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roomth Now dial.|ruːmθ|
Also 6 rumeth, 6–7 rometh(e, roometh; 6 romth(e, rompth; 7 roumth, roomthe.
[f. room a. + -th1: cf. Færöese rúmd. The earlier form is rimth.]
1. Space; esp. ample or unconfined space. † to make roomth, to make way.
1540Bible (Cranmer) 2 Sam. xxii. 20 For he brought me out into roumth, he delyuered me, because he had a loue vnto me. 1559J. Aylmer Harborowe E iv b, All histories and monumentes canne not be conteined in so lyttle rometh. 1575Gammer Gurton ii. iv, Make here a little romth. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. vi. 122 But Rydoll,..Not finding fitting roomth upon the rising side, Alone unto the West directly takes her way. 1643Trapp Comm. Gen. xliii. 25 A mans gift makes roomth for him. 1881–in dial. glossaries (Leic., Warw., Sheff).
†b. Space occupied by an object; extent, bulk.
1603Drayton Bar. Wars vi. xxviii, Whose romth but hinders others that would grow. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 40 Pease grinded weigh more than corne, the roundnesse giveth cause to have more roomth. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 54 Having seen what the Worlds lastingness and roomth is.
†c. Extent; jurisdiction. Obs.—1
1601Bp. W. Barlow Defence 188 Lastly, that the Church haue roometh vniuersally extended.
†2. Sufficient space or scope for or to do something. Obs.
a1540Barnes Wks. (1573) 298 The false brethren..unto whom S. Paule gaue no romthe as concernyng to bee brought into subiection. 1596Drayton Legends iv. 209 Where now my Spirit got roomth it selfe to show. 1615W. Lawson Country Housew. Garden (1626) 10 So there be sufficient roomth left for walkes. 1639H. Ainsworth Pentateuch Gen. ix. 27 ‘Inlarging’ also, is not only of roomth to dwell in.., but oftentimes of the heart.
†b. A sufficient occupation. Obs.—1
1585Dyer Prayse of Nothing C ij, It were a romth for some idle bodye, to looke into the accedents of euery state, which hath been diuersly afflicted for nothing.
†3. A defined or limited space. Obs.
1550Nottingham Rec. IV. 98 In the est end of the Spyces Chamber a romthe for a p[r]esse. 1579Twyne Phis. agst. Fortune i. 6 b, This narrowe roomth, and place of necessitie, is knowne without Astrologicall coniecture. 1596–7S. Finche in Hist. Croydon (1783) 155 We..are now fillinge the voyde rometh therin with earth and rubbishe. 1639H. Ainsworth Pentateuch Num. ii. 27 So many thousand tents as Israel had could not be pitched in a little roomth.
†b. A chamber, apartment. Obs.
1579Fenton Guicciard. 415 A fire kindled..in their stoare house called the Arzenale, euen in the rometh where was their saltpeter. 1635Maldon Doc. (Bundle 80, No. 2), vis. viiid. for dressing up the said moote-hall, counsell chamber, and other the Romethes there this yere.
†4. An office, function, or dignity. Obs.
1504Lady Margaret tr. De Imit. iv. v. 267 By the puttynge to of the handes of the Bysshoppe thou arte admyttyd vnto that hye rometh. a1530in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. II. 153 Very gladde I wolbe that he in that romethe myght doo your most excelent Grace service. 1586in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 439 The credytt, vocacion, rompth, promocion and callinge of Bayliefes. a1604Hanmer Chron. Irel. (1633) 57 He preferred one Iohn his Deacon and disciple, to the roomth.
†b. A position or office pertaining to a person; one's place. Obs.
1544A. Cope Hannibal & Scipio 40 They commanded to let the old Senatours go free, and use their romthes. 1573Twyne Virgil Life {fatpara}j b, When his voice failed him at eny time, Mecænas supplied his romth in readynge. 1600S. Finche in Hist. Croydon (1783) 154 b, Margaret her daughter is in good hope to supplie her mothers romthe.
†c. in the roomth of, in the place of, instead of. Also with possessives. Obs.
1533Wriothesley Chron. (Camden) I. 21 The Lorde William Howarde as deputie..in the romth of the Marshall of Englande. 1578J. Stockwood Serm. 24 Aug. 78 It were farre better that they were vtterly remoued, and able Pastors put in theyr roomths. 1615W. Lawson Country Housew. Garden (1626) 6 Our old fathers can tell vs, how woods are decaied, and people in the roomth of trees multiplied. 1624–5Nottingham Rec. (1889) IV. 393 Annother Counceller to be ellected in his roomthe. |