单词 | remuneratory |
释义 | remuneratoryadj. Now rare. That provides or is concerned with remuneration or reward; affording or given in remuneration; remunerative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > [adjective] > rewarding > bringing recompense remuneratory1586 rewardful1595 remunerating1608 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. D2 Remuneratorie, whereby wee giue thanks for courtesies, benefites, or good turnes receaued. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 219 The gift of vtensile goods..is of so little force, as with death it is not confirmed, except it be remuneratory. 1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. i. i. 10 Such are the Remuneratory Obligations of Gratitude, and the inward Obligations of the Mind, as of Affection, Love, Kindness. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 145. ⁋4 Remuneratory honours are proportioned at once to the usefulness and difficulty of performances. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 56 Human legislators have for the most part chosen to make the sanction of their laws rather vindicatory than remuneratory. 1844 M. Hennell Social Syst. 118 Legislation..will be remuneratory, and distribute the honour and glory due to pre-eminent virtue. 1885 Times 12 Sept. 6/6 A theory of capital which ignored the great and growing preponderance of auxiliary over remuneratory capital was liable to be similarly delusive. 2003 A. Aiken tr. R. C. Gomes Making of Court Society iii. 283 This relational field..is formed by the adoption of remuneratory systems such as that of moradias. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1586 |
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