lieu
(ljuː, luː)
Forms: 3 liue, 6 leu, 6–7 lue, 7 le(i)w, 7–8 liew(e, 6– lieu.
[a. F. lieu:—L. locum, acc. of locus place.]
Place, ‘stead’.
1. In phrases. a. in (the) lieu of: in the place, room, or stead of (cf. instead 1); in exchange or return for, as a payment, penalty, or reward for.
| c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 237/620 And nouþe In liue of Aungele ane man ich i-seo. 1534 Acts 26 Hen. VIII, c. 15 §2 Any other demaunde or duetie, in the name or lue of the same. 1548 Udall Erasm. Par. Luke Pref. 11 b, In the lieu and place of Goddes innumerable, all their song..is now of Jesus Christe alone. 1589 Nashe Anat. Absurd. 24 In lieu of their crueltie, they were plagued with this calamitie. 1620 Sir R. Boyle in Lismore Papers (1886) I. 239, I..am to paie him 3 tonnes of yron in lew of 40li. 1640 S. D. Ewes in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 166 Two subsidies granted in leiw of it. 1675 N. Riding Rec. VI. 237 Ord{supd}. That {pstlg}7 be paid unto the said Jane Watson in lue of her money and cloathes. 1680 Cotton Gamester 82 He takes in those four Cards and lays out four others in their lieu. 1719 Young Busiris i. i, I receive thee from the gods, in lieu Of all that happiness they ravish'd from me. 1793 Smeaton Edystone L. §101 A durable stone building in lieu of a perishable wooden one. 1866 Crump Banking ix. 195 The amount to be paid in lieu of stamp duty. 1891 Law Times XCII. 80/1 The plaintiff sued the defendant for a quarter's rent in lieu of notice. |
b. in lieu: used absol. = instead 2. arch.
| 1599 in Fowler Hist. C.C.C. (O.H.S.) 351 We thought that in Leu to recompense hereof..we might lawfully take part of the fine for ourselves. a 1650 May Old Couple i. (1658) 2 Keep out the Sun, and do bestow in lieu A greater benefit, a safe concealment. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 432 God will not give us the thing we desire, but a better in lieu. 1869 Browning Ring & Bk. ix. 1195 Quit the gay range o' the world Enter in lieu the penitential pound. |
2. Used without preceding prep. for: † a. ? Something given ‘in lieu’ of another thing (obs. rare—1). b. Stead, room (rare).
| 1592 Bp. Andrewes Wonderful Combat vi. (1627) 95 One would thinke it a very large offer to giue so great a lieu for so small a seruice. 1832 Austin Jurispr. (1879) II. xlvi. 807 A fungible or representable thing is a thing whose place, lieu or room may be supplied by a thing of the same kind. |