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单词 to fine off
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to fine off
b. intransitive. spec. To pay a penalty in order to be granted exemption from the duties of an office, esp. that of alderman or sheriff. Also in later use transitive (in passive): to exempt (a person) from the duties of an office on the payment of a penalty. Frequently with for (the office of). Also in to fine off. Also figurative. Now historical.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > ransom > pay ransom [verb (intransitive)] > to escape duties of an office
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society > authority > punishment > fine > [verb (intransitive)] > pay fine > for absence or exemption
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > get exemption [verb (intransitive)] > pay in order to escape duty
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1637 J. Shirley Gamester ii. sig. C4 This is old Barnacle... One that is to fine for alderman.
1663 S. Pepys Diary 1 Dec. (1971) IV. 404 Mr. Crow, who hath fined for Alderman.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 82 So sadly dull And stupid, as to fine for Gull.
1680 L. Jenkins Let. 26 Aug. in State Papers Domest. Charles II (P.R.O.: SP 44/62) f. 67 He hath given his Word to some friends yt if Bethel did hold he would fine off.
1682 Modest Enq. Election Sheriffs London 41 Charlton..chose rather to Fine than to run the risk of being confirmed by the Commons to hold.
1690–1700 Order of Hospitalls sig. Bvi Except he be such a one as have borne th' Office of an Alderman,..or hath fined for the same.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 116. ⁋3 Some have fined for Sheriffs.
1853 J. Mills Brit. Jews ii. ii. 89 No person can be elected Warden unless he has served, or has been fined for the office of Treasurer.
1960 C. Blagden Stationers' Company xiii. 253 These Liverymen..were not called upon to serve or fine for the office of Renter Warden.
1986 T. Liu Puritan London ii. 80 Fined for the office of Alderman in 1654, White was chosen master for the Grocers' Company in 1659 and Common Councilman in 1659–60.
2002 E. Cruickshanks et al. House of Commons, 1690–1715 II. 383/1 Despite such immediate success, both fined off, evidently aware that the office might have precluded their candidacy at the forthcoming general election.
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to fine down (also off)
b. transitive. to fine down (also off): to reduce rent by (a certain amount or part) on payment of a fine (fine n.1 7b). Also: to reduce (rent) or the rent relating to (a property or lease) in this manner. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [verb (transitive)] > reduce on payment of fee
to fine down (also off)1705
1705 London Gaz. No. 4183/3 The Tenant fining down a Part.
1709 London Gaz. No. 4540/5 Fining off part of the Rent after the rate of ten Years Purchase.
1736 Rep. Comm. Petition Samuel Low 4 Having fined down Six Pence per Acre at the Time of taking his Lease.
1742 J. Anderson Geneal. Hist. House of Yvery II. vi. xi. 393 Having..fined down for a long Term of Years divers large Estates.
1800 M. Edgeworth Castle Rackrent 30 Then fining down the year's rent came into fashion.
1832 Q. Jrnl. Agric. 3 No. 17. 743 Some proprietors will fine down a lease whenever a tenant pleases, and will renew the lease from the period of fining down.
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