▪ I. cashier, n.
(kæˈʃɪə(r))
Also 7 cassier, casheer, -ire.
[ad. F. caissier treasurer (Cotgr.); in Du. cassier: see cash and -ier.]
One who has charge of the cash of a bank or mercantile firm, paying and receiving money, and keeping the cash account.
| 1596 Nashe Saffron Walden 97 The Cashiers or Prouiditores for lame Souldiours. 1598 B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. ii. i, I haue made him my Cashier, And giu'n him, who had none, a surname, Cash. 1617 Moryson Itin. iii. ii. iv. 95 They tooke young youths of that Nation [the Dutch] to be their Cassiers. 1705 Vanbrugh Confed i. ii, Go to my Cashier, let him give you six and fifty pound. 1848 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxiii. (L.) To accept the place of cashier of the excise. |
† b. A money-dealer. Obs.
| 1643 T. Violet Declar. Bullion 9 Many Gold-smiths and Casheers of London. a 1687 Petty Pol. Arith. ix. (1691) 110 It was observed by the general consent of Cashiers. |
Hence caˈshiership.
| 1884 Graphic 25 Oct. 422/2. |
▪ II. cashier, v.
(kəˈʃɪə(r))
Forms: 6 casseir, 6–7 casseer(e, casheer(e, cashiere, 7 cassir, -ier(e, -ere, caszier, casier, cachier, cashieere, casher(e, 7–8 cashire, casheir(e, 6– cashier.
[16th c. a. Flem. or Du. casser-en, in same sense: Kilian has kasseren de krieghslieden, exauctorare milites, to disband soldiers, and kasseren een testament, rescindere testamentum, to rescind a will; cf. Ger. kassiren; and, for the sense, cass v., cash v.1
Fr. verbs adopted in Du. and Ger. frequently retain the inf. -er, -ir, as part of the stem, but few of these have been adopted in Eng. Cashier probably dates to the campaign in the Netherlands of 1585. The instance quoted by Richardson from Strype Eccl. Mem. II. App. EE. of 1549 has no existence: see cass a.]
1. trans. To dismiss from service or fellowship. † a. Mil. To discharge, break up, disband (troops).
| 1598 Hakluyt Voy. I. 63 Our men must not..depart and casseir their bandes, or separate themselues asunder. 1580 North Plutarch 923 He could not abide very fat men, but cashiered a whole band of them for that cause onely. 1604 E. Grimstone Hist. Siege Ostend 188 He hath casziered and dismissed about 600 men. 1625 Chas. I. in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 319 III. 211 To casier my Monsers. 1697 Potter Antiq. Greece iii. v. (1715) 53 Power to cashire any of the Common Soldiers. 1734 tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) VI. xv. §17. 291 He returns suddenly into his tent, cashiers his old gard. |
b. generally. Obs. (exc. as in 2 b).
| 1592 Greene Groatsw. Wit 28 Hee was casseerde by Lamilia that had coosened him of all. 1610 Histrio-m. iii. 85 All the Lords have now cashierd their traines. 1640 G. Watts tr. Bacon's Adv. Learn. 472 Those points..which..quite casseere them from the communion and fellowship of the faithfull. 1649 Milton Eikon. iv. (Bohn) 351 By him nicknamed and cashiered for a mongrel parliament. 1716 Addison Freeholder No. 11 (1751) 65 The Ladies..have already cashiered several of their Followers. 1791 Cowper Odyss. xix. 405 That man shall be cashiered Hence instant. |
2. To dismiss from a position of command or authority; to depose. (In the army and navy involving disgrace and permanent exclusion from the service.) a. Mil.
| 1599 Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 131 The Pope..it is thought will cashiere some worthy authours who..holde ranke among them. 1604 Shakes. Oth. ii. iii. 381. 1624 Heywood Gunaik. ix. 442 The King..not onely cashiered them from their commaunds, but banished them his kingdome. 1763 Act 4 Geo. III, ii. §22 Such Military Officer shall..be deemed and taken to be ipso facto cashired. 1830 E. Campbell Dict. Mil. Sc., Cashiered, when an Officer is ordered by His Majesty, or sentenced by a Court-Martial, to be dismissed the Service, he is said to be cashiered. 1879 Seguin Black For. xiii. 225 All the officers who took part in the capitulation, were cashiered or otherwise punished. |
b. transf. and fig.
| 1609 C. Butler Fem. Mon. (1634) 3 But if they [bees] have many Princes, as when two fly away with one swarm..they will not be quiet till one of them be cassiered. a 1639 W. Whately Prototypes i. xix. (1640) 227 When pride is thus cashiered by the entering in of true humiliation, there it no longer raigneth. c 1640 in Sc. Pasquils (1868) 126 That Lad who late rewl'd all, Now cashier'd goes, most like to catch a fall. 1650 A. A[scham] Reply Sanderson 13 If he had a King to day, he would go neer to cachier him to morrow. 1789 Belsham Ess. II. xl. 503 The people have a right to cashier their Governors for misconduct. 1793 Ld. Sheffield in Corr. Ld. Auckland (1861) II. 496 When a majority of the people thought another kind of Government preferable they undoubtedly had a right to cashier the King. 1839 Syd. Smith Let. Singleton Wks. 1859 II. 267/2 You are cashiered and confiscated before you can look about you. |
3. To discard, get rid of, cast off, put away, lay aside, dismiss, banish (a thing).
| 1603 Harsnet Pop. Impost. 28 Let them cassier those old Monuments of Ethnick prophane learning. 1628 Prynne Love Lockes 16 To casheere their Ruffianly Haire. 1641 Milton Ch. Discip. ii. (1851) 56 To cashier, and cut away from the publick body the noysum, and diseased tumor of Prelacie. 1656 Trapp Comm. Hebr. x. 26 Others..have..cashiered this Epistle out of the canon. 1775 Sheridan Rivals ii. i, I shall..cashier the hunting-frock. 1848 H. Rogers Ess. (1878) I. vi. 282 All reject..some dialogues (though..they are not quite agreed..which they are to cashier). |
† 4. To make void, annul, do away with. Obs.
| 1596 H. Clapham Briefe Bible i. 58 They see the very ground of all their hope, cashierde, & quasht. 1601 F. Godwin Bps. Eng. 174 As for the election..he caused the same to be cassired and made void. 1650 Baxter Saints' R. iv. xii. (1662) 772 This Argument would certainly cashier all Spiritual obedience. |
5. To deprive of. (rare.)
| 1668 Child Disc. Trade (1694) Pref. 26 How it comes to pass that the Dutch low interest has not cashiered us of these trades. 1835 I. Taylor Spir. Despot. iv. 156 To cashier the ministers of religion of all dignity and power. |
¶ ‘In the slang of Bardolph it seems to mean: to ease a person of his cash’ (Schmidt).
| 1598 Shakes. Merry W. i. i. 184, I say the Gentleman..being fap, sir, was (as they say) casheerd. |
Hence caˈshiered ppl. a., caˈshiering vbl. n.
| c 1605 Rowley Birth Merl. iii. v. 325 Hath re-united all his cashier'd troops. 1628 Earle Microcosm., Flatterer 68 Makes him doubt his casheering. 1633 T. Stafford Pac. Hib. xxi. (1821) 214 The cashiering of fiue hundred Foot. 1634 Heywood Mayden-head lost i. i. Wks. 1874 IV. 105 He return'd me home A Cashierd Captaine. 1826 Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 326 From the first cashiering of my blue ribands. 1844 Disraeli Coningsby vi. viii. 248 The cause of fallen dynasties and a cashiered nobility. |