tontinen.adj.

Brit.

/ˈtɒntiːn/,

/ˈtɒntʌɪn/,

/tɒnˈtiːn/, U.S.

/ˈtɑnˌtin/

Etymology: < French tontine, from name of Lorenzo Tonti, a Neapolitan banker, who initiated the scheme in France c1653.

A. n.

1. A financial scheme by which the subscribers to a loan or common fund receive each an annuity during his life, which increases as their number is diminished by death, till the last survivor enjoys the whole income; also applied to the share or right of each subscriber. Introduced first in France as a method of raising government loans. Afterwards tontines were formed for building houses, hotels, baths, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > investment > annuity > schemes or types of

long annuity?1711

perpetuity1715

irredeemable1720

tontine1765

terminable annuity1778

1765 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 71/2 The house of Commons came to a resolution of raising £300,000..by way of tontine, or annuities upon lives, at 3 per cent. with benefit of survivorship.

1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal i. i. 10 He pays as many annuities as the Irish Tontine.

1791 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 27/2 This gentlewoman had ventured 300 livres in each Tontine; and in the last year of her life she had for her annuity..about 3600l. a year.

1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1533 During a scarcity of money which prevailed in 1644, Lawrence Tonti came from Naples to Paris, and proposed that kind of life-rents, or annuities, which are named after him Tontines; though they were used in Italy long before his time.

1871 Daily News 4 Jan. It is proposed to organize a tontine, to purchase the Alexandra Palace, with the park of about 100 acres, and utilise them for public recreation. The sum required is 650,000l., which it is intended to raise in shares of 20s. each.

figurative.1796 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iv, in Wks. (1812) IX. 67 The murderers of Robespierre, besides what they are entitled to by being engaged in the same tontine of Infamy,..have inherited all his murderous qualities.

2. A game of cards played on the tontine principle: see quots.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others

laugh and lie down1522

mack1548

decoyc1555

pinionc1557

to beat the knave out of doors1570

imperial1577

prima vista1587

loadum1591

flush1598

prime1598

thirty-perforce1599

gresco1605

hole1621

my sow's pigged1621

slam1621

fox-mine-host1622

whipperginnie1622

crimpa1637

hundred1636

pinache1641

sequence1653

lady's hole1658

quebas1668

art of memory1674

costly colours1674

penneech1674

plain dealing1674

wit and reason1680

comet1685

lansquenet1687

incertain1689

macham1689

uptails1694

quinze1714

hoc1730

commerce1732

matrimonya1743

tredrille1764

Tom come tickle me1769

tresette1785

snitch'ems1798

tontine1798

blind hazard1816

all fives1838

short cards1845

blind hookey1852

sixty-six1857

skin the lamb1864

brisque1870

handicap1870

manille1874

forty-five1875

slobberhannes1877

fifteen1884

Black Maria1885

slapjack1887

seven-and-a-half1895

pit1904

Russian Bank1915

red dog1919

fan-tan1923

Pelmanism1923

Slippery Sam1923

go fish1933

Russian Banker1937

racing demon1938

pit-a-pat1947

scopa1965

1798 Sporting Mag. 11 24 Tontine may be played by twelve or fifteen persons; but the more the merrier.

1798 Sporting Mag. 11 24 Tontine..is played with an entire pack of fifty-two cards..every one is to take a stake.

1798 Sporting Mag. 11 25/1 He who outlives all the rest, by having counters left, when theirs are gone, wins the party, and enjoys what the others have deposited.

3. Applied to a friendly society which shares out its unexpended funds at the end of the year.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > insurance association or friendly society

Rechabite1637

friendly society1684

provident society1771

provident club1797

benefit-society1801

benefit-club1812

burial-society1812

ménage1815

burial club1848

forestry1861

tontine1871

shepherdry1900

approved society1911

1871 2nd Rep. Comm. Friendly Soc. (1872) 38/1 It is curious..that they [these sharing out clubs] call themselves tontines; I do not know why; of course it is a wrong name.

1898 E. W. Brabrook Provident Societies 69 The Dividing Societies..exist in great numbers, under a variety of names, as Slate Clubs, Tontines, Birmingham Benefit Societies, &c.

B. adj. (or attributive use of the noun).

Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a tontine.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [adjective] > insurance policy types

tontine1790

whole-life1832

term1834

floating1839

all risks1885

third party1901

non-profit1905

knock for knock1906

stamped1913

warehouse to warehouse1922

without-profit(s)1924

with-profit(s)1924

loaded1928

unit-linked1966

no-fault1967

new-for-old1984

critical illness1986

1790 J. Woodforde Diary 3 Sept. (1927) III. 211 Mr. Custance brought some Papers for me to sign respecting all his Children being put into the new Tontine Annuities.

1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. i. 21 At length a tontine subscription was obtained to erect an inn.

1834 H. Martineau Farrers of Budge-Row i Some of the lot of lives with which her father and she were joined in a tontine annuity had failed.

1863 J. F. Kirk Hist. Charles the Bold II. iv. ii. 222 The destined survivor of a tontine partnership.

1876 Haydn's Dict. Dates (ed. 15) 719 A Mr. Jennings was an original subscriber for a 100l. share in a tontine company; and being the last survivor.., his share produced him 3000l. per annum. He died aged 103 years, 19 June, 1798, worth 2,115,244l.

1891 Cent. Dict. Tontine policy, a policy of insurance, in which the holders agree to receive no dividend for a term of years called the tontine period. The money is allowed to accumulate till the end of the period, when it is divided among those who have maintained their insurance in force.

Derivatives

tontiner n.

/tɒnˈtiːnə(r)/ a shareholder in a tontine.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > investment > annuity > schemes or types of > shareholder in tontine

tontiner1881

1881 Times 1 June 6/2 [Two survivors] claimed the whole fund, in their respective classes, as against the representatives of the deceased tontiners in the same class.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tontine
释义	tontinen.adj. Brit. /ˈtɒntiːn/, /ˈtɒntʌɪn/, /tɒnˈtiːn/, U.S. /ˈtɑnˌtin/ Etymology: < French tontine, from name of Lorenzo Tonti, a Neapolitan banker, who initiated the scheme in France c1653. A. n. 1. A financial scheme by which the subscribers to a loan or common fund receive each an annuity during his life, which increases as their number is diminished by death, till the last survivor enjoys the whole income; also applied to the share or right of each subscriber. Introduced first in France as a method of raising government loans. Afterwards tontines were formed for building houses, hotels, baths, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > investment > annuity > schemes or types of long annuity?1711 perpetuity1715 irredeemable1720 tontine1765 terminable annuity1778 1765 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 71/2 The house of Commons came to a resolution of raising £300,000..by way of tontine, or annuities upon lives, at 3 per cent. with benefit of survivorship. 1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal i. i. 10 He pays as many annuities as the Irish Tontine. 1791 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 27/2 This gentlewoman had ventured 300 livres in each Tontine; and in the last year of her life she had for her annuity..about 3600l. a year. 1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1533 During a scarcity of money which prevailed in 1644, Lawrence Tonti came from Naples to Paris, and proposed that kind of life-rents, or annuities, which are named after him Tontines; though they were used in Italy long before his time. 1871 Daily News 4 Jan. It is proposed to organize a tontine, to purchase the Alexandra Palace, with the park of about 100 acres, and utilise them for public recreation. The sum required is 650,000l., which it is intended to raise in shares of 20s. each. figurative.1796 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iv, in Wks. (1812) IX. 67 The murderers of Robespierre, besides what they are entitled to by being engaged in the same tontine of Infamy,..have inherited all his murderous qualities. 2. A game of cards played on the tontine principle: see quots. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others laugh and lie down1522 mack1548 decoyc1555 pinionc1557 to beat the knave out of doors1570 imperial1577 prima vista1587 loadum1591 flush1598 prime1598 thirty-perforce1599 gresco1605 hole1621 my sow's pigged1621 slam1621 fox-mine-host1622 whipperginnie1622 crimpa1637 hundred1636 pinache1641 sequence1653 lady's hole1658 quebas1668 art of memory1674 costly colours1674 penneech1674 plain dealing1674 wit and reason1680 comet1685 lansquenet1687 incertain1689 macham1689 uptails1694 quinze1714 hoc1730 commerce1732 matrimonya1743 tredrille1764 Tom come tickle me1769 tresette1785 snitch'ems1798 tontine1798 blind hazard1816 all fives1838 short cards1845 blind hookey1852 sixty-six1857 skin the lamb1864 brisque1870 handicap1870 manille1874 forty-five1875 slobberhannes1877 fifteen1884 Black Maria1885 slapjack1887 seven-and-a-half1895 pit1904 Russian Bank1915 red dog1919 fan-tan1923 Pelmanism1923 Slippery Sam1923 go fish1933 Russian Banker1937 racing demon1938 pit-a-pat1947 scopa1965 1798 Sporting Mag. 11 24 Tontine may be played by twelve or fifteen persons; but the more the merrier. 1798 Sporting Mag. 11 24 Tontine..is played with an entire pack of fifty-two cards..every one is to take a stake. 1798 Sporting Mag. 11 25/1 He who outlives all the rest, by having counters left, when theirs are gone, wins the party, and enjoys what the others have deposited. 3. Applied to a friendly society which shares out its unexpended funds at the end of the year. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > insurance association or friendly society Rechabite1637 friendly society1684 provident society1771 provident club1797 benefit-society1801 benefit-club1812 burial-society1812 ménage1815 burial club1848 forestry1861 tontine1871 shepherdry1900 approved society1911 1871 2nd Rep. Comm. Friendly Soc. (1872) 38/1 It is curious..that they [these sharing out clubs] call themselves tontines; I do not know why; of course it is a wrong name. 1898 E. W. Brabrook Provident Societies 69 The Dividing Societies..exist in great numbers, under a variety of names, as Slate Clubs, Tontines, Birmingham Benefit Societies, &c. B. adj. (or attributive use of the noun). Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a tontine. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [adjective] > insurance policy types tontine1790 whole-life1832 term1834 floating1839 all risks1885 third party1901 non-profit1905 knock for knock1906 stamped1913 warehouse to warehouse1922 without-profit(s)1924 with-profit(s)1924 loaded1928 unit-linked1966 no-fault1967 new-for-old1984 critical illness1986 1790 J. Woodforde Diary 3 Sept. (1927) III. 211 Mr. Custance brought some Papers for me to sign respecting all his Children being put into the new Tontine Annuities. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. i. 21 At length a tontine subscription was obtained to erect an inn. 1834 H. Martineau Farrers of Budge-Row i Some of the lot of lives with which her father and she were joined in a tontine annuity had failed. 1863 J. F. Kirk Hist. Charles the Bold II. iv. ii. 222 The destined survivor of a tontine partnership. 1876 Haydn's Dict. Dates (ed. 15) 719 A Mr. Jennings was an original subscriber for a 100l. share in a tontine company; and being the last survivor.., his share produced him 3000l. per annum. He died aged 103 years, 19 June, 1798, worth 2,115,244l. 1891 Cent. Dict. Tontine policy, a policy of insurance, in which the holders agree to receive no dividend for a term of years called the tontine period. The money is allowed to accumulate till the end of the period, when it is divided among those who have maintained their insurance in force. Derivatives tontiner n. /tɒnˈtiːnə(r)/ a shareholder in a tontine. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > investment > annuity > schemes or types of > shareholder in tontine tontiner1881 1881 Times 1 June 6/2 [Two survivors] claimed the whole fund, in their respective classes, as against the representatives of the deceased tontiners in the same class. 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