α. Middle English anbettyment.
β. Middle English–1600s abettement, 1500s abbetment, 1500s– abetment, 1600s abettment.
单词 | abetment |
释义 | abetmentn.α. Middle English anbettyment. β. Middle English–1600s abettement, 1500s abbetment, 1500s– abetment, 1600s abettment. 1. a. Chiefly Law. The action or fact of encouraging, instigating, or assisting in a crime or other misdeed. ΚΠ a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xxxi. 92 Þat I sal soþ segge a[n] noȝt withhelie..ne for loue, ne for hate, ne for abbettement, ne for procurement. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 2364 Þanne schal heo beo for-brent For hure couyne to-ward þat route & hure anbettyment. 1441 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1835) V. 174 (MED) Neithre by way of feet, abettement, procuring, nor otherwise. 1469 W. Writtle in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 578 Withoute your grete abettement he neiþer will doo nor assent to non such thyng. 1538 A. Fitzherbert Newe Bk. Justyces Peas 136 b Found gyltie of any abbetment, counsaylynge, helpinge or maynteyninge of or to any suche felonies. 1564 Act 5 Eliz. c. i. f. 5 Charitable geuyng of reasonable almes to any of the offendour or offendours aboue specified..shall not be taken or interpreted to be..abetment. 1656 W. Smith Safe Way to Glory 56 If a man by himself, or any other, through his abetment, consent, or connivence, have injured anothers honour, [etc.]. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 36 The very advice and abetment amount to principal treason. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 142 The recusancy of Cuddie Headrigg the ploughman, and the..abetment which he had received from his mother. 1878 Daily News 26 Sept. 6/1 When I say fomented, I mean that the abetment is of an indirect character, passive rather than active. 1920 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 50 45 If the man died.., whoever had speared the leopard would of course be tried, and no doubt hanged, for murder, and the elders committed for abetment of the same. 1996 India Today 30 June 149/1 The fear that the abetment of suicide may go completely unpunished. b. Encouragement, instigation; assistance, aid, support. Also: an instance of any of these. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [noun] fultumeOE help971 succour?c1225 abetc1330 succouringc1330 speedc1340 subsidya1387 rescousc1390 chevisancea1400 juvamentc1400 supply1420 aid1430 favour1434 supplying1436 suffrage1445 availa1450 boteningc1450 succurrancec1450 adjuvancea1460 assistance1495 meeda1500 subventiona1500 suppliancea1500 adjutory?a1513 sistancea1513 adminiculation1531 abetment1533 assisting1553 adjument1576 society1586 aidance1593 opitulation1598 secourse1598 second1605 suppeditation1605 assistency1642 auxiliation1657 adjutancy1665 adjuvancy1677 abettal1834 sustenance1839 constructiveness1882 the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation puttingOE sleatinga1122 eggingc1200 pricking?c1225 enticement1303 movinga1382 eggmentc1386 stirring1399 instinct1412 instigationc1422 motiona1425 provocationa1425 coyingc1440 ertingc1440 tollingc1440 artation1441 incitation1477 instinction1490 inhortationc1503 stimulation1526 abetment1533 onsetting1541 provokement?1545 incitament1579 stirring?c1580 irritation1589 incitement1594 spurring1611 to give foment to1613 fomenting1615 prompturea1616 proritation1615 urgea1618 exstimulation1626 fomentation1633 instinctment1661 spurning1672 impulsing1885 1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance ii. xix. f. cxxxiiii He neither seeth nor assygneth so much as any assembly about theym, or promyse or abettement to procure and pursue theym. 1655 J. Sergeant Schism Dis-arm'd 313 They observ'd not Easter right, yet never so much as cited the Eastern Churches, in abetment of their practise. a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 279 Never hardly any eminent Person appeared with a pretence of coming from God..without God's visible interposal and abetment. 1695 R. South Tritheism sig. A2v I doubt not of your learned Concurrence with me, and Abettment of me in this Affirmation. 1705 M. Sylvester Christian Hope 69 Christ's abetment of his Cause and Carriage. 1747 Scots Mag. Dec. 575/2 I acted pretty near the like part in my abetment of the court-scheme for an excise on wine and tobacco. 1817 Ld. Byron Let. 7 Aug. (1831) II. 95 Your letter of the 18th, and, what will please you, as it did me, the parcel sent by the good-natured aid and abetment of Mr. Croker, are arrived. 1859 H. B. Stowe Minister's Wooing xii. 203 Mrs. Scudder's neat room whipped into a perfect froth and foam of gauze, lace, artificial flowers, linings, and other aids, accessories, and abetments. 1925 Science 20 Nov. 459/1 The small museums of America do need counsel and help, and with just these abetments from the national body, they may ultimately attain to much importance. 1978 Public Historian 1 43 The abetment and coordination of courses of study is a subsidiary function. 1992 N. L. Rhoades Croquet 145 Clipping about the come-back of croquet under the abetment of Jack Osborn. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] swikec893 swikedomc893 dwalec950 braida1000 falsec1000 flerdc1000 swikelnessa1023 fakenOE chuffingc1175 fikenungc1175 bipechingc1200 treachery?c1225 falseshipc1230 guilec1230 telingc1230 swikeheada1250 craftc1275 felony1297 wrench1297 deceitc1300 gabc1300 guiling13.. guilery1303 quaintisec1325 wrenk1338 beswiking1340 falsehood1340 abetc1350 wissing1357 wilec1374 faitery1377 faiting1377 tregetryc1380 fallacec1384 trainc1390 coverture1393 facrere1393 ficklenessc1397 falsagea1400 tregeta1400 abusionc1405 blearingc1405 deceptionc1430 mean?c1430 tricotc1430 obreption1465 fallacy1481 japery1496 gauderya1529 fallax1530 conveyance1531 legerdemain1532 dole1538 trompe1547 joukery1562 convoyance1578 forgery1582 abetment1586 outreaching1587 chicanery1589 falsery1594 falsity1603 fubbery1604 renaldry1612 supercherie1621 circumduction1623 fobbinga1627 dice-play1633 beguile1637 fallaxitya1641 ingannation1646 hocus1652 renardism1661 dodgerya1670 knapping1671 trap1681 joukery-pawkery1686 jugglery1699 take-in1772 tripotage1779 trickery1801 ruse1807 dupery1816 nailing1819 pawkery1820 hanky-panky1841 hokey-pokey1847 suck-in1856 phenakisma1863 skulduggery1867 sharp practice1869 dodginess1871 jiggery-pokery1893 flim-flammery1898 runaround1915 hanky1924 to give the go-around1925 Scandiknavery1927 the twist1933 hype1955 mamaguy1971 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 330 Such men which by fraude or abetment shall go about to stop or rather to preuent the ordinance of lawes. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > bet wager1548 bet1591 abetment1614 gamble1883 punt1965 1614 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. II. O.T. viii. 442 As some skilfull player loses on purpose..to draw on the more abetments. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1325 |
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