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amerciament|əˈmɜːsɪəmənt|
Also 5–6 amercyament.
[Refashioned from amercement, after med.L. amerciāment-um, f. amerciāre: see amerciate. More freq. than amercement as techn. term.]
1. = amercement 1.
1543Grafton Contn. Harding's Chron. 508 Euery thyng was haunsed above the measure; amercyamentes turned into fines, fines into raunsomes. c1550Sir. J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 18 Gif ony of thame cumis not, he sall be in the Kingis amerciament. 1576Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 202 The amerciament of bloudshead. 1607J. Cowell Interpr. (1637) D j b, Amerciament..signifieth the pecuniarie punishment of an offendor against the King or other Lord in his Court. 1714Scroggs Courts-Leet (ed. 3) 119 He was amerced, and by the Amerciament affeered to 10s. 1776Customs of Epworth in Stonehouse Axholme (1839) 145 All amerciaments made to be the usual and customary amerciaments. 1860Forster Grand Remonstr. 22 That such amerciaments..should be imposed by the oath of the good men of the neighbourhood.
2. = amercement 2.
c1425Chaucer Pars. T. (Lansd. MS.) 678 Elles take þei of her bondemen amerciament. 1473–4Act 12 & 13 Edw. IV in Oxf. & Camb. Enactmts. 9 Fynes, amerciamentes and other profites. 1514Fitzherb. Just. Peas (1538) 83 The parsons that shal be gatherers of the sayde amerciamentes. 1605Play of Stucley (1878) 183 Theres your amerciaments. And give Jack Dudley this from me to pay his fees. 1783Martyn Geog. Mag. II. 400 He collects all public fines, distresses, and amerciaments. 1800Colquhoun Comm. & Pol. Thames xi. 311 The emoluments..arise chiefly from fines and amerciaments. |