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▪ I. ˈpairment1 Now only dial.
[Aphetic f. apairment, appairment: cf. pair v.2]
= appairment, impairment; injury, deterioration.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 2395 After þe peirement [v.r. after apeyrment] of his liuere. 1382Wyclif 2 Cor. vii. 9 That in no thing ȝe suffre peirement of vs. c1440Jacob's Well 205 Ȝif þe thyng be werse, when þou restoryst it,..þe muste restore þe peyrement. 1874R. E. Leader in Sheffield Gloss. (1888), A gardener will say his plants will take no pairment under such and such conditions.
▪ II. † ˈpairment2 Obs.
In 4 peyr-, 4–5 payrement.
[app. a. an AF. *pairement, f. pairer to couple.]
? Coupling, consortship; in phr. to hold (a woman) in pairment.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 58 Engle his wife he [Harald] drofe away, & held in peyrment Egyue, þat was an abbes, out of hir hous had Maugre hire wille [Langtoft Et l'abesse Eggyve de sa mesun robbayt, La tynt cum sa femme]. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 5969 His Aunte was rauysched with Thelamon; He held here longe In payrement And gat sir Ayax verament. |