remaindern.adj.
/rᵻˈmeɪndə/, U.S. /rəˈmeɪndər/, /riˈmeɪndər/ A. n.† 2. Perhaps: = remanet n. 2a. Obsolete. rare.† 6. A stay in a place. Cf. remain n.2 Obsolete. rare.
1. Law.
a. A property interest that gives an entitlement to possession only when prior interests, granted at the same time, end. Cf. reversion n.1 1b. in remainder: (of property) in which a future interest is granted to a third party.contingent remainder, cross remainders: see the first element.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited > residue of an estate
remainder1394
remnantc1400
residue1411
remainera1450
remainder over1523
remanant1528
particular estate1590
remaindment1629
subtract1641
residuum1663
1394 in Collectanea Topographica & Genealogica (1836) III. 256 (MED) We..reenfeffide the forsaid sir Guy de Briene the fadir in the forsaid Manere..to haue and holde to hym for terme of hys lyf, the remeindre therof to sir William Briene.
1424 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 60 (MED) If she take þe mantel and þe rynge and avowe chastite, than wul I..the remaindre of þe maner of Steneby, with þe appurtenaunces, to Thomas my son.
1471 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 221 (MED) I bequethe to Alianore my doughter in money 10 li..with remainder, in case of her death, to my wyfe.
1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xxxviiii Yf a lease be made to a man for terme of lyfe the remaynder vnto a nother to terme of lyfe the remaynder vnto the thyrde in the tayle the remaynder vnto the fourthe in fee [etc.].
1535 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 125 Item I gyve and bequethe vnto my cosyn John Drury..my best gylte goblet, wt the couer as yt ys, the remaynder ther of to be to my godsone, Robert Drury.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 282 Sir, for a Cardecue [printed Cardceue] he will sell the fee-simple of his saluation, the inheritance of it, and cut th'intaile from all remainders, and a perpetuall succession for it perpetually.
1685 W. Petty Will p. vii I have in Ireland, without the county of Kerry, in lands, remainders, and reversions, about 3100l. per ann.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 164 An estate then in remainder may be defined to be, an estate limited to take effect and be enjoyed after another estate is determined.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 304 Thomas Cary devised to Peter Cary and the heirs male of his body, remainder in the same manner to his other sons.
1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. v. 188 A remainder is created by express words at the same time as the particular estate, and is so limited as to come into enjoyment or possession so soon as the particular estate comes to an end.
1930 T. M. Whitfield Slavery Agitation in Virginia ii. 28 Holders of vested estates in remainder or reversion were next admitted.
1950 Virginia Law Rev. 36 986 The intent of the grantor is best served by giving to the grantee the whole estate for life with a remainder to his children.
1994 Times (Nexis) 25 Mar. The second defendant, the Marquess of Blandford, was his eldest son, heir apparent and the tenant in tail in remainder.
b. remainder over: = sense A. 1a.In quot. 1766: a further remainder.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited > residue of an estate
remainder1394
remnantc1400
residue1411
remainera1450
remainder over1523
remanant1528
particular estate1590
remaindment1629
subtract1641
residuum1663
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xii. p. xix (heading) Another maner for terme of lyfe with dyuers remaynders ouer.
1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. v Yf a man let landes..for terme of yeres, the remayndre ouer to an other for terme of lyfe.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 142 b If a man..will giue lands in taile, the remainder ouer in fee simple without deed [etc.].
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 164 This makes A tenant for years, with remainder to B for life, remainder over to C in fee.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) V. 331 Lands were given to an alien in tail, remainder over to another in fee.
1891 Law Times 91 3/2 Although the deed purported to bar the remainders over, its legal effect was to pass merely a base fee.
1930 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. & Amer. Law Reg. 78 628 The trust will be good..when the grantor creates a trust with the beneficial interest in himself for life, remainder over to another.
1970 Michigan Law Rev. 69 222 A devise by a husband to his wife of a life estate with a remainder over to their children would not qualify.
2005 CCH Financial & Estate Planning Guide (Commerce Clearing House) (ed. 15) viii. 875 An individual who is assisting his or her parents may want to give them an income interest for life with the remainder over to his or her children.
c. In extended use: the right to succeed to a title or position on the death of the original grantee without issue of the prescribed class (usually male descendants in the direct line) or the death of any of that issue without such issue; esp. (more fully special remainder) the right of succession to a peerage expressly assigned to a certain person or line of descent in default of male issue in the direct line.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [noun]
reversiona1325
succession1461
remainder1580
1580 J. Stow Chrons. of Eng. 754 The Crowne was by aucthoritie of Parliamente entailed vnto the Duke of Yorke and his issue male in remainder.
1659 Advts. in P. Heylyn Examen Historicum 75 For want of Such Issue on the Heires males of Sr. Edward Villers..; according unto which remainder, that Honnurable Title is enjoyed by that branch of the house of Villers.
1675 W. Dugdale Baronage Eng. I. 455 His Brothers were then dead without Issue; with remainder of that Title of Lord Craven of Hampsted-Marshall, for lack of Issue Male.., to Sir William Craven of Lenchwike.
1775 Disc. Hereditary Right 33 There is no doubt but, in propriety of speech, her Majesty's title, in remainder after her Sister..may be called an hereditary right.
1796 G. Kearsley Kearsley's Compl. Peerage I. 183 The Barony of Oakley descended to Charles, his brother, pursuant to a special remainder in the patent.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. iii. 132 Henry had exercised the power with which his parliament..had invested him, by settling the succession in remainder upon the house of Suffolk.
1893 Notes & Queries 8th Ser. 4 461/2 In the event of any future Earl of Cromartie becoming Duke of Sutherland, the Cromartie honours should at once pass to the next remainder heir.
1910 Times 5 May 10/1 All that is necessary would be to create So-and-so a peer, with remainder to his Majesty and his heirs.
1957 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 29 33/2 His ennoblement as Baron Hicks of Ilmington..and Viscount Campden,..with special remainder to his son-in-law..entailed at least two advantages.
2005 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 8 Mar. 21 His two daughters have claims to be in remainder to the dukedom of de Bisaccia.
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1454 W. Worcester in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 95 Mastere Pownynges hath day tille the next terme by a remayndre.
3.
a. Usually with plural agreement. The remaining members of a group of people collectively; the rest. †Also in plural.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > the rest > of persons
lavea1000
the other deal1258
remanantc1330
remnanta1375
reliefa1382
residuea1382
remanent1446
remain1483
remaindera1547
a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) iv. sig. Eivv Troy and the remainder of our folke Restore I shold.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus v. iii. 130 Where you behold vs pleading, The poore remainder of Andronicie. View more context for this quotation
1656 P. Heylyn Surv. Estate France 11 Of the Inhabitants..9000 and upwards are of the Reformation,..the remainders are Papists.
1663 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures (new ed.) i. 2 The remainder of us they left at night in the Road.
1737 S. Berington Mem. G. di Lucca 32 We..drove the Remainder headlong off the Deck.
1777 J. Potter Let. 4 Dec. in G. Washington Papers (2002) Revolutionary War Ser. XII. 547 We could find a Conveneant place in Chester County, and Rais huts for the Remainder of our Troops.
1836 P. R. Hamblin United States Criminal Hist. 526 Several of their gang knocked off here; but the captain, Burgess, and the remainder, went away for the West Indies.
1874 Harper's Mag. Jan. 235/2 A large majority of them are active, clever, and quick-witted young gentlemen..and a few of the remainder are unscrupulous, self-conceited Dugald Dalgettys.
1901 Times 30 Dec. 10/2 Whether it be called, with half its devotees, Ping-Pong, or Table Tennis with the remainder, it is a game that evidently has attractions for a great many people.
1927 Davenport (Iowa) Democrat & Leader 16 Nov. 15/5 Four were given a B rating..and the remainder were given A or A-plus grades.
1959 P. O'Brian Unknown Shore xi. 212 In the end, when many of the disputants had gone off fishing, the remainder agreed that new canvas was the only answer.
2002 Independent 7 Aug. 10/2 The remainder of the refugees are Kochi, nomads whose livestock died in the drought.
b. That which remains when a part has been taken away, used, or otherwise dealt with; the rest.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun]
bilevena1325
reliefa1382
residuea1382
remanant?a1400
remanence?a1425
remanent?a1425
remainc1430
remainant1430
rest?1440
remainingc1480
remainer1519
remanet?a1527
remainder1560
resident1581
residuum1636
restancy1667
residual1839
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxxxix The remainder [of the sum] to be restored whan the warre is finished.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 248 Not that I am afraide to dye, but that my offences beeing many, I would repent out the remainder of Nature. View more context for this quotation
1665 R. Boyle Disc. iv. iv, in Occas. Refl. sig. F1v He gave away more, out of the Remainder of his Estate, than every liberal Man would have done out of the Whole.
1690–1700 Order of Hospitalls sig. Gviii You shall also kepe the Wardrobe-booke, wherein shalbe written..the remainder of all things at euery Michaelmass.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. i. 8 I took out my small Provisions, and after having refreshed myself, I secured the remainder in a Cave.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxi. 233 He should be permitted to pass the remainder of his life in..exile.
1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. iii. 94 Was it not..expected from them, that they should fill up the remainder of the sufferings appointed by their Master?
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 25 I will reserve the analysis of the remainder for another occasion.
1906 H. M. Raymond Cycl. Mod. Shop Pract. II. 492 The worst of the sand is rapped off by light hammering, the remainder scraped off with old files.
1977 Arab Times 13 Dec. 9/1 N.C.C. started the first inning..with two runs but then were held scoreless throughout the remainder of the game.
1995 K. Ishiguro Unconsoled xxix. 433 Looking me in the eye, he poured the remainder of the bottle onto the floor.
4.
a. Mathematics. A number left over after subtraction or division; spec. the number which is left over in a division in which one quantity is not an exact multiple of the other.Other terms that have been used synonymously include remain n.1 1c, remainer n.1 3, and remanent n.1 3.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > division > result of > remainder
remanentc1450
residuec1450
remainer1543
residual1557
remain?a1560
remainder?a1560
rest1608
residue1808
?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) ii. xxiii. sig. P ij v The roote quadrate of the remaynder is the perpendiculare falling from the greatest angle to the greatest side.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises i. v. f. 7 The third number is called the quotient,..and the fourth number is called the remainder, if any be.
1656 T. Hobbes Six Lessons ii. 16 in Elements Philos. The Remainder after Subtraction is the measure of Proportion Arithmeticall.
1697 S. Patrick Comm. Exod. (xxxviii. 25) 708 Three thousand, dividing 301775. will produce an Hundred, and leave 1775 in Remainder.
1798 C. Hutton Course Math. I. 12 To prove Subtraction, add the remainder to the less number.
1824 T. Tegg Chron. Introd. 17 If therefore from any given year of the Christian era 312 be subtracted and the remainder be divided by 15, the year of this cycle will be obtained.
1839 S. Maynard Key to Goodacre's Arith. (ed. 9) 37 When..the remainder is more than the divisor, the quotient figure was too small.
1914 E. Oberg Arithm. Simplified (‘Machinery’ Ref. Bk. No. 137) i. 6 The number obtained when the subtrahend has been taken from the minuend is called the difference or remainder.
2005 L. Holford-Strevens Hist. Time iv. 57 To find the Golden (i.e. important) Number..add 1 to the year, divide by 19, and take the remainder; if this is 0, the Golden Number is 19.
b. The balance of a sum of money; the unpaid portion of a debt. Cf. remain n.1 1b.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > arrears
arrearagesc1315
reragea1325
rest1447
remain1501
decay1546
by-run1573
remainder1597
arrears1648
bygonesa1676
arrearance1731
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 130 My soueraigne liege was in my debt. Vpon remainder of a deare account. View more context for this quotation
1672 in Rothesay Town Council Rec. (1935) I. 238 [28] schilling scots as being the remainder of annatseids bocht and receavit be hir fra him.
1788 T. W. Williams Orig. Precedents in Conveyancing II. 694 He has promised to pay the remainder of Mr. M.'s Bill, which is only ten pounds.
1829 J. Dymond Ess. Princ. Morality I. ii. 194 She executed a will, directing that at her death the creditors should be paid the remainder of their demands.
1852 R. Morris Lights & Shadows Freemasonry 261 Her landlord attaches her clothes for a paltry remainder of four dollars.
1908 Yale Law Jrnl. 17 472 The creditor is morally bound by his promise to give up the remainder of the debt.
2003 D. L. Herman & R. L. Bodiford Fresh Start Bankruptcy iii. 45 If you have a car repossessed, you still essentially owe the remainder of the purchase contract.
5.
a. A single person, or a few people, remaining from a group.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > the rest > of persons > a small remaining number of persons
remnanta1382
remainder1567
rump1649
racemation1650
1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 5v This Charles and laste remainder of the house of Montanino.
?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. D4 Ah Ferdinand, the stay of my old age, And cheefe remainder of our progenie.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 119 That three dayes battell..maintained by a poore remainder of the Mamalucks.
1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. ii. vi. 228 After they had utterly routed all the remainders of Xerxes's numerous Army.
1838 M. F. Tytler Tales of Great & Brave iv. 89 Bruce at last succeeded in retreating, with only a small remainder of his band, into the hills.
1967 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 23 Sept. 23 New York..is dominated by large numbers of artists who swim in one or two schools—lately, the reductivists and the remainders of the Pop people.
2004 P. Katcher Robert E Lee ii. 67 Johnston was given the command of odds and sods, largely from local garrisons and the remainders of the Army of Tennessee.
b. A remaining part or fragment of something. In plural: remains, esp. of ancient buildings (common in 17th cent.).
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > remaining fragment
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end1481
stump1516
fragment1531
stuba1533
remainder?1570
remain1572
fag1582
snub1590
remnant1597
butt1612
heeltap1776
hagsnar1796
tag-end1807
shank1828
nuba1834
nubbin1857
snar1892
?1570 T. Drant Two Serm. ii. sig. Kv Now I haue made but a poore remainder to my selfe to speak of. For what haue I left my selfe to speake of?
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies vi. xiv. 459 The Edifices and Buildings..were many in number..as doth appeare at this day by their ruines and remainders.
1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme i. ii. 3 Seeming ashes may be no ashes, that is no remainders of any Fewel burnt there.
1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant iii. 9 With an Intention, as I said before, of visiting all the remainders of Antiquity in that Place.
1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. II. ii. ii. ii. 241 It will have an acid taste, arising from a remainder of the Acid imperfectly combined with Oil.
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It l. 357 There'll be a double-barreled inquest here..and your remainders will go home in a couple of baskets.
1878 T. Hardy Return of Native III. iv. vii. 69 The remainders, being cut into lengths and split open, were tossed into the pan.
1934 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 24 26 A wood which..is a remainder of the great forests of scrub that in former days covered the whole land.
1990 G. Will Suddenly vi. v. 38 They are remainders of what would have been a twin had the fetal Beaumont not absorbed it in utero.
c. A remaining trace of a quality, feeling, or pattern of behaviour. Now rare.
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the world > space > place > presence > [noun] > continued presence
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tarrying1445
arrestance1477
tarryc1480
remain1488
remaining1496
tarriance1530
stay1538
remainder1585
abidance1607
abide1615
society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun]
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stepa1382
ficchingc1384
marka1400
tracesc1400
scentc1422
footstep?a1425
tidinga1440
relicc1475
smell?a1505
stead1513
vestigy1545
print1548
token1555
remnant1560
show1561
mention1564
signification1576
footing?1580
tract1583
remainder1585
vestige1602
wrack1602
engravement1604
footstepping1610
resent1610
ghost1613
impression1613
remark1624
footprint1625
studdle1635
vestigium1644
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perception1650
vestigiary1651
track1657
symptom1722
signacle1768
ray1773
vestigia1789
footmark1800
souvenir1844
latent1920
1585 T. Wilcox Expos. vppon Bk. Canticles v. 155 Certain remainders of their naturall corruption in them..will sometimes breake foorth in them, to manifest the neglect of their duetye towardes God and men.
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 28 If you have any remainders of modesty or truth cry God mercy.
1668 J. Owen Nature Indwelling-sin (title page) The Remainders of Indwelling-Sin in Believers.
1755 S. Walker Serm. 5 Deliver me from the Remainders of Corruption that dwell in me.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. iii. iv. 580 With..a remainder of disgust in the breasts of some of the Omrahs.
1851 J. B. F. E. de Chatelain Rambles through Rome lxv. 300 People who have the means of living, get their names inscribed, and then, from a remainder of shame, hire substitutes to take their daughters' places in the procession.
2001 S. Sharot Compar. Sociol. World Relig. vi. 137 They are no longer conditioned by illusions, although a remainder of conditioning persists until it disappears with their death.
d. A vestige of a disappearing or obsolete custom or practice; = remain n.1 6a.
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1645 J. Saltmarsh Opening Prynnes New Bk. 3 We experience in part some remainders of Prelacy.
1737 L. Clarke Compl. Hist. Jesus Christ iii. iv. 397/2 Every Christian antiently being wont to bring somewhat to the Corban every Time he came to Church; a Remainder of which Custom we have still, in the Offertory at the Sacrament.
1833 Eclectic Rev. Aug. 166 The exclusive privilege is nothing else..than a surviving remainder of the arbitrary power once claimed..by the British sovereigns.
1905 W. N. Clarke Use Script. in Theol. iii. 108 Visible advent, simultaneous resurrection.., millennial reign of Christ on earth—all is Jewish survival..; it is a remainder from pre-Christian life.
1938 H. Schauss Jewish Festivals xxix. 275 We have to assume that this custom is a remainder of ancient days.
1999 S. Sered Women of Sacred Groves 15 I do wish to point to contemporary nat worship in Myanmar..and women miko in Japan as possible remainders of more extensive women's religious roles.
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1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. I3 v During my remainder ther [i.e. in Rome].
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 123 The first [reason] is that of Aristotle, drawne from..the small time of its remainder in the wombe. View more context for this quotation
7.
a. Publishing. In singular and (esp.) in plural. The unsold copies of an edition of a book for which demand has fallen, often sold at a reduced price; also as a count noun.
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society > communication > book > kind of book > books as sold > [noun] > worst-seller or slow-seller
remainder1757
rum1760
remainder book1858
plug1890
crab1896
worst-seller1903
1757 Monthly Rev. Sept. C. Henderson, Bookseller, under the Royal Exchange, having purchased the remainder of the impression of the following very entertaining book..proposes to sell them for 4s. only.
1791 J. Lackington Memoirs xxx. 224 It was common for such as purchased remainders, to destroy one half or three fourths of such books, and to charge the full publication price.
1854 Gowans' (Nassau St., N.Y.) Catal. No. 13. 6 Remainders of editions by other publishers.
1888 Athenæum 22 Dec. 850/2 His main dealings before this having been in ‘remainders’, and his one solitary publication a failure.
1906 Times 13 Oct. 8/2 That [publishing] house threw a vast ‘remainder’ on the market, reducing our property to about one-fourth of its value!
1963 L. James Fiction for Working Man i. 10 Many of the books auctioned and issued serially were remainders that had failed when they first came out.
2001 I. Sinclair Landor's Tower (2002) i. iii. 32 A few gaudy paperback shockers, makeweights in containerloads of US remainders.
b. An unused portion of goods, a remnant. Chiefly in plural: unused or unsold goods sold at a reduced price.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > what remains in excess > unused portion of goods or material
remainder1829
1829 Aberdeen Jrnl. 6 May (advt.) Haberdashery Goods. A few remainders of Cloth and Cassimere.
1894 Liverpool Mercury 31 July 1/3 (advt.) Remainders from sale... A number of Single Pairs of ladies' boots and shoes left from various lots.
1914 J. Leatham Daavit 69 My dear good old mother bocht a remmander fae Johnnie Hitcheon, and took it an' me ti Saunders ti be mizhur't.
1939 Econ. Jrnl. 49 285 Whenever tanners sell ‘remainders’ or otherwise wish to clear their stock, small quantities may be bought very cheaply.
2004 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 6 Aug. e1 She's pooh-poohed the time-honoured tradition of rummaging through racks of remainders and last pairs.
B. adj. (attributive).
Remaining, leftover.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [adjective]
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remainant1445
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remnant1550
remainder1567
leftc1595
residual1609
residuous1626
reliqued1628
restant1663
good1684
reversionary1816
relict1898
1567 Ld. Herries in Robertson Hist. Scot. (1759) II. App. 51 He hoped the remainder noblemen of their party..would come to the same conformity.
1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 83 Lett us not be so iniurious to remaender antiquitye as to deprive ye fardist of[f] of his due commendation.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 39 His braine..is as drie as the remainder bisket After a voyage. View more context for this quotation
1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea viii. 109 The remainder part of the Worm either rotting in the Body, or breaking out at some other place.
1799 C. Lamb Let. 15 Mar. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 162 The remainder Eclogues..I do not greatly admire.
1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies xxiv, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 13 Their memories are dimm'd and torn, Like the remainder tatters of a dream.
1899 Sketch 1 Nov. 62/1 The poor evening paper cannot afford this. It must..be content with the ‘remainder biscuit’ of the morning's telegrams.
1947 O. Barfield in M. Black Importance of Lang. (1962) 52 If you took away from the stream of European poetry every passage of a metaphorical nature, you would reduce it to a very thin trickle indeed, pure though the remainder beverage might be to the taste.
1994 R. Fisher Birmingham River 52 Whatever blast of the municipality lifts the remainder haze clear of Sheffield and over the North Sea.
Compounds
C1. General attributive (in sense A. 7), as remainder book, remainder list, remainder shop, etc.
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society > communication > book > kind of book > books as sold > [noun] > worst-seller or slow-seller
remainder1757
rum1760
remainder book1858
plug1890
crab1896
worst-seller1903
society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling books
bookstore1760
bookshop1762
novel-shop1806
bookery1904
remainder shop1912
booketeria1921
society > communication > record > list > [noun]
tableOE
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billa1340
calendar?a1400
legendc1400
librarya1450
Ragmanc1450
Ragman rollc1450
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repertory1542
scrowa1545
bedroll?1552
roll1565
file1566
state1582
inventory1589
brief1600
series1601
counter-roll1603
list1604
muster roll1605
cense1615
pinax1625
repertoirec1626
diagram1631
recensiona1638
repertorium1667
vocabulary1694
albe1697
enumeration1725
screed1748
album1753
tableau1792
roll-call1833
shopping list1923
laundry list1958
remainder list1977
1858 Caledonian Mercury 30 Nov. 1/3 (advt.) Cheap remainder books.
1900 Times 25 Sept. 2/6 I have no control over the persons who purchased the remainder stock and the moulds.
1912 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 773/2 It is pitiful to see the rows of discarded books in circulating libraries and remainder-shops.
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Sept. 688/2 The unsold sheets of a published book are re-issued with a cancel title or a new preface, or in a remainder binding.
1977 Gay News 24 Mar. 21/3 I use anything that's cheap on the remainder list.
1989 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 12 Mar. x1 [Miami] Vice T-shirts now hang on the remainder racks.
1997 I. Sinclair Lights out for Territory (1998) 135 Failing West End brokers, who can't lose face by ticketing..their iffy Picassos, at remainder prices.
2001 My Business May 29/2 Owners Helaine Harris and Robin Moody have focused on reduced-price remainder books.
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remainderman n. Law a person to whom a remainder (sense A. 1a) is granted or to whom an estate in remainder descends (by inheritance).
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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > legatee > to whom a remainder is bequeathed
remaindermana1642
substitute1652
a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) ii. 108 Whether the remainder man, and he in Reversion depending upon an Estate in Tail, shall be rated and taxed, or not, by the power of these Laws, is an apt question.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 166 The remainder-man is seised of his remainder at the same time that the termor is possessed of his term.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) VI. 41 It divests the remainder or reversion,..leaving only in the remainder-man or reversioner a mere right of entry.
1968 Times 20 Feb. 24/4 In many private trusts, all capital profit is reserved for remaindermen.
2005 P. S. Spencer Your Estate Matters 71 Trust income beneficiaries and remaindermen have historically been at odds.
remainder theorem n. Mathematics the theorem that if a polynomial f(x) is divided by (x − a) the remainder will be f(a), the value of the polynomial for x = a.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > mathematical enquiry > proposition > theorem > specific theorem
pons asinorum1718
Fermat's theorem1845
Bernoulli's theorem1865
Fermat's last theorem1865
Fourier's theorem1880
remainder theorem1886
Stokes' theorem1893
Jordan('s) (curve) theorem1900
Waring's theorem1920
Gödel's theorem1933
maximin1953
incompleteness theorem1955
Schwarz inequality1955
1886 G. Chrystal Algebra I. vii. 134 (heading) Results of the application of remainder theorem.
1933 R. W. Brink College Algebra xix. 295 Without performing the divisions, by means of the Remainder Theorem find the remainder after each of the following divisions.
2001 Math. Gaz. 85 476 The fact that fmn is divisible by fm and fn is an immediate consequence of the remainder theorem.
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remainderv.
/rᵻˈmeɪndə/, U.S. /rəˈmeɪndər/, /riˈmeɪndər/ 1. Law.† a. intransitive. Of property or a title: to be granted to a person as a remainder (remainder n. 1a); = remain v. 3. Frequently with to. Obsolete.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > descend by succession [verb (intransitive)] > pass as inheritance > as a remainder
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remain1426
1412 in H. M. Flasdieck Mittelengl. Originalurkunden (1926) 50 (MED) Thys is the wyll off Adam of the Wode and Margeret, hys wyfe..yat thay enfeffe agayne thys forsayde Adam and Margeret, hys wyfe, for the terme of thayre lyfe, and the reuersyoun after thayre decesse remandyre to sir Richard Redman.
c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 87 (MED) Thanne be it used the same processe for to doon hym comen as it is conteyned in the constitucion of the reconisaunce of tenementz that owen to reverten or remeyndren.
1448 in B. Sundby Stud. Middle Eng. Dial. Material Worcs. Rec. (1963) 256 (MED) The remayndur ther of to the Foreseid John Blount ant Kateryn and to the heiris of hure towe bodies laufully begeton, and For defaute of suche heiris to remaynde to the right heiris of the Foreseid Thomas Corbet.
b. transitive. To grant (property or a title) to a person as a remainder. rare.
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1828 Trans. Cymmrodorion 2 290 [He] had no male issue, and remaindered his Castle in succession to the husbands of his four sisters.
2002 E. Cruickshanks et al. House of Commons 1690–1715 III. 277/2 In default of heirs the lands were remaindered to Boulter.
2. transitive. Publishing To dispose of (a book, edition of a book, etc.) at a reduced price; to treat as a remainder (remainder n. 7a). Also with author as object.
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society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > sell specific things [verb (transitive)] > sell books in specific manner
remainder1829
travel1937
denet1962
1829 Eclectic Rev. Oct. 337 It is to the disgrace of the patrons of literature, that this exquisite work has been lately, what is technically called, ‘remaindered’.
1906 Times 17 Nov. 9/3 How many books do we see every year produced by publishers who..‘remainder’ them at a few pence a copy?
1932 John o' London's Weekly 25 June 428 He told me he had bought them when they were remaindered by publishers, at 9d. a copy.
1968 C. M. Vines Little Nut-brown Man x. 155 He liked his books to be in short supply, thus perhaps appearing better sellers than they were; or he disliked the thought of being remaindered.
2002 H. Jones & C. Benson Publishing Law (ed. 2) iv. 95 Most publishers know when a book has ceased to have any further sales potential and may want the power to remainder their remaining stock.
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