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▪ I. † interess, n. Obs.
Also 5–6 enteres(se, en-, intresse.
[ME. and AF. interesse, a. med.L. interesse compensation for loss, compensatory payment, n. use of L. interesse to be between, to differ, make a difference, to concern, be of importance. Cf. Pr., It., Ger. interesse, Sp. interes n.; the OF. n. was interest: see interest n.]
1. The relation of being legally concerned or having part (in the ownership or possession of anything); legal concern, title, or claim; = interest n. 1.
[1387–8Rolls Parlt. III. 246/2 Si ascun pretende d'avoir droit ou interesse en ycelles [forfaitures], sue au Conseil si lui semble a faire. ]1430–1Ibid. IV. 376/2 That..Proclamation be made..that alle ye persones yat pretende any interresse to object ayens yat partie yat pretendith hym to be mulire [etc.]. 1473Sir J. Paston in P. Lett. No. 732 III. 100 That my moodre be agreable to the same, by cawse of th' entresse that she hathe for my brother William, whyche shall nott be off age thys vij. yeer. 1491Act 7 Hen. VII, c. 2 §5 The right title and interesse that they..have in the same. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xx. 28 All rightis and enteresses that euery baron had in Scotlande, was than clene forgyuen. 1659England's Conf. 6 The House of Commons..had..asserted their interess in the Militia.
b. transf. Concern, part, share in (anything). = interest n. 1 d, e.
c1374Chaucer Fortune 71 The heuene hath proprete of sykyrnesse, This world hath euer resteles trauayle; Thy laste day is ende of myn intresse [v. rr. interesse, intersse, encresse] In general, this reule may nat fayle. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas Prol. 39 Though woe with ioye have an intresse. Ibid. i. i. (1544) 1 b, The soyle embroyded ful of sumer floures Where wedes wicked had none interesse. 1569Murray in H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary Q. Scots (1824) 58 The trial of the said Quenis interes in the murder of the King our soverane Lordis father. 1663Bp. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. (1667) 287 There he found a discourse of the Nature of Ioy..of the Interess that our Animal Spirits have in it.
2. The relation of advantage or profit; benefit; = interest n. 2, 2 b.
1452Rich. Dk. York Charges agst. Dk. Somerset (MS. Cott. Vesp. C. xiv. lf. 40) For the grete welfare and the comen availle and interesse of your mageste Roiall and of this youre noble roialme. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xiv. §11 Such oftentimes is the corruption of humane nature, that it will..thrust the pietie due to our Countrey vnder the inferiour respect of particular interesses. 1613Sherley Trav. Persia 83 To embarke you in dangerous enterprises for others interesses. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 120 In a noble minde one generous act prevailes more than all wordly interesses. 1657Heylin Hist. Ref. I. ii. iii. 32 That they should lay aside their particular interesses, to center all together upon one design. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. ii. §21. 84 That it is also the Interess of Civil Sovereigns and of all Common-wealths, that there should neither be Deity nor Religion, the Democritick Atheists would perswade in this manner.
b. Self-interest; = interest n. 5.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 847 These are the men, who afterwards Argue from Interesse also against a God and Religion.
3. Injury; compensation for injury; = interest n. 9. [Cf. med.L. damna et interesse, F. dommages et intérêts.]
1489Caxton Faytes of A. iii. xi. 191 He is holden as he was byfore to suche damages and Interesses that he hathe doon unto hym by wronge hande.
4. Interest on money, usury; = interest n. 10.
1529Hen. VIII Instruct. Orator Rome (MS. Cott. Vit. B. xi. lf. 74 b), Which money..shalbe truely repayde with interesse. 1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke xix. 153 He..would haue streightely required it together with the encrease of entresse. 1716Let. to Dk. Montrose 19 Nov. in Scott Rob Roy Introd., He carries..my books and bonds for entress, not yet paid, along with him.
▪ II. † inteˈress, v. Obs.
Pa. pple. interessed, -est.
[f. interess n.: cf. F. intéresser to invest with a share, etc.; earlier, to injure, hurt, damage (15th c. in Godef.), f. L. interesse.]
1. trans. To invest (a person) with a right to or share in something; to admit to a privilege; = interest v. 1. Chiefly in pass., to be interessed, to have a right or share.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. (1807) II. 35 The sonnes of king Malcolme were aided..to obteine the crowne of Scotland, whereunto they were interessed. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 378 Who..disclaiming all other Titles as litigious, interessed himselfe here by the only Title of Conquerour. 1605Shakes. Lear i. i. 87 To whose yong loue, The Vines of France, and Milke of Burgundie, Striue to be interest. 1617Hieron Wks. II. 102 Man, in his first estate..was in fauour with God, and interessed into the attendance of angels. 1657Austen Fruit Trees ii. 59 The soule sees it selfe interessed in the kingdome and all the riches and treasures of it. 1674Playford Skill Mus. I. xi. 47 To teach them to those who have been interessed in my house.
2. To cause to be objectively concerned; to affect, implicate, to involve; = interest v. 2. Chiefly in pass.
1570Earl Lennox Let. in H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary Q. Scots (1824) 229 Hir richt dewtie to ȝow and me, being the parteis interest. 1617J. Woodford in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 199 [This] could not be done without interessing the honour of some, which was not to be touched. 1622E. Misselden Free Trade 89 In the East India Action certainely the Kings Honour is interessed. 1627Lisander & Cal. iii. 50 A suspicion that she was interest in the discourse. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. ii. 30 Being unwilling to interesse the reputation of Holy Writ..in the doubtful contentions of Naturalists.
3. To affect injuriously; to injure, endamage.
1598R. Grenewey Tacitus' Ann. iii. ii. (1622) 66 Whereof being conuicted, he could not be interessed, if he could purge himselfe of the latter crimes. 1599Burgh Rec. Aberdeen (Spald. Cl.) II. 181 Dyvers of the cuntriemen and of the inhabitantis of this burght ar grytumlie intrest in the wynter day, throw the insufficiencie and hoillis in the said calsey. 1607E. Grimstone tr. Goulart's Mem. Hist. 127 [She] was found interessed in the heart with certaine imposthumes and two stones.
4. To cause to take an active part, to rouse to action, to engage; refl. to take part (F. s'intéresser); = interest v. 4.
1623Massinger Dk. Milan i. i, The wars so long continued..Have interess'd, in either's cause, the most Of the Italian princes. 1693Dryden Juvenal Ded. (1697) 17 He might have gain'd the Victory for us Christians, without interessing Heaven in the Quarrel. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) II. iii. ii. 416 That which interesses and engages men as Good.
5. To affect with a feeling of concern; refl. To concern oneself. pass. To be concerned.
1664Marvell Corr. Wks. 1872–5 II. 173 No Prince in Christendom doth interess Himself more in your Majestie's health..than my Master. 1697Dryden æneid Ded., To love our native country..to be interessed in its concerns, is natural to all men.
Hence † inteˈressing vbl. n., admitting (into a position, etc.).
a1655Vines Lord's Supp. (1677) 342 The interessing of Christ into pre-eminence. |