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† ˈfirmance Sc. Obs.
Also 6 fermans, firmans, 7 fermance.
[ad. OF. fermance (1) an enclosure, (2) a guarantee, f. fermer to shut, confirm, secure:—L. firmāre: see firm v.]
1. The state or condition of being confined; confinement, imprisonment; chiefly in phrase: (to keep, put) in firmance. Also concr. An enclosure.
1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 176 Within fermans and parkis cloys of palys. c1565Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (1728) 63 Himself to be put in sicker Firmance. 1613Bp. Forbes On Revel. xx. 221 The surenesse is cleered in the person apprehender, and manner of fermance. 1679in G. Hickes Spirit of Popery 64 We..do Command..all Sheriffs..to Search for..the Persons afternamed..and put them in sure Ward and Firmance. 1721Wodrow Hist. Ch. Scot. (1829) II. ii. xiii. 485 Three men in firmance for robbery. 1752J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 137 The Rebels..put them in sure Ward, Firmance and Captivity.
2. Assurance, confidence; also, a source of confidence. to make firmance to: to give a pledge of faithfulness to.
1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. Proheme Cosmogr. vi, So lang I swomit in hir seis deip That sad auising with hir thochtfull lance Couth find na port to ankir hir firmance. Ibid. ii. i. 10 b, For the fame of ane nobyll prince is ane grete firmance to his realme. Ibid. ii. xvi. 21 b, Als sone as Gillus was maid kyng..to stabil the realme to him with sickir firmance, he tuk þe aithis of his pepil.
b. Firmly established condition, stability.
1533Bellenden Livy (1822) 107 The Romanis..ar brocht to sic firmance, that they may..sustene the plesand frute of libertie. |