny1862

quiddling1863

twaddling1863

fidgeting1865

penny ante1865

feather-weighted1870

jerkwater1877

midget1879

mimsy1880

shirttail1881

two-by-four1885

footle1894

skittery1905

footery1929

Mickey Mouse1931

chickenshit1934

minoritized1945

marginal1952

marginalized1961

tea-party1961

little league1962

marginalizing1977

minnowy1991

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > [adjective] > not used or accustomed > not used or experienced

youngOE

inexpertc1450

unfleshed1542

green1548

fresha1557

callow1580

pen-feathered1598

puisne1598

puny1602

unfledgeda1616

inexperienced1626

pin-feathered1641

sucking1648

infledgeda1661

inexperient1670

fledgeless1769

wet behind the ears1851

1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia ii. sig. B8^v Another [poet] with his supple passion..Makes puisne Lucius in a simpathy In loue with's pibald Laundres.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iv. 39 As a puisny Tilter, y^t spurs his horse but on one side.

c1635 H. Glapthorne Lady Mother (1959) iii. 59 More cunning then to be ore reacht by puisnie cosnage.

a1657 C. Croke Fortune's Uncertainty (1667) 31 Young Rodolphus, who immediately took this puisne Servitor to task.

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 281 He..can not be dismayed at the puisnee threats..of the lesser factions.

1782 V. Knox Ess. (new ed.) II. clii. 279 Frighten a puisne race of peers.

1810 S. Green Romance Readers II. ix. 8 The three first children..were..all girls: at length, a puisne boy made his appearance.

3. Later, more recent; of subsequent date; secondary. Now only in legal use. puisne mortgage: a mortgage of unregistered land in which the lender does not hold the title deeds of the land as security.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [adjective] > more recent

junior1621

puny1628

puisne1655

low1897

1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. iv. 63 in Church-hist. Brit. No mention in this visitation of Gonvil Hall, (the Pusnie House in Cambridge) as if so late and little, that the Commissioners did oversee it.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 124 There would upon such a Supposition follow an Eternity that had a beginning, an Eternity that was puisne to some other thing or some other Eternal.

1787 J. J. Powell Treat. Law Mortgages (ed. 2) 558 Though the assets be equitable, debts on puisne mortgages shall be first discharged.

1884 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 12 430 As regards the further advance they were incumbrancers puisne to the plaintiffs.

1889 Sir A. Kekewich in Law Times 61 71/2 Powers of sale are to be found in second and other puisne mortgagees.

1902 Times 27 Mar. 5/2 A trustee is not obliged to lend trust money on a puisne mortgage.

1991 R. M. Coates Moeran's Pract. Conveyancing (ed. 12) 113 Since 1 January 1970 a puisne mortgage must be registered as a land charge under the Law of Property Act 1969.

2000 K. Gray & S. F. Gray Elem. Land Law (ed. 4) 732 The legal mortgage not protected by the deposit of title deeds—the so-called ‘puisne mortgage’—..requires protection by some form of registration.

B. n.

†1. gen. A junior; an inferior, an underling; a novice. Obsolete.Quot. 1592 may be an example of the specific use at sense B. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > junior person > [noun]

youngestOE

youngerOE

juniora1530

young blood1557

puny1567

puisne1592

kid1690

minimus1848

baby1854

minor1864

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun]

lowerc1175

nethererc1443

inferior?1504

puny1579

under-being1587

puisne1592

subaltern1605

little sistera1634

undermatcha1661

wretch1688

sub-man1840

missing link1863

small-timer1910

society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner

younglingOE

new-comeOE

novice1340

ginner?c1400

beginner1470

apprentice1489

prentice1489

infant1526

freshmana1557

intrant1560

enterer1565

puny?1570

weakling1575

new comeling1587

novist1587

incipient1589

puisne1592

abecedary1596

neophyte1600

abecedarian1603

bachelor1604

novelist?1608

alphabetary1611

breeching boy1611

tiro1611

alphabetarian1614

principiant1619

unexperienced1622

velvet head1631

undergraduatea1659

young stager1664

greenhorn1672

battledore boy1693

youngster1706

tironist1716

novitiatea1734

recruit1749

griffin1793

initiate1811

Johnny Newcome1815

Johnny Raw1823

griff1829

plebe1833

Johnny-come-lately1839

new chum1851

blanc-bec1853

fledgling1856

rookie1868

elementarian1876

tenderfoot1881

shorthorn1888

new kid1894

cheechako1897

ring-neck1898

Johnny1901

rook1902

fresh meat1908

malihini1914

initiand1915

stooge1930

intakea1943

cub1966

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > of little worth

toy1573

puny1579

puisne1592

urchin1593

short-arse1706

rip1781

snip-jack1846

twopence1866

jerk1935

society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > first-year student

puny1548

freshman1583

puisne1592

freshwomana1627

bejan1642

nib1655

jib1827

greeny1834

fox1839

freshie1845

rat1850

buttery Benjie1854

pennal1854

yellow-beak1865

fresher1875

yellow-neb1879

yearling1908

frosh1915

1592 Petition Ciuill Dissention v. 30 Euery puisne knoweth it is no treason to kill the Bb. [= Bishops] though it bee worthily treason to attempt any hurt to her Highnesse.

1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia ii. sig. C5^v Why thou young puisne art thou yet to learne, A harper from a shilling to discerne?

1616 B. Jonson Poëtaster (rev. ed.) iii. iv, in Wks. I. 307 To prey vpon pu'ness, and honest citizens, for socks, or buskins.

c1640 Capt. Underwit ii. i, in A. H. Bullen Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1883) II. 340 Preach to the puisnes of the Inne sobrietie.

1663 J. Heath Flagellum (1672) 29 Wherein Mr. Pym, Hambden, and other Puisnes with Cromwel, mainly busied themselves.

2. Law. A puisne judge, justice, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] > junior or lower judge

puisne1598

puny1599

1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia v. sig. D6^v Oh he's a puisne of the Innes of Court, Come from th'Vniuersity.

1629 J. Shirley Wedding iii. i. sig. F3 Thou talk'st like a puisne.

1765 J. Rayner Digest Law Conc. Libels xix. 64 The Coif calls the Serjeants to own themselves Freemen from the Frowns of Judges, who sometimes browbeat Puisnes.

1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 169 In Pratt's time at least, viz. anno 1725, the Puisnes were not in the secret.

1897 Dict. National Biogr. XLIX. 162/2 The point was discussed by Rolle in consultation with two of his puisnes, two admiralty judges, and two civilians.

1907 Cambr. Mod. Hist. Prospectus 87 The Lord Chief Justices, the Chief Baron and five puisnes upheld the plea that no patent for sole printing restrained the rights of the University Press.

1949 Dict. National Biogr. 1931–40 212/1 When [the lord chief justice]..went to the United States of America as ambassador..Darling as senior puisne of the King's Bench division served as his deputy.

1992 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 41 523 A rather minor and esoteric branch of the law, ordinarily occupying the Lord Chief Justice and two puisnes for an hour or two.

Derivatives

† puisneship n. Obsolete rare the office and function of a puisne judge (cf. punyship n.).

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] > junior or lower judge > office of

puisneship1825

1825 J. Bentham Observ. Mr. Peel's Speech 53 The thousands a year salaries of the minor and common law Chiefships, and Puisneships, and Masterships.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	puisne
释义	puisneadj.n. Brit. /ˈpjuːni/, U.S. /ˈpjuni/ Forms: 1500s puine, 1500s– puisne, 1600s pui'nee, 1600s puiney, 1600s puiny, 1600s puisnie, 1600s pu'ne, 1600s pu'nee, 1600s pu'ness (plural), 1600s pusney, 1600s pusnie, 1600s–1700s puisné, 1600s–1700s puisny, 1700s puisnè, 1700s puisnee, 1900s puiné. See also puny n. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French pusné, puisné. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman pusné, puiné, puné, punie, etc. and Anglo-Norman and Middle French puisné (French puîné ) younger, youngest, especially of siblings (a1174 or earlier in Old French), later, more recent (a1327 in Anglo-Norman), weakly (a1327 or earlier in Anglo-Norman), junior (a1412 or earlier in Anglo-Norman) < puis (c1050 in Old French; < an unattested post-classical Latin form postius , alteration of classical Latin posteā* afterwards (see postea n.), after melius better) + né (see né adj.). Compare Old Occitan poisnat , puysnat . Compare the variant puny n., puny adj. (apparently always only a graphic variant) which shows the earliest evidence of the word in English.With use as noun compare Anglo-Norman and Middle French puisné (a1174 or earlier in Old French). The following apparently either shows a reborrowing from French, or an isolated literary revival in sense A. 1a:1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos xxix. 135 Poisoned his brother puiné Laying blame on Siena. In sense A. 1b after Law French puisne, puysne, adjective (in puisne justice: 1600 or earlier; earlier designating the most junior justice of a court of law ( 1571 or earlier)). A. adj. 1. †a. Born later; younger; junior (in appointment, etc.). Cf. puny adj. 1. Obsolete.mulier puisne: see mulier n.² ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > junior person > [adjective] youngOE youngerOE puisne1565 minor1575 puny1579 junior1623 jun.1708 mi1791 Junr.1813 tertius1870 the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > younger than an age > younger youngerOE puisne1565 after-born?1575 secundus1826 society > authority > office > holder of office > [adjective] > subordinate secondary1450 subordinatec1485 puny1579 sublunary1624 puisne1705 junior1766 1565 T. Stapleton in tr. F. Staphylus Apol. f. 162^v Neither may you..be offended..iff a young scholer and puine student in diuinite aduenter to encounter with you. 1609 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 2) Puiney, younger borne. a1618 J. Sylvester Funeral Elegie M. Wyts in G. de S. Du Bartas Divine Weekes & Workes (1621) 1168 Vnder her Virgin-sway, Her puisne Orphan-sisters to defray. 1664 V. Oldis in A. Brome Songs (ed. 2) sig. B5 The puisne Law-wrights too may spare to look On this grave Sirs reports. 1705 in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 30 Dec. (O.H.S.) I. 152 Being his Puisne Chancellor by 7 years. 1724 London Gaz. No. 6307/3 The Poor Knights..began the Procession.., the Puisné going foremost. 1812 Times 31 Jan. 3/3 If this alarming news should prove true..public indignation..must break out in direct addresses to the Prince Regent for the removal of Mr. Yorke and his puisne colleagues. b. Law. Designating any judge, justice, etc., other than the most senior in the higher courts of law.Now only in the United Kingdom and some former British dependencies (as Canada, Australia, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [adjective] > inferior puny1579 secondary1599 puisne1648 1648 J. March Reports 124 Because it was before that Mallet the puisne Judge was Judge, the Court gave order that it should be argued again. 1688 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 136 Mr. Serjeant Stringer..is made puisné judge of the King's Bench. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. iv. 41 The judges of this court are at present four in number, one chief and three puisnè justices. 1792 N.-Y. Directory 179 Officers of the State of New-York... Officers in the Supreme Court. Hon. Robert Yates, Chief Justice. Hon. John Sloss Hobart, Hon. John Lansing, jun. Puisne Judges. John M'Kesson, Clerk. 1876 C. M. Yonge Cameos cxxvi, in Monthly Packet May 410 Sir John, though nearly ninety, still sat as senior puisne judge in the Court of King's Bench. 1877 Act 40 & 41 Vict. c. 9 §5 A puisne judge of the High Court of Justice means for the purposes of this Act a judge of the High Court other than the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and the Lord Chief Baron. 1885 Dict. National Biogr. I. 28/2 In..1816, he accepted a puisne judgeship in the court of Common Pleas. 1959 Dict. National Biogr. 1941–50 710/2 He was appointed chief justice of Bengal, the first puisne judge of the Calcutta High Court to be so promoted. 1986 Canberra Times 7 May 25/5 The senior puisne judge (who is an absolute moral for the Chief Justiceship come February next year). 1994 National (Canad. Bar Assoc.) June 28/3 He was appointed a puisne judge of the Quebec Superior Court at 42. 2006 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 7 Sept. (News section) 4 Two of Northern Ireland's most senior judges are to retire... Their successors will come from within the current panel of ten puisne judges. †2. Small, insignificant; petty; ineffectual, weak, puny. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [adjective] evil971 lowc1175 poor?c1225 feeblec1275 vilea1300 petty1372 unthende1377 secondary1386 petitc1390 unmeeta1393 illa1400 commonc1400 coarse1424 indigent1426 unlikelyc1450 lesser1464 gross1474 naughty1526 inferior1531 reprobate?1545 slender1577 unlikely1578 puny1579 under1580 wooden1592 sordid1596 puisne1598 provant1601 subministrant1604 inferious1607 sublunary1624 indifferent1638 undermatched1642 unworthy1646 underly1648 turncoated1650 female1652 undergraduate1655 farandinical1675 baddishc1736 ungenerous1745 understrapping1762 tinnified1794 demi-semi1805 shabby1805 dicky1819 poor white1821 tin-pot1838 deterior1848 substandard1850 crumby1859 cheesy1863 po'1866 not-quite1867 rocky1873 mouldy1876 low-grade1878 sketchy1878 midget1879 junky1880 ullaged1892 abysmal1904 bodgie1905 junk1908 crap1936 ropy1941 bodger1945 two-star1951 tripey1955 manky1958 schlocky1960 cack1978 wank1991 bowf1994 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little importance or trivial eathlyc890 lighteOE littleOE small?c1225 singlec1449 easy1474 triflous1509 naughty1526 slender1530 slight1548 shrimpish1549 slipper1567 truanta1572 toyous1581 trivious1583 mean1585 silly1587 nicea1594 puny?1594 puisne1598 pusill1599 whindling1601 sapless1602 non-significant1603 poor1603 unsignificant1603 flea-bite1605 perishing1605 lank1607 weightless1610 fonda1616 penny farthing1615 triviala1616 unweighty1621 transitory1637 twattling1651 inconsiderate1655 unserious1655 nugal1656 small drink1656 slighty1662 minute1668 paddling1679 snitling1682 retail1697 Lilliputian1726 vain1731 rattletrap1760 peppercornish1762 peppercorn1791 underling1804 venial1806 lightweight1809 floccinaucical1826 small-bore1833 minified1837 trantlum1838 piffling1848 tea-tabular1855 potty1860 whipping-snapping1861 tea-gardeny1862 quiddling1863 twaddling1863 fidgeting1865 penny ante1865 feather-weighted1870 jerkwater1877 midget1879 mimsy1880 shirttail1881 two-by-four1885 footle1894 skittery1905 footery1929 Mickey Mouse1931 chickenshit1934 minoritized1945 marginal1952 marginalized1961 tea-party1961 little league1962 marginalizing1977 minnowy1991 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > [adjective] > not used or accustomed > not used or experienced youngOE inexpertc1450 unfleshed1542 green1548 fresha1557 callow1580 pen-feathered1598 puisne1598 puny1602 unfledgeda1616 inexperienced1626 pin-feathered1641 sucking1648 infledgeda1661 inexperient1670 fledgeless1769 wet behind the ears1851 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia ii. sig. B8^v Another [poet] with his supple passion..Makes puisne Lucius in a simpathy In loue with's pibald Laundres. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iv. 39 As a puisny Tilter, y^t spurs his horse but on one side. c1635 H. Glapthorne Lady Mother (1959) iii. 59 More cunning then to be ore reacht by puisnie cosnage. a1657 C. Croke Fortune's Uncertainty (1667) 31 Young Rodolphus, who immediately took this puisne Servitor to task. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 281 He..can not be dismayed at the puisnee threats..of the lesser factions. 1782 V. Knox Ess. (new ed.) II. clii. 279 Frighten a puisne race of peers. 1810 S. Green Romance Readers II. ix. 8 The three first children..were..all girls: at length, a puisne boy made his appearance. 3. Later, more recent; of subsequent date; secondary. Now only in legal use. puisne mortgage: a mortgage of unregistered land in which the lender does not hold the title deeds of the land as security. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [adjective] > more recent junior1621 puny1628 puisne1655 low1897 1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. iv. 63 in Church-hist. Brit. No mention in this visitation of Gonvil Hall, (the Pusnie House in Cambridge) as if so late and little, that the Commissioners did oversee it. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 124 There would upon such a Supposition follow an Eternity that had a beginning, an Eternity that was puisne to some other thing or some other Eternal. 1787 J. J. Powell Treat. Law Mortgages (ed. 2) 558 Though the assets be equitable, debts on puisne mortgages shall be first discharged. 1884 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 12 430 As regards the further advance they were incumbrancers puisne to the plaintiffs. 1889 Sir A. Kekewich in Law Times 61 71/2 Powers of sale are to be found in second and other puisne mortgagees. 1902 Times 27 Mar. 5/2 A trustee is not obliged to lend trust money on a puisne mortgage. 1991 R. M. Coates Moeran's Pract. Conveyancing (ed. 12) 113 Since 1 January 1970 a puisne mortgage must be registered as a land charge under the Law of Property Act 1969. 2000 K. Gray & S. F. Gray Elem. Land Law (ed. 4) 732 The legal mortgage not protected by the deposit of title deeds—the so-called ‘puisne mortgage’—..requires protection by some form of registration. B. n. †1. gen. A junior; an inferior, an underling; a novice. Obsolete.Quot. 1592 may be an example of the specific use at sense B. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > junior person > [noun] youngestOE youngerOE youngerOE juniora1530 young blood1557 puny1567 puisne1592 kid1690 minimus1848 baby1854 minor1864 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] lowerc1175 nethererc1443 inferior?1504 puny1579 under-being1587 puisne1592 subaltern1605 little sistera1634 undermatcha1661 wretch1688 sub-man1840 missing link1863 small-timer1910 society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner younglingOE new-comeOE novice1340 ginner?c1400 beginner1470 apprentice1489 prentice1489 infant1526 freshmana1557 intrant1560 enterer1565 puny?1570 weakling1575 new comeling1587 novist1587 incipient1589 puisne1592 abecedary1596 neophyte1600 abecedarian1603 bachelor1604 novelist?1608 alphabetary1611 breeching boy1611 tiro1611 alphabetarian1614 principiant1619 unexperienced1622 velvet head1631 undergraduatea1659 young stager1664 greenhorn1672 battledore boy1693 youngster1706 tironist1716 novitiatea1734 recruit1749 griffin1793 initiate1811 Johnny Newcome1815 Johnny Raw1823 griff1829 plebe1833 Johnny-come-lately1839 new chum1851 blanc-bec1853 fledgling1856 rookie1868 elementarian1876 tenderfoot1881 shorthorn1888 new kid1894 cheechako1897 ring-neck1898 Johnny1901 rook1902 fresh meat1908 malihini1914 initiand1915 stooge1930 intakea1943 cub1966 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > of little worth toy1573 puny1579 puisne1592 urchin1593 short-arse1706 rip1781 snip-jack1846 twopence1866 jerk1935 society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > first-year student puny1548 freshman1583 puisne1592 freshwomana1627 bejan1642 nib1655 jib1827 greeny1834 fox1839 freshie1845 rat1850 buttery Benjie1854 pennal1854 yellow-beak1865 fresher1875 yellow-neb1879 yearling1908 frosh1915 1592 Petition Ciuill Dissention v. 30 Euery puisne knoweth it is no treason to kill the Bb. [= Bishops] though it bee worthily treason to attempt any hurt to her Highnesse. 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia ii. sig. C5^v Why thou young puisne art thou yet to learne, A harper from a shilling to discerne? 1616 B. Jonson Poëtaster (rev. ed.) iii. iv, in Wks. I. 307 To prey vpon pu'ness, and honest citizens, for socks, or buskins. c1640 Capt. Underwit ii. i, in A. H. Bullen Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1883) II. 340 Preach to the puisnes of the Inne sobrietie. 1663 J. Heath Flagellum (1672) 29 Wherein Mr. Pym, Hambden, and other Puisnes with Cromwel, mainly busied themselves. 2. Law. A puisne judge, justice, etc. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] > junior or lower judge puisne1598 puny1599 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia v. sig. D6^v Oh he's a puisne of the Innes of Court, Come from th'Vniuersity. 1629 J. Shirley Wedding iii. i. sig. F3 Thou talk'st like a puisne. 1765 J. Rayner Digest Law Conc. Libels xix. 64 The Coif calls the Serjeants to own themselves Freemen from the Frowns of Judges, who sometimes browbeat Puisnes. 1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 169 In Pratt's time at least, viz. anno 1725, the Puisnes were not in the secret. 1897 Dict. National Biogr. XLIX. 162/2 The point was discussed by Rolle in consultation with two of his puisnes, two admiralty judges, and two civilians. 1907 Cambr. Mod. Hist. Prospectus 87 The Lord Chief Justices, the Chief Baron and five puisnes upheld the plea that no patent for sole printing restrained the rights of the University Press. 1949 Dict. National Biogr. 1931–40 212/1 When [the lord chief justice]..went to the United States of America as ambassador..Darling as senior puisne of the King's Bench division served as his deputy. 1992 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 41 523 A rather minor and esoteric branch of the law, ordinarily occupying the Lord Chief Justice and two puisnes for an hour or two. Derivatives † puisneship n. Obsolete rare the office and function of a puisne judge (cf. punyship n.). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] > junior or lower judge > office of puisneship1825 1825 J. Bentham Observ. Mr. Peel's Speech 53 The thousands a year salaries of the minor and common law Chiefships, and Puisneships, and Masterships. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1565
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