† ˈsecutor, ˈsectour Obs.
Forms: 3–4 seketur, 4 sekatur, 4–5 seke-, seka-, secutour, 5 sekka-, seca-, secoutour, seccutur, secutur, -or, seketowr(e, sekiture; 4–6 sectour, 5 sektour, secktur, 5–6 sectur, 6 sekture, sector.
[Aphetic form of executor.]
= executor.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 28322 Ic seketur made of testament, ne folud noght with gode entent þe testament for to fulfill, bot gafe i it gain dedis will. a 1330 Roland & V. 390 At þe nende of þritti niȝt, To his seketour com þe ded kniȝt, & seyd in þis maner: ‘Mi soule [etc.]’. 13.. Metr. Hom. (Vernon MS.) in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LVII. 259 While he lyuede faste preyed he Þat þou his sekatur mihte be. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 128 Þe which aren prestes inparfit and prechoures after syluer, Sectoures and sudenes, somnoures and her lemmannes. 1387 E.E. Wills (1882) 2, I ordeine Watkyn my sone, secutour. c 1425 Cast. Persev. 102 in Macro Plays 80 He sendith afftyr his sekkatours, ful fekyl to fynde. c 1460 Towneley Myst. xxxi. 166 Trust neuer freyndys frele Nawthere of childe then wife; ffor sectures ar not lele. c 1485 Early Eng. Misc. (Warton Club) 41 Ȝefe thi almus with thi hand, trust to no secatour. 1493 Halyburton's Ledger (1867) 32 Som that I rest awand to John Twedy or hys wyff and sekituris is 33li. 5s. 5gs. 1505 Presentments of Juries in Surtees Misc. (1890) 31 Dyssyryng hym to be hys sektur, and also me to be hys sekture to. 1509 Barclay Ship of Fools (1874) I. 117 Thou ought nat yet to kepe it nere the more. But to his sectours or heyres it restore. 1567 Gude & Godlie B. 30 Sair I suspect, God accuse His sectouris, and him self refuse, That sa vnfaithfullie deceist. |
Hence † ˈsecutorship rare = executorship.
| 1553 Respublica iii. vi. 864 This same I got by sectourshipp of my Mother. Ibid. 866 This bag have I kepte of other sectourships whole, whiche the Madde knaves woulde had scettred by penie dole. |