| 单词 | to receive satisfaction |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto receive satisfaction a. The payment in full of a debt, or the fulfilment of an obligation or claim; the action or fact of making reparation, paying compensation, or undergoing punishment in restitution for an injury or offence (also with for (rarely †of), specifying the injury or offence). Also: the means by which such payment or restitution is made. Frequently in to make (also †do) satisfaction, in satisfaction (of), to receive satisfaction. Now chiefly Law. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > [noun] satisfaction1398 acquittance?a1400 amortizement1439 financec1460 discharge1534 clearing1579 settlement1729 discharging1735 settling1761 liquidation1786 extinguishment1796 amortization1810 service1817 amortizing1840 extinction1845 clearance1858 pay-off1864 admortization1903 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > [noun] yield601 angildeOE maegboteOE allowancea1325 finea1400 boota1450 reparationa1460 contentation1467 disdomage1502 contention1516 regard1568 contentment1603 atonement-money1611 satisfaction1621 satisfaction money1651 content1689 compensation1804 smart money1817 hoot1820 indemnization1836 compo1941 MCA1973 society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > [noun] > that which is paid satisfaction1621 satisfaction money1651 society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > atonement > [noun] > means of > money, gift, act, etc. atonement-money1611 satisfaction1621 1398–9 in C. Innes Liber Sancte Marie de Melros (1837) 489 Qvhillez..hale gre satisfactioun and payment to the forsaidez religiouse..be..made. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 5 ‘My successor schalle iugge and do to the satisfaccion.’ The wedowe seide, ‘What schalle that profite the and if thy successour do satisfaccion for me’. a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 431 That the seid Chamberleyns shuld in recompense & satisfaccion of their seid disobeysaunce..bryng [etc.]. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 78 Angers me full euyll your angard desyre When ye couet..Satisfaction to be sent fro my selfe euyn Syn ye are cause of þis care. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. v. 207 If by direct, or by colaturall hand They find vs toucht, we will our kingdome giue,..and all that we call ours To you in satisfaction . View more context for this quotation 1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 86 Fyne, 10,000 marks;..publique satisfaccion of his faulte by submission and acknowledgement thereof. 1683 Britanniæ Speculum 46 He..himself escaped Shipwrack, and received Satisfaction for his Losses out of the publick Treasury. 1733 Clerk's Eng. Tutor II. 316 Satisfaction acknowledged by T.J. upon a Judgment obtained by him the said T.J. against W.W. for three hundred Pounds Debt. 1785 W. Brown Rep. High Court Chancery 1 64 The question is, whether Butler could not give any bounty to his son but what would go in satisfaction. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 215 A devise of an annuity to the wife..has been held not to be in satisfaction of dower. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) ix. 77 He had a savage pleasure in making the poor wretches [sc. his creditors] wait, and in shifting from court to court and from term to term the period of satisfaction. 1937 Eng. Hist. Rev. 52 641 Creditors of the government who received satisfaction for their debts from the lands of the Crown or the Church. 1969 J. R. Brackett Negro in Maryland ii. 12 A certain tribe, which had refused to make satisfaction for sundry insolences and rapines. 2017 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 84 112 A corporation whose shares are seized in satisfaction of a claim involving the corporation. < as lemmas |
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