† seinv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To sign, seal.
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society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > sealing > seal [verb (transitive)]
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1258 Proclam. Henry III in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1868–9) 21 We senden ȝew þis writ open iseined wiþ vre seel.
1549 in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pleas Court Admiralty (1897) II. 70 I have written and seynidde this presentt with myne owne proper handde.
1638 in Hamilton Papers (1880) 3 We command you expreslie..to publis the proclamatioun fourthwith drauen up with your oune hand, which we have seined.
a1660 Aphorismical Discov. in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1879) I. 136 He seined his fiat to the conformation of the said requeste.
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