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arbitrament, -ement|ɑːˈbɪtrəmənt|
Forms: 5–9 arbitre-, 5–8 arbitri-, 6–7 arbiter-, 7 arbitter-, 6– arbitrament.
[a. OF. arbitrement, f. arbitre-r: see arbitre v. and -ment; latinized as arbitrament, a form rare before c 1830, and disapproved by Johnson, but now the more usual. Du Cange has arbitrāmentum in med.L.]
†1. The right or capacity to decide for oneself; freedom of the will, free choice, pleasure. Obs.
c1400Test. Loue iii. (R.) Euery man hath free arbitrement to choose good or yuel to perform. 1548Geste Pr. Masse 136 If we moughte order Christes supper after our arbitrement. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 641 To stand or fall Free in thine own Arbitrement it lies. 1810Coleridge Friend i. xv. (1867) 65 The oldness of my topics, evil and good, necessity and arbitrement.
2. The power to decide for others; absolute decision, direction, or control. Obs. (exc. as it approaches 3 b.)
1534Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) E vj, I committe to your charge and arbitrement, that thing. 1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. iii. (1617) 119 Some things belonging vnto externall Discipline and Ceremonies, are in the power and arbitrement of the Church. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 168 But of late yeares all is left to the arbitrement of the Admiralls, to consider the finder or taker with some portion for his trauells, charges, and danger. a1734North Exam. iii. vii. ⁋36. 529 The Affairs of the Crown were..lapsing into the total Arbitriment of the Commons. 1842Alison Hist. Eur. XIV. xcv. §46. 121 The arbitrament of the affairs of Europe. 1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. III. iv. iii. §16 Subduing all his powers, impulses, and imaginations, to the arbitrement of a merciless justice.
3. The deciding of a dispute by an authority to whom the conflicting parties agree to refer their claims in order to their equitable settlement.
1549Coverdale Erasm. Par. 1 Cor. Argt. 2 To finishe it among themselves, by the arbitremente of any suche, as they thought mete. [Rom. Argt. ‘arbitrament.’] c1613Rowlands More Knaues Yet 39 An arbitterment, To make all friends. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 447 By way of Arbitrement, when both parties doe make choice of honest man to end their causes. 1831Brewster Newton I. iv. 87 In the arbitraments of science it has always been a difficult task to adjust the rival claims of competitors. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. ix. 293 The controversy had required the arbitrament of the elders.
b. fig. and transf.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. i. 168 The arbitrement of Swords. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) I. xxv. 230 Impossible to bring the cause to mortal arbitrement at that time. 1863Kirk Chas. the Bold I. 211 Appeal to the slow arbitrament of Time. 1870Gladstone Glean. IV. xxix. 219 An immediate resort to the arbitrament of war.
4. The sentence pronounced by an arbitrator, or by one deciding authoritatively; decision; sentence accepted as authoritative.
1424Paston Lett. No. 4 I. 14 Wolde have holde and performyd the sayd ordinaunce, arbitrement, and award. 1576Abp. Grindal Fruitf. Dial. (1843) 61 But will you stand to St. Augustine's arbitrement in the matter? 1642Bridge Wound. Consc. Cured v. 37 To renounce their arbitrement and sentence. 1848Lytton Harold v. 324, I will not abide by the arbitrement of a pope. 1872Ruskin Eagle's Nest §182 Neither stone, flower, beast, nor man can understand any single reason of the arbitrement.
†5. Settlement or arrangement of a dispute; compromise, friendly agreement. Obs.
1549Olde Erasm. Par. 1 Tim. i. 5 He whiche shoulde make the arbitrement of concorde bytwene God and menne. 1625Bacon Unity Relig., Ess. (Arb.) 427 As if they would make an Arbitrement, betweene God and Man. |