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▪ I. † ˈsumpture1 Obs. rare.
Also 8 sumture.
[f. L. sumptus (see sumptuous) + -ure.]
1. Sumptuousness.
1616Chapman Homer's Hymn Hermes 127 Celebrating all Her traine of seruants; and collaterall Sumpture of Houses.
2. Expense; attrib. in sumpture law = sumptuary law.
1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Indies II. xlvii. 164 For want of sumture Laws among them, it was hard to know the Gentleman from the Beggar.
▪ II. † ˈsumpture2 Obs.
Altered form of sumpter after words in -ure.
1608Chapman Byron's Conspir. iii. i, Endure this, and be turnd into his Moile To beare his sumptures. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche vii. cclviii, Their sumptures now they hastily provide, Though yet uncertain which way they should tend. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. Disc. xi. §7 To..load their sumptures stil the more by how much their way is shorter. 1706J. Stevens Sp. Dict., Repostéro..a Sumpture cloth. 1707― tr. Quevedo's Com. Wks. (1709) 383 We have no Tidings of our Sumptures and Carriages. |