α. late Middle English remenent, late Middle English–1500s remanente, late Middle English– remanent, 1500s remamment; also Scottish pre-1700 ramanent, pre-1700 remanent, pre-1700 reminent.
β. Scottish pre-1700 remainent.
remanentn.1
/ˈrɛmənənt/, U.S. /ˈrɛmənənt/ 1. The remainder, the remaining part, the rest.† a. Of a thing or number of things. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > the rest
lave971
otherOE
remanantc1350
remnanta1375
surplusc1400
remanent1414
reversionc1450
rest?1473
remain1483
allowance1521
reliquation1658
rump1708
balance1788
1414 Rolls of Parl.: Henry V (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1414 §22. m. 3 That evere it stande in the fredom of your hie regalie, to graunte whiche of thoo [things] that you luste, et to werune [read wernne] the remanent.
?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 128 Ȝif þu drawe oute þe mater þat is corupte & leue behynde þe mater þat is harde, it is harde to mature þe remanent.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 407 Acomptenge that a grete solace to ȝiffe a caldron with potages to men syttenge abowte and to diuide to euery man his porcion, kepenge to hym the remanente [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. alle the ouer pluse].
1516–17 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 447/1 The remanent to be disponit for the wele of the place.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 6 Beholding..yf that knight Antheus haplye, Were frusht, or remanent of Troian nauye wer hulling.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. v. iii. f. 23v/1 We must cut of the threde..& cure the remanent of the wound.
1598 A. M. in tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. Ep. to Rdr. sig. *viv If..this my worcke..shalbe aggreeable, and acceptable, vnto manye, it will then administre courage, vnto me, to pursue, and addresse the remanent of my studyes.
1641 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 2 Jan. (1855) 167 The remanent of hir said husband's rentes and estaite.
1683 J. Dalrymple Decisions Lords of Council & Session I. 146 The Defender had Right to the remanent of the Coal.
1849 G. Ross Leading Cases Law Scotl. v. 167 The whole lands and others, both such as shall be possessed by the debtor, and the remanent of the lands and others contained in the said comprisings, shall pertain to the creditor irredeemably.
b. Of a number of people. Now rare.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > the rest > of persons
lavea1000
the other deal1258
remanantc1330
remnanta1375
reliefa1382
residuea1382
remanent1446
remain1483
remaindera1547
1446 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 124 (MED) He schall no thing do singulerly be hymselfe..yat schall be lettyng, grefe, or prejudice unto ye remanent of myne executors.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 78 Twelve kynges..were buryed in the chirch of Seynte Stevins..And the remanent of knyghtes and other were buryed in a grete roche.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cclxx The remanent assayle him with enuy.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) ix. 59 He sleu men, vemen ande childir,..the remanent of the pepil var constrenȝeit to fle.
1633 Campion's Hist. Ireland ii. iii. 75 To settle the Realme of Ireland, King Iohn..banished the Lacyes, subdued the remanents, tooke pledges [etc.].
1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. ii. xx. § 1. 457 Ballindalloch was one of the pursuers himself, and the remanent were his servants.
a1713 J. Stewart Dirleton's Doubts (1715) 27 Agnes his Daughter..shall succeed to her Part and Portion natural equally with the Remanent of Robert's bairns.
2001 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 61 846 It included farmers, both landed and landless, day laborers in towns, slave holders usually involved in multiple enterprises, slaves, the remanent of the Cherokee nation, and wealthy summer people.
2.
a. A remaining part or amount; a remnant. In plural: remains.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun]
bilevena1325
reliefa1382
residuea1382
remanant?a1400
remanence?a1425
remanent?a1425
remainc1430
remainant1430
rest?1440
remainingc1480
remainer1519
remanet?a1527
remainder1560
resident1581
residuum1636
restancy1667
residual1839
?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 112v (MED) Þer is grete ardoure & rennynge of þe yȝen, & ecch, and þer is sumtyme remanent of þe obtalmia.
c1475 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 642) (1790) 58 (MED) In the next morning..in every office of houshold the remanentes must be taken.
1570 E. Grindal Let. Sir W. Cecil in Wks. (Parker Soc.) 325 I am informed..that among the people there are many remanents of the old [religion].
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 252 Some remanents that were kept to be eaten.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 273 The remanents of that house..is turned ouer for a shelterage to sheepe.
1655 S. Rutherford Covenant of Life Opened i. v. 14 The heathen cannot be said to have any inward calling to Grace and Glory, because there be some remanents of the Image of God left in them.
a1750 J. Mottley Hist. & Surv. Cities London & Westm. (1753) I. ii. ii. 295/2 Dame Alice his Wife, to dispose of the Remanent of the said Torches at her Pleasure.
1766 Rules & Orders Court of Exchequer 34 In Case the Court shall not hear all the Causes directed for that Day, then the Remanents to be heard first before the Causes appointed for next Day.
1784 S. Pegge Curialia: Pt. 2 (1791) Introd. p. iii If I should intrude too long with..seemingly unimportant subjects, it is because no writer has hitherto gone into them at large—and because they contain remanents of Antiquity not totally unworthy of being redeemed from oblivion.
1894 Manitoba (Winnipeg) Morning Free Press 5 Mar. 8/4 Remanents of flannelette and gingham.
1926 Jrnl. Parasitol. 12 142 By July 1 many galls contain only larvae of this size and the distorted remanents of the adults.
1964 Science 17 Jan. 241/2 This may be a remanent of a small crater wall.
2003 S. V. Hicks in A. Milchman & A. Rosenberg Foucault & Heidegger 82 Clinging to the life-denying ‘esoteric’ remanents of the ideal.
b. A remaining person. Usually in plural.
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1651 C. Barksdale Nympha Libethris ii. x. 32 The female remanent, with observant eye, I'd have to learn her Mothers huswifry.
1715 F. Grant Law, Relig., & Educ. ii. 79 The Nations placed behind them in Samaria, sent for a Priest... The Remanents left..to forwarn the Egyptians (in whom they had trusted).
1791 S. Pegge Curialia: Pt. 3 86 The Parties appear to have been remanents of the ancient Office of Yeoman of the Crown.
1887 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. in B. Kidd Social Evol. (1894) ii. 47 Only a few remanents of the powerful tribes linger on.
1955 M. C. McMillan Constit. Devel. Alabama xx. 358 Opposed by the Republicans, the last remanents of the Populists, and Democrats who spoke for the ‘common man’.
1978 D. P. Werlich Peru iii. 65 That evening, General Canterac surrendered the remanents of the imperial army in the Sierra and Lima capitulated a few days later.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > division > result of > remainder
remanentc1450
residuec1450
remainer1543
residual1557
remain?a1560
remainder?a1560
rest1608
residue1808
c1450 Art Nombryng in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 37 (MED) The remanent: 20. Wherof me shalle withdraw: 22; The nombre to be withdraw: 2.
1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 91 The remanent shallbe the iust eleuation of the Pole.
1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue iv. 175 Then if the bredth be more then the remanent of the length let the bredth bee the length, and the remanent of the length, the bredth. And seeke them likewise in the Tables, and what ariseth of both the numbers, adde together.
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the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > lengthening in duration or prolonging > a continuation
pursuita1393
remanenta1500
continuance1552
continuation1580
prosecutiona1641
rolling1800
a1500 Warkworth's Chron. (1839) 1 Referre them to my copey, in whyche is wretyn a remanente lyke to this forseyd werke.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
remanentn.2
/ˈrɛmənənt/, U.S. /ˈrɛmənənt/ Law. Now rare.
= remanet n. 2a.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > a lawsuit > a postponed suit
remainera1450
remaneta1660
remanent1766
1766 Rules & Orders Court of Exchequer 34 In Case the Court shall not hear all the Causes directed for that Day, then the Remanents [1707 Remanets] to be heard first before the Causes appointed for next Day.
1829 J. Bentham Justice & Codification Petitions iii. 83 The other part [of suits] remain unheard and are called remanets or remanents.
1872 Irish Law Times 14 Dec. 631/2 Things, at least in the Queen's Bench, are much worse, and no reasonable conjecture can be made as to the date at which the remanents of last July can possibly be disposed of.
1907 in W. W. Dewhurst Rules of Pract. U.S. Courts, Annotated 227 All remanents shall be placed at the head of the argument list.
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remanentadj.
/ˈrɛmənənt/, U.S. /ˈrɛmənənt/ 1.
a. Remaining over and above; other; additional. Chiefly Scottish. Now rare.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [adjective]
remanent1443
remainant1445
remainingc1475
remnant1550
remainder1567
leftc1595
residual1609
residuous1626
reliqued1628
restant1663
good1684
reversionary1816
relict1898
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [adjective] > remaining in excess
remanent1443
over1494
subsecive1613
overplus1640
surplus1641
leftover1864
1443 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1835) V. 298 (MED) Þe Kyng commaunded þat letres undre prive seal be directed to sir John Fortescu, chief justice of þe Kinges benche, and to þe remenant justices of þe same bench.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 39 Bi an huge gret quantite ouer the remanent parti of the same lawe.
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 1759 (MED) The principalle agent of the qualitees fowre hath power Royalle..The remenant qualitees to conuerte to his kynde.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. ii. ii. 135 Þai and þe remanent conspiratouris..began to commoun of mony hie materis.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. Apol. Chirurgians f. 53/1 Corrodent..bones..doe alter & permutate the remanent part of bone.
1623 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Stirling (1887) I. 159 Aganes the aires of umquhile William Bell and remanent haill possessouris of the tounes landis.
a1691 Sir G. Mackenzie in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) 421/1 I have sent your Grace the remanent sheets of the first part of my Criminalls.
1715 in A. Mitchell Inverness Kirk-session Rec. (1902) 261 The said present Kirk Treasurer and the Remanent Members of the Kirk Session.
1774 in A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock App. iii. 305 Remanent counsellors above named.
1823 M'Clatchie Douglas III. xvii. 227 The Earl..went out to give the remanent orders of the day to his troops.
1884 Christian World 5 June 426/1 The Moderator, and ‘remanent members’ of the Assembly.
1917 Jedburgh Gaz. 13 July 3 After giving, in detail, the names of the Magistrates, etc., present on that occasion, the minute said, ‘and the remanent members of Council’.
b. Left behind, remaining, when the rest is removed, used, done, etc.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > remaining in one place
stablea1400
dormantc1440
standing1469
remanent?a1475
ledger1547
fixed1559
restiff1578
statary1581
permanent1588
consistent1604
stationary1631
fundamental1633
resident1653
sedentary1667
statual1752
loco-restive1796
untransmigrated1821
stabile1896
static1910
sessile1917
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 15 Gedrenge the eres of cornes remanent.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 15 The fragmentes of the cophinnes remanent [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. scrappes of þe releef of þe twelf cupes].
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. 24/15 And quhen thai had etin all the bowellis of this sacrifice, comperit the Pinarianis to eit of the remanent mete thareof.
1585 in H. Paton Rep. Laing MSS (1914) I. 51 The remanent silver..of myne left over the taffetie.
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 7) 659 The very remanent snuffe of originall goodnesse must languish out in a stinking dissolutenesse.
1651 Bp. J. Taylor Clerus Domini 30 This being..the onely remanent expresse of Christs sacrifice on earth.
1699 W. Bates Spiritual Perfection ix. 268 When Sin has dominion..there is a remanent affection to it in Mens Hearts.
1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost I. i. iv. 12 Its remanent stringy Substance may be so comb'd and teaz'd, as to be weav'd into a Web.
1814 J. West Alicia de Lacy IV. 93 Some remanent affections of unsubdued nature carnalized her heart.
1864 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Jan. 107 It paralyzed the remanent members from the difficulty of filling up so many deserted parishes.
1937 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 122 240 The apertures were also used in various orders to counteract any possibility of a remanent effect of one aperture upsetting the next observation.
1996 G. Goodland Littoral 4 Remanent quarryhouses ledged into seacliffs.
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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adjective] > lasting, continuous
endlessc888
perpetuala1382
unceasing1382
restless?c1425
biding1430
continual1462
remanent?a1475
incessant1532
uncessant1548
incessable1552
never-ceasing1567
still1570
ceaseless1590
indesinent1601
unceasable1604
unintermissive1610
constant1653
jugial1654
tarrying1654
insuccessive1678
perpetuative1785
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 425 Thei were chaungede in to other similitudes..the mynde of man remanente [L. manente] in theyme.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 143 (MED) Kynge Astiages toke a grete hoste to this Arpagus to fiȝhte ageyne men of Persides, hym selfe remanent [L. remanente] in Medea.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. iii. sig. n.vv The faith of Christ..In the citie of legions was truely remanent.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) i. 18 Remanent vitht in the plane mane landis far vitht in oure cuntre.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar §18 There is no effect remanent upon the body.
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1789 Times 27 Nov. 4/2 Remanent to last sitting in Michaelmas Term.
1811 Times 19 Jan. 4/1 His Lordship this day finished the remanent causes at Whitehall.
1843 Times 2 Mar. 8/5 (law notice) Remanent.
4. Physics and Geology. Of magnetism: remaining in a substance or specimen after removal of the inducing field; of the nature of remanence (remanence n. 3).
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > magnetism > [adjective] > residual or retained
residual1832
remanent1866
1866 E. Atkinson in tr. A. Ganot Elem. Treat. Physics (ed. 2) x. v. 678 The iron used for the electromagnet..must be pure, and be made as soft as possible... If this is not the case the bar retains, even after the passage of the current, a quantity of magnetism which is called the remanent magnetism. [No corresponding passage in the French original.]
1880 Nature 4 Mar. 436/2 The remanent magnetism..seems weakened.
1944 Proc. IRE 32 667/2 The remanent flux will go through a series of values corresponding to the sum and difference frequencies between the recording signal and the supersonic signal.
1971 I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xvi. 237/1 The intensity of this remanent or permanent component of magnetisation in basalts is invariably greater than that induced by the present Earth's field.
2001 R. W. Cahn Coming of Materials Sci. vii. 288 The kind of ‘rewritable’ system that is now in extensive use depends on phase changes: in outline, one laser beam heats the material..above a critical temperature and remanent magnetization is achieved by an applied field as the spot cools.
Derivatives
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [noun] > adjournment of proceeding(s)
continuance1425
remanentcy1791
continuation1861
1791 J. Bentham Panopticon Postscr. ii. xvi. 533 To prevent remanentcy by collusion betwixt the Governor and an able-bodied convict.
1808 J. Bentham Sc. Reform 76 By the terrors of remanentcy, as above explained, the plaintiff consents to accept a part of what is his due, giving up the rest.
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