单词 | muniment house |
释义 | > as lemmasmuniment house muniment house n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal document > types of legal or official document > [noun] > preserved as evidence of a fact > place for keeping muniment house1656 muniment room1661 muniment chest1870 1656 T. Blount Glossographia A Muniment house (in Cathedral, or Collegiate Churches, Castles, Colledges or such like) is a house or little room of strength, purposely made for keeping the Seal, Plate, Evidences, Charters, &c. of such Church, Colledge, &c., such Evidences being called in Law Muniments. 1778 T. Warton Let. 22 Sept. in Poet. Wks. (1802) I. Introd. p. lxxvi I have borrowed from the muniment house of this college a most curious roll of W. Wykeham's house-keeping expences for the year 1394. 1884 Atlantic Monthly July 43/1 It is a huge muniment house for the secret history of Spain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. < as lemmas |
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