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▪ I. precary, n. arch.|ˈprɛkərɪ|
[See senses.]
†1. A grant upon request, at the will and during the pleasure of the grantor. [ad. L. precārium: see above.] Obs.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 132 Thare is ane othir maner of possessiounis, that ar callit precaris, that cummys for request, or lordis gevin for thair tyme, or thair will endurand. c1575Balfour's Practicks (1754) 458 Ane tenent beand warnit be his master at Whitsounday to flit and remove, thairefter..sufferit be tolerance and precarie of his master to sit still and remane to ane certane day.
†2. See quot. [Cf. med.L. precaria, precatoria (Du Cange); F. précaire (Littré).] Obs.
1694tr. Moreri's Hist. etc. Dict., Precary [F. précaire] is a word well known in the French civil and cannon Law. Paolo saith, That the Contract called the Precary brought great Riches to the Churches... [It] consisted in a Donation that particular persons made of their Goods to the Churches. They afterwards obtained of the same Churches, by Letters which they called precarious or precatorious Letters, the same Estates again, to enjoy them by a kind of Emphyteotick Security, i.e. to improve them.
3. Feudal Law. = med.L. precāria. See quots.
[1670Blount Law Dict., Precariæ, Days Works, which the Tenants of some Mannors are bound to give the Lord in Harvest,..corruptly called Bind days, for Biden days. 1883Seebohm Village Commun. 41 There are precariæ, or ‘boon-days’, sometimes called bene works—special or extra services which the lord has a right to require, sometimes the lord providing food for the day, and sometimes the tenant providing for himself.] 1906N. J. Hone Manor & Manor. Rec. 226 A precary without dinner with three men.
▪ II. † ˈprecary, a. Obs. rare.
[ad. L. precāri-us.]
= precarious.
1631R. Byfield Doctr. Sabb. 143 Holiness hath no other but a precary time, when we will borrow it of our worke. |