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puisne, a. and n.|ˈpjuːnɪ|
Also 7 pui'nee, pu'nee, puiney, pusney, 7–8 puisny, 8 puisnee: see also puny.
[a. OF. puisne (12–13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), in mod.F. puîné (see puny), f. puis:—L. postea, or Romanic *postius, -um, f. post after + né:—L. nāt-us born.]
A. adj.
1. Born later; younger; junior (in appointment, etc.). Now only in legal use.
[1315Rolls of Parlt. I. 357/1 Monsr. Henri de Cobeham le puisne.] [1579: see puny a. 1.] 1613R. Cawdrey Table Alph. (ed. 3), Puiney, younger borne. a1618Sylvester Elegy on Marg. Wyts 78 Under her Virgin-sway Her puisne Orphan-sisters to defray. 1705in Hearne Collect. 30 Dec. (O.H.S.) I. 152 Being his Puisne Chancellor by 7 years. 1724Lond. Gaz. No. 6307/3 The Poor Knights..began the Procession.., the Puisné going foremost.
b. Applied to an inferior or junior judge in the superior courts of common law: for the present official definition, see quot. 1877.
[a1577,1643, etc.: see puny a. 1.] 1688in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. IV. 136 Mr. Serjeant Stringer..is made puisné judge of the King's Bench. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. iv. 41 The judges of this court are at present four in number, one chief and three puisnè justices. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) IV. v. 55 Sir John, though nearly ninety, still sat as senior puisne judge in the Court of King's Bench. 1877Act 40 & 41 Vict. c. 9 §5 A puisne judge of the High Court of Justice means for the purposes of this Act a judge of the High Court other than the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and the Lord Chief Baron. 1882W. Ballantine Exper. xxx. 296 The puisne judges who have occupied the Bench during the last generation. 1907India List 191 Puisne Judges of a High Court.
2. Later, more recent, of subsequent date. Now only in legal use.
[1628: see puny a. 2.] 1655Fuller Hist. Camb. 63 No mention in this visitation of Gonvil Hall (the Pusnie House in Cambridge), as if so late and little, that the Commissioners did oversee it. a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. 124 There would upon such a Supposition follow an Eternity that had a beginning, an Eternity that was puisne to some other thing or some other Eternal. 1885Sir R. Baggallay in Law Rep. 12 Q.B. Div. 430 As regards the further advance they were incumbrancers puisne to the plaintiffs. 1889Sir A. Kekewich in Law Times LXI. 71/2 Powers of sale are to be found in second and other puisne mortgagees.
†3. Small, insignificant, petty: now spelt puny.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. iv. 46 As a puisny Tilter, yt spurs his horse but on one side. 1635[Glapthorne] Lady Mother iii. ii. in Bullen O. Pl. II. 158 More cunning then to be ore reacht By puisne cosnage. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters III. 281 He..can not be dismayed at the puisnee threats..of the lesser factions. 1782V. Knox Ess. (1819) III. clii. 161 Frighten a puisne race of peers.
B. n.
†1. A junior; an inferior, an underling; a novice; = puny n. Obs.
[1548, etc.: see puny n.] 1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 40 Why thou young puisne art thou yet to learne, A harper from a shilling to discerne? 1601B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv, To prey vpon pu'nees and honest citizens for socks, or buskins. 1616― Epigr. xcvi. To J. Donne, Let pui'nees', porters', players' praise delight. c1640[Shirley] Capt. Underwit ii. i. in Bullen O. Pl. II. 340 Preach to the puisnes of the Inne sobrietie. 1663Flagellum, or O. Cromwell (1672) 29 Wherein Mr. Pym, Hambden, and other Puisnes with Cromwel, mainly busied themselves.
2. spec. A puisne judge: see A. 1 b.
[1608: see puny n. 4 b.] 1810Bentham Packing (1821) 169 In Pratt's time at least, viz. anno 1725, the Puisnes were not in the secret. 1907Cambr. Mod. Hist. Prospectus 87 The Lord Chief Justices, the Chief Baron and five puisnes upheld the plea that no patent for sole printing restrained the rights of the University Press.
Hence ˈpuisneship, the office and function of a puisne judge. Cf. punyship.
1825Bentham Offic. Apt. Maximized, Observ. Peel's Sp. (1830) 53 The thousands a year salaries of the minor and common law Chiefships, and Puisneships, and Masterships. |