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† quinzièmen.Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French quinzeme, quinzime. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman quinzeme, quinzieme, quinzisme, quinszime, quinsim, etc., and Anglo-Norman and Old French quinzime, Middle French quinzieme (French quinzième ) fifteenth of a set, (especially) fifteenth day (e.g. of the month), fifteenth part (1188), in Anglo-Norman also tax or duty of a fifteenth (mid 14th cent.), fifteenth day after a church festival (a1394 or earlier), fortnight (a1399 or earlier), uses as noun of quinzime fifteenth (1119; French quinzième ) < quinze fifteen (see quinze n.) + -ième suffix used to form ordinal numerals (see quatorzeim n.).In specific use in sense 1 apparently not recorded in dictionaries of French. With sense 2 compare Old Occitan quinsen , and also post-classical Latin quindecima , quindena , quinta decima (from 13th cent. in British sources). Compare fifteenth n. 1, quinzine n. 1. With sense 3a compare quinzaine n. With sense 3b compare quinzine n. 2, quindene n., quindecim n. N.E.D. (1902) gives the pronunciation as (F. kæṅzyęm) French /kɛ̃zjɛm/. Obsolete. society > faith > worship > church music > psalm > kinds of psalm > 120 to 134 > [noun] a1325 St. Oswald (Corpus Cambr.) 214 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill (1956) 78 (MED) As he dude ech day, is sauter he sede..And sede þe qwinsames to herie Godes sone. society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [noun] > one-fifteenth c1400 (Rawl. B. 171) 174 (MED) Of þe quinzime of godes þat were granted for þe new charters. 1418 in J. H. Fisher et al. (1984) 96 We wol þat..ye doo ordeine and see þat þai be discharged of þe saide dymes and quinzimes after þeffect of oure saide lettres patentes. a1475 J. Fortescue (Laud) (1885) 140 (MED) The reaume gaff to thair kyng a quinsime and a desime quinqueniale. 1480 W. Caxton clviii. 140 A quinzeme of goodes were graunted for the newe chartres. 1559 in J. Strype (1824) I. ii. App. viii. 427 The clergie chardged with quinsiems and other payements. 1583 ii. xiv. 58 Incident acquisitions be they rentes, customes, tenthes, quinziesmes, taxes, subsidies. 1714 J. Fortescue-Aland in J. Fortescue 93 (note) Quinsime..was a Tax granted by Parliament in the 18th Year of Edward I. which was a fifteenth Part of all moveable Goods. 1762 (ed. 2) I. 83 A Fifteenth, or Quinzieme, is a Tax of Money laid upon the Counties, Cities, Boroughs, or other Towns, throughout the Realm. 1778 Characters 41 The clergy had compounded for a tax called the quinzieme or fifteenth penny. 1885 IV. 146/1 In 1223 he was appointed receiver of the rents of the see of Coventry, and in 1225 auditor of the accounts of the justices to whom the collection of the quinzime was assigned. 1891 Oct. 111 It paid the highest quinzième of any port except London. 3. the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > period of days in specific calendars society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] > fifteen days beginning on c1400 (Rawl. B. 171) 59 (MED) Þo ij breþerne of Constance..shul comen bifore a Quinzime passede wiþ a grete power. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville (Cambr.) (1869) 146 (MED) I selle it [sc. time] bi dayes and bi wookes, bi vtases and bi quinzimes, bi monethes and bi yeeres al hol. a1500 (?c1450) 57 (MED) The quynsyme [Fr. le quinzime ior] after that, Merlyn come to courte. society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] > fifteen days beginning on > last day of ?a1424 in C. L. Kingsford (1919) I. 35 (MED) Þe processe is at distresse now retournable at þe oeptes or þe quinzisme, I not qwether. 1433 IV. 420/2 Bytwix this and the Quinszisme of Seint Michell next. 1480 W. Caxton ccxxvi. 232 At his parlement holden at Westmynstre the quynzeme of Paske. a1500 (?c1450) 374 This was the quynsyme after Pentecoste. 1656 W. Dugdale 611 Roger..had his accompt..respited till the Quinzieme of Easter following. 1777 R. Henry III. iii. 542 Writs were issued..commanding all the moneyours, essayers, and keepers of the dyes..to appear before them at Westminster, in the quinzieme of St Denys. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1325 |