annuityn.

Brit.

/əˈnjuːᵻti/, U.S.

/əˈn(j)uədi/

Forms:

α. Middle English annuitee, Middle English annuyte, Middle English annuytee, Middle English annywyte, Middle English–1500s annewete, Middle English–1500s annewite, Middle English–1500s annuite, Middle English–1500s annytie, Middle English–1500s anuyte, Middle English–1600s annuitie, 1500s aneuite, 1500s annuatey, 1500s annuytie, 1500s anuetie, 1500s anuitie, 1500s anuytie, 1500s– annuity, 1600s anwetie, 1700s a newaty.

β. 1500s newytie, 1500s nulyty (probably transmission error).

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French annuité.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman annuité, annuyté, annueté, annuetee, annuitié (compare Middle French, French annuité (1607) payment made every year (c1300 or earlier)) < post-classical Latin annuitat- , annuitas annual payment (from c1400 in British sources) < classical Latin annuus annual ( < annus year (see annals n.) + -uus , suffix forming adjectives) + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix).The β. forms are aphetic, probably arising from analysis of the initial vowel of the α. forms as the indefinite article (see a adj.).

a. Law. The grant of an annual sum of money from a person's land or estate for the lifetime of the beneficiary, in perpetuity, or for some other specified period.An annuity charged on land was usually known specifically as a rentcharge (see rentcharge n. 1).

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > allowance > annual > chargeable on grantor's person

annuity1425

1425 in L. Morsbach Mittelengl. Originalurkunden (1923) 12 (MED) Þe forsayd Emayne entered in þe forsayd land and place with all here portenaunce, and vtterly pyt out jon Eleyne and all hyss for nowne-payment of þe annuite abovesayd.

1426 in Collectanea Topographica & Genealogica (1837) IV. 250 (MED) John and Anne shall noght..be vexed..by any seurte or charge made by þe seide lorde..þat is to say, by statut merchaunt, statut of þe staple, reconisaunce, rente charge, annuitees, oþer dette or damages.

1439 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 122 That she claime no..tenementes nor annuities wich he hath graunted to eny of his seruauntez.

1559 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 131 Boitht with hys newytie and his chylds portion.

a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) i. ii. 59 Lands..not encombred, no annuity Or statute lying on 'em.

1774 T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 151 Grants, fermholds, annuities, corridies.

1853 Rep. Supreme Courts Scotl. 25 336/1 Do you mean to say, that a grant of an annuity by which a man binds himself and his heirs for ever to pay £10, is not a good and valid grant?

1909 Law Rep. Chancery Div. 1 276 A testator bequeathed an annuity to his sister for life to commence from his decease and to be paid by equal quarterly payments, and directed his executors to provide for the annuity by purchasing a Government annuity.

1972 Act Eliz. II c. 61 §17 ‘Annuity’ means a rentcharge or an annuity for a life or lives or for any term of years or greater estate determinable on a life or on lives.

2008 D. Slattery-Christy In Search of Ruritania ii. 29 Marsh had become eligible to receive an annuity granted to his family, on his mother's side, after the assassination of one of his ancestors at the Houses of Parliament.

b. A yearly allowance or income; a grant paid in annual instalments.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > allowance > annual

annual1388

annuity?c1425

?c1425 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Royal 17 D.vi) (1860) 30 Hathe to me grauntede an annuitee Of twenty mark, while that I have lives space.

1533 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 356 A certeyn Annuytie of xxvi s. viii d. toward the Sustentacion of his lyvyng for terme of his Naturall life.

1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. ix. sig. C4^v If his Annuity stretch so farre he is sent to the Vniuersity.

1763 H. Walpole Lett. (1891) IV. 154 Not paying Lord Clive the three thousand pounds, which the Ministry had promised him in lieu of his Nabobical annuity.

1890 Dict. National Biogr. XXIII. 371/1 In 1824, on his resignation of the registrarship, the university granted him an annuity of 200l. per annum.

1910 G. M. Priest Brief Hist. German Lit. xvii. 225 Count Schimmelmann and Duke Christian of Holstein-Augustenburg..gave him an annuity of some seven hundred dollars for three years.

2003 J. Wintle Hist. Islam: Rough Guide 47 He [sc. Umar] establishes a register of stipends called the diwan.., each warrior receiving an annuity.

c. Finance. A form of investment entitling the investor to receive a series of annual payments until his or her death.See also deferred annuity, purchased life annuity n., terminable annuity n., etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > investment > annuity

annuity1603

1603 G. de Malynes Englands View 174 Gentlemen and others that would purchase an annuitie during their life.

1704 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 24 1700 Arithmetick..with its application to Anatocism, Compound Interest, and Annuities.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 387 The bank of England..pays the greater part of the annuities which are due to the creditors of the publick.

1882 A. Wilson Nat. Budget 35 This annuity [sc. consolidated 3 per cent. stock] was first created in 1751 to consolidate a variety of petty annuities; hence its name.

1922 Q. Jrnl. Econ. Feb. 215 Two portions, one of which represents return of principal, while the other is at all times 6 per cent of the remaining value of the annuity.

2015 Saga Mag. Apr. 121/3 You do not have to cash in a pension or convert it into an annuity. You can put it into a drawdown plan instead.

2. figurative and in figurative contexts. Something likened to an annuity in being received regularly.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > receiving > [noun] > that which is received

receipt1534

annuity1600

1600 T. Floyd Picture of Perfit Common Wealth xxxii. 221 Liberality..is saied to be the encrease and yerely fruits or annuities, of those blessings which God hath bestowed vpon vs, for the relieuing of the distressed.

1636 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. lxx. 182 I think the very annuity and casualties of the Cross of Christ..better than the world's set-rent.

1733 H. Fielding Miser (London ed.) ii. iii. 21 How cou'd you throw away all this Jest at once; it wou'd have furnish'd a prudent Person with an Annuity of Laughter for Life.

1806 T. Sheldrake Pract. Ess. Distortion Legs & Feet Children 84 They..entail upon the sufferer an annuity of pain for life.

1875 D. Cook Banns of Marriage I. 144 I can only hope..that it [sc. marriage] will return you a handsome annuity of happiness.

2009 P. Herr Primal Managem. v. 142 Employees will work very hard to maintain this annuity of good feelings once they have tasted it.

3. In the United States: a yearly supply of goods, provisions, or money issued by the government to a North American Indian tribe under the terms of a treaty. Now historical.

ΚΠ

1797 B. Hawkins Let. 1 Mar. (1916) 91 I shall not give drafts for the Creek annuity until I have a meeting of the chiefs.

1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xxvii. 586 They now receive regular annuities of Government goods.

2014 J. Riding In in S. Shown Harjo Nation to Nation 156 A treaty commissioner promised that his government would supply the Pawnee with trade goods (an annuity) each year for twelve years.

Compounds

C1. General use as a modifier (chiefly in sense 1c), as in annuity payment, annuity rate, etc.

ΚΠ

a1683 J. Collins Doctr. Decimal Arithmetick (1685) 88 This is the hardest of Annuity Problems, and not to be resolved with Logarithms without Position or Trials.

1709 London Gaz. No. 4576/3 Lost five Annuity Orders..for 100l. per Annum.

1856 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 19 331 At the age of 75, the annuity rate attained its maximum.

1908 Bull. Internat Labour Office 3 235 Thereupon the annuity contract shall be cancelled.

2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Money section) 22/8 Policyholders would be asked to renounce rights to their guaranteed annuity rates in return for a cash injection to their pension funds.

C2. As a modifier designating goods, provisions, or money issued by the government to a North American Indian tribe under the terms of a treaty (see sense 3). Now historical.

ΚΠ

1808 R. J. Meigs Let. 8 May in Panoplist (1809) Apr. 352/2 At the time of distributing the annuity goods to the Cherokees,..it was expected that a great number of people would be collected.

1810 Amer. Republic (Frankfort, Kentucky) 17 Aug. 1/5 About this time too, a boat which had been sent up the Wabash with the annuity salt for the Indians returned.

1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xxv. 530 The annuity goods and provisions of that year were soon exhausted.

1959 Ethnohistory 6 95 Continued delays and failures on the part of the government to supply the promised annuity goods forced them [sc. the Bannocks] to continue their nomadic hunts to obtain enough food for subsistence.

2004 J. M. Marshall III Journey of Crazy Horse v. 36 Some of the Lakota who had grown to depend on the annuity cattle for meat instead of hunting were becoming nervous.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

单词	annuity
释义	annuityn. Brit. /əˈnjuːᵻti/, U.S. /əˈn(j)uədi/ Forms: α. Middle English annuitee, Middle English annuyte, Middle English annuytee, Middle English annywyte, Middle English–1500s annewete, Middle English–1500s annewite, Middle English–1500s annuite, Middle English–1500s annytie, Middle English–1500s anuyte, Middle English–1600s annuitie, 1500s aneuite, 1500s annuatey, 1500s annuytie, 1500s anuetie, 1500s anuitie, 1500s anuytie, 1500s– annuity, 1600s anwetie, 1700s a newaty. β. 1500s newytie, 1500s nulyty (probably transmission error). Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French annuité. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman annuité, annuyté, annueté, annuetee, annuitié (compare Middle French, French annuité (1607) payment made every year (c1300 or earlier)) < post-classical Latin annuitat- , annuitas annual payment (from c1400 in British sources) < classical Latin annuus annual ( < annus year (see annals n.) + -uus , suffix forming adjectives) + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix).The β. forms are aphetic, probably arising from analysis of the initial vowel of the α. forms as the indefinite article (see a adj.). 1. a. Law. The grant of an annual sum of money from a person's land or estate for the lifetime of the beneficiary, in perpetuity, or for some other specified period.An annuity charged on land was usually known specifically as a rentcharge (see rentcharge n. 1). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > allowance > annual > chargeable on grantor's person annuity1425 1425 in L. Morsbach Mittelengl. Originalurkunden (1923) 12 (MED) Þe forsayd Emayne entered in þe forsayd land and place with all here portenaunce, and vtterly pyt out jon Eleyne and all hyss for nowne-payment of þe annuite abovesayd. 1426 in Collectanea Topographica & Genealogica (1837) IV. 250 (MED) John and Anne shall noght..be vexed..by any seurte or charge made by þe seide lorde..þat is to say, by statut merchaunt, statut of þe staple, reconisaunce, rente charge, annuitees, oþer dette or damages. 1439 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 122 That she claime no..tenementes nor annuities wich he hath graunted to eny of his seruauntez. 1559 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 131 Boitht with hys newytie and his chylds portion. a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) i. ii. 59 Lands..not encombred, no annuity Or statute lying on 'em. 1774 T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 151 Grants, fermholds, annuities, corridies. 1853 Rep. Supreme Courts Scotl. 25 336/1 Do you mean to say, that a grant of an annuity by which a man binds himself and his heirs for ever to pay £10, is not a good and valid grant? 1909 Law Rep. Chancery Div. 1 276 A testator bequeathed an annuity to his sister for life to commence from his decease and to be paid by equal quarterly payments, and directed his executors to provide for the annuity by purchasing a Government annuity. 1972 Act Eliz. II c. 61 §17 ‘Annuity’ means a rentcharge or an annuity for a life or lives or for any term of years or greater estate determinable on a life or on lives. 2008 D. Slattery-Christy In Search of Ruritania ii. 29 Marsh had become eligible to receive an annuity granted to his family, on his mother's side, after the assassination of one of his ancestors at the Houses of Parliament. b. A yearly allowance or income; a grant paid in annual instalments. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > allowance > annual annual1388 annuity?c1425 ?c1425 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Royal 17 D.vi) (1860) 30 Hathe to me grauntede an annuitee Of twenty mark, while that I have lives space. 1533 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 356 A certeyn Annuytie of xxvi s. viii d. toward the Sustentacion of his lyvyng for terme of his Naturall life. 1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. ix. sig. C4^v If his Annuity stretch so farre he is sent to the Vniuersity. 1763 H. Walpole Lett. (1891) IV. 154 Not paying Lord Clive the three thousand pounds, which the Ministry had promised him in lieu of his Nabobical annuity. 1890 Dict. National Biogr. XXIII. 371/1 In 1824, on his resignation of the registrarship, the university granted him an annuity of 200l. per annum. 1910 G. M. Priest Brief Hist. German Lit. xvii. 225 Count Schimmelmann and Duke Christian of Holstein-Augustenburg..gave him an annuity of some seven hundred dollars for three years. 2003 J. Wintle Hist. Islam: Rough Guide 47 He [sc. Umar] establishes a register of stipends called the diwan.., each warrior receiving an annuity. c. Finance. A form of investment entitling the investor to receive a series of annual payments until his or her death.See also deferred annuity, purchased life annuity n., terminable annuity n., etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > investment > annuity annuity1603 1603 G. de Malynes Englands View 174 Gentlemen and others that would purchase an annuitie during their life. 1704 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 24 1700 Arithmetick..with its application to Anatocism, Compound Interest, and Annuities. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 387 The bank of England..pays the greater part of the annuities which are due to the creditors of the publick. View more context for this quotation 1882 A. Wilson Nat. Budget 35 This annuity [sc. consolidated 3 per cent. stock] was first created in 1751 to consolidate a variety of petty annuities; hence its name. 1922 Q. Jrnl. Econ. Feb. 215 Two portions, one of which represents return of principal, while the other is at all times 6 per cent of the remaining value of the annuity. 2015 Saga Mag. Apr. 121/3 You do not have to cash in a pension or convert it into an annuity. You can put it into a drawdown plan instead. 2. figurative and in figurative contexts. Something likened to an annuity in being received regularly. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > receiving > [noun] > that which is received receipt1534 annuity1600 1600 T. Floyd Picture of Perfit Common Wealth xxxii. 221 Liberality..is saied to be the encrease and yerely fruits or annuities, of those blessings which God hath bestowed vpon vs, for the relieuing of the distressed. 1636 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. lxx. 182 I think the very annuity and casualties of the Cross of Christ..better than the world's set-rent. 1733 H. Fielding Miser (London ed.) ii. iii. 21 How cou'd you throw away all this Jest at once; it wou'd have furnish'd a prudent Person with an Annuity of Laughter for Life. 1806 T. Sheldrake Pract. Ess. Distortion Legs & Feet Children 84 They..entail upon the sufferer an annuity of pain for life. 1875 D. Cook Banns of Marriage I. 144 I can only hope..that it [sc. marriage] will return you a handsome annuity of happiness. 2009 P. Herr Primal Managem. v. 142 Employees will work very hard to maintain this annuity of good feelings once they have tasted it. 3. In the United States: a yearly supply of goods, provisions, or money issued by the government to a North American Indian tribe under the terms of a treaty. Now historical. ΚΠ 1797 B. Hawkins Let. 1 Mar. (1916) 91 I shall not give drafts for the Creek annuity until I have a meeting of the chiefs. 1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xxvii. 586 They now receive regular annuities of Government goods. 2014 J. Riding In in S. Shown Harjo Nation to Nation 156 A treaty commissioner promised that his government would supply the Pawnee with trade goods (an annuity) each year for twelve years. Compounds C1. General use as a modifier (chiefly in sense 1c), as in annuity payment, annuity rate, etc. ΚΠ a1683 J. Collins Doctr. Decimal Arithmetick (1685) 88 This is the hardest of Annuity Problems, and not to be resolved with Logarithms without Position or Trials. 1709 London Gaz. No. 4576/3 Lost five Annuity Orders..for 100l. per Annum. 1856 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 19 331 At the age of 75, the annuity rate attained its maximum. 1908 Bull. Internat Labour Office 3 235 Thereupon the annuity contract shall be cancelled. 2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Money section) 22/8 Policyholders would be asked to renounce rights to their guaranteed annuity rates in return for a cash injection to their pension funds. C2. As a modifier designating goods, provisions, or money issued by the government to a North American Indian tribe under the terms of a treaty (see sense 3). Now historical. ΚΠ 1808 R. J. Meigs Let. 8 May in Panoplist (1809) Apr. 352/2 At the time of distributing the annuity goods to the Cherokees,..it was expected that a great number of people would be collected. 1810 Amer. Republic (Frankfort, Kentucky) 17 Aug. 1/5 About this time too, a boat which had been sent up the Wabash with the annuity salt for the Indians returned. 1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xxv. 530 The annuity goods and provisions of that year were soon exhausted. 1959 Ethnohistory 6 95 Continued delays and failures on the part of the government to supply the promised annuity goods forced them [sc. the Bannocks] to continue their nomadic hunts to obtain enough food for subsistence. 2004 J. M. Marshall III Journey of Crazy Horse v. 36 Some of the Lakota who had grown to depend on the annuity cattle for meat instead of hunting were becoming nervous. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1425
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