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† proˈmerit, v. Obs.
[f. L. prōmerit-, ppl. stem of prōmer-ēre (also dep. -ērī) to deserve, merit, also, to earn, gain, win, gain over, hence in Vulgate to earn the favour of, render favourable, propitiate. See pro-1 and merit v.]
1. trans. To win the favour of; to please, gratify, propitiate.
1582N. T. (Rhem.) Heb. xiii. 16 Beneficence and communication do not forget, for with such hostes God is promerited. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. vii. (1642) 399 As if.. God were promerited with such washing service. [1643Owen Death of Death Wks. 1852 X. 287 The Vulgar Latin once reads promeretur..and the Rheimists, to preserve the sound, have rendered it promerit.]
2. To merit, deserve; to win or procure by merit.
1610Bp. Carleton Jurisd. 201 The Princes of auncient times..when they came to make petition for the Imperiall crowne, were wont by some worthy office to promerit the fauour of the Church of Rome. 1624Bp. Hall No Peace w. Rome §10 That which the satisfactions of Christ haue promerited for vs. 1659Pearson Creed ii. (1839) 111 From him alone, must we expect salvation, acknowledging..there is..nothing in any other creature which can promerit or procure it to us.
3. ? To deserve well of. rare.[This seems to have arisen from an erroneous analysis, connecting it with pro merito for or on account of merit.] 1641Bp. Hall Serm. Jas. iv. 8 Rem. Wks. (1660) 87 He loves not God, no not while he [God] promerits him with his favours. 1644― Serm. Eph. iv. 30 ibid. 112 A people that God had no whit promerited by his favours.
So † proˈmerit n. [ad. L. prōmerit-um, prop. neut. pa. pple. of prōmerēre: see above], merit, desert; † proˈmeritor [agent-n. in L. form f. prōmerēre], one who merits or deserves.
1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Trav. Ded., Wks. iii. 76 If it fall out (not according to any Promerits of mine) but out of mine owne expectation of your..vnparallel'd disposition. 1675J. Smith Chr. Relig. Appeal i. 34 Whatsoever mischiefs befel..their posterity, though many Ages after the decease of the Promeritors. |