Middle English Dictionary Entry
stāblement n.
Entry Info
| Forms | stāblement n. Also stabil(e)ment, stabiliment. |
| Etymology | From OF establement, establiment & L stabilīmentum. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. establement n.
1.
(a) That which makes firm or reinforces; (b) an ordinance, enactment; a rule, regulation; also, a pledge, binding agreement [last quot.].
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)271b/a : The þridde tyme þey [bees] setteþ more gretter matiere & þikke, and þat is þe stablement and fastenyng of þe hony combes.
b
- (1424) Let.Bk.Lond.I (Gldh LetBk I)290 : If ony bi colour of his commissioun wolde take onything ageyn this stabilement, no man be bounden to obeye to him.
- (1473) Oak Bk.Sou.in Sou.RS 1093 : The..wardens..shall make a serche..to see that the pointes and stablementes made of their warde be well holde. And if they finde any thinge that is againste the stablementes of the gilde of the towne in their warde, they shall do it to wete to the chief alderman.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)100 : Ples hit..to consydyr..youre mysdoers..that they may ben ressayvyd to grace..to sweryn and trewly for to holdyn..and mentayne..alle the statutys, stabylmentys, and jugementys don and yevyn in youre hye Parlyment..and alle othyr statutys, ordynauncys, and stabilymentys sythe hyder to done.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)55/8 : It fallys to a kynge þat he attempre hym with trewe stablementz & lawes.
- a1500(1426) Let.Marg.Anjou in Camd.86 (Add 46846)30 : As touching the paiement of the some of x ml. marcs be the saide Kinge of Scotland, owing, as be terme runnen, after the stablement of the same, and due to be paied unto the Kynge, [etc.].