muniment
English
Alternative forms
- miniment [15th-17th c.]
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman muniment, Middle French muniment, and their source, Latin mūnīmentum (“fortification, defence”), from mūnīre (“to fortify”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
muniment (plural muniments)
- (chiefly law) A deed, or other official document kept as proof of ownership or rights or privileges; an archived document. [from 15th c.]
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Blount to this entry?)
- (obsolete, in the plural) Things which a person or place is equipped with; effects, furnishings, accoutrements. [15th-19th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene: Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, London: Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, →OCLC, book IV, canto VIII, stanza VI:
- Vpon a day as ſhe him ſate beſide, / By chance he certaine miniments forth drew, / Which yet with him as relickes did abide / Of all the bounty which Belphebe threw / On him, whilſt goodly grace ſhe did him ſhew: […]
- (obsolete) Something used as a defence. [16th-19th c.]
- Shakespeare
- other muniments and petty helps
- Shakespeare
Derived terms
Middle French
Noun
muniment m (plural munimens)
References
- muniment on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Old French
Noun
muniment oblique singular, m (oblique plural munimenz or munimentz, nominative singular munimenz or munimentz, nominative plural muniment)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (muniment)
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