Middle English Dictionary Entry
reconisǒur n.
Entry Info
| Forms | reconisǒur n. |
| Etymology | AF reconissour |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Law One who enters into a recognizance.
Associated quotations
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)63 : Thanne be it awarded..that that tenaunt to terme of lyff or of yerys helde..the same tenementes of hym, to whom the ryght of the reversioun or of the remayndre is graunted and knowen, as they helden ys a forne the reconisour [ID(1): reconyssour].
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)137 : And after that ne be the reconisour resceyved in court to with seyn that reconisaunce.