单词 | legem pone |
释义 | † legem ponen. Obsolete. Payment of money; cash down.From the first two words (forming the heading) of the fifth division of Psalm 119, which begins the psalms at Matins on the 25th day of the month; consequently associated with March 25, a quarter day in the old financial calendar, when payments and debts came due. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > cash-payment legem pone?1520 numeration1563 cash down1800 cash-payment1803 ?1520 Hendred's Pylgrymage of Man Kynd xxi. l. 11 A noble Shyryffe and a myghty That is callyd bothe fere and nere Master legem pone. 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 6v Use Legem pone to pay at thy day, Oremus (to beare with thee) vse not (I say). 1592 G. Harvey New Let. in Wks. (1884) I. 18 Without Legem pone, wordes are winde and without actuall performance, all nothing. 1594 R. Barnfield Shepheard Content xxxix. sig. Eiiij If legem pone comes, he is receau'd, When Vix haud habeo is of hope bereau'd. 1618 G. Mynshul Ess. Prison 26 All their speech is legem pone, or else with their ill custome they will detaine thee. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. xii. 48 They were all at our service for the Legem pone [Fr. ilz estoyent touts en notre commandement en payant]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.?1520 |
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