amerciament
(əˈmɜːsɪəmənt)
Also 5–6 amercyament.
[Refashioned from amercement, after med.L. amerciāment-um, f. amerciāre: see amerciate. More freq. than amercement as techn. term.]
1. = amercement 1.
| 1543 Grafton Contn. Harding's Chron. 508 Euery thyng was haunsed above the measure; amercyamentes turned into fines, fines into raunsomes. c 1550 Sir. J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 18 Gif ony of thame cumis not, he sall be in the Kingis amerciament. 1576 Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 202 The amerciament of bloudshead. 1607 J. Cowell Interpr. (1637) D j b, Amerciament..signifieth the pecuniarie punishment of an offendor against the King or other Lord in his Court. 1714 Scroggs Courts-Leet (ed. 3) 119 He was amerced, and by the Amerciament affeered to 10s. 1776 Customs of Epworth in Stonehouse Axholme (1839) 145 All amerciaments made to be the usual and customary amerciaments. 1860 Forster Grand Remonstr. 22 That such amerciaments..should be imposed by the oath of the good men of the neighbourhood. |
2. = amercement 2.
| c 1425 Chaucer Pars. T. (Lansd. MS.) 678 Elles take þei of her bondemen amerciament. 1473–4 Act 12 & 13 Edw. IV in Oxf. & Camb. Enactmts. 9 Fynes, amerciamentes and other profites. 1514 Fitzherb. Just. Peas (1538) 83 The parsons that shal be gatherers of the sayde amerciamentes. 1605 Play of Stucley (1878) 183 Theres your amerciaments. And give Jack Dudley this from me to pay his fees. 1783 Martyn Geog. Mag. II. 400 He collects all public fines, distresses, and amerciaments. 1800 Colquhoun Comm. & Pol. Thames xi. 311 The emoluments..arise chiefly from fines and amerciaments. |