Middle English Dictionary Entry
stablishment n.
Entry Info
| Forms | stablishment n. Also stablishement, stableshement. |
| Etymology | From OF establissement. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. establishemente n.
1.
(a) Founding, establishment; perpetuelle ~, establishment in perpetuity; (b) strengthening; ?also, preservation; (c) an ordinance, enactment; a rule; (d) confirmation; (e) a stable social order.
Associated quotations
a
- (1444) RParl.5.75b : Please hit unto youre right wise discretions..for the perpetuell stablesshement of the same College..for to beseche oure said Soveraine Lord..for to graunte his Chartre to be made.
- (1459) RParl.5.365b : Please it youre seid Highnes..for the more suerte of the stablisshment and fundation of the seid Hous..To accept..and conferme..the seid stablisshment and fundation of the seid Hous of Jhu of Bethleem of Shene.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)61 : Merlyn..tolde hym the stablisshement of this table.
b
- (1444) RParl.5.75b : The Kyng oure Soverayn Lord..to thexaltation of oure Moder holy Chirch, stablisshement of oure faith, and augmentation of Clergie, founded..a College.
- (1447-8) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1353 : I..took vnto my silf..forto erect..vnto the..worship of his name..and stablisshement of christen feith my two colleges Roialx.
c
- ?1435 Lond.Chron.Jul.(Jul B.2)37 : We wole..that..oure successour..meyntene..alle the ordenaunces, domes, and stablysshementes y-made..at Coventre.
- (1473) RParl.6.83a : Provided..that this Acte..nor any other Acte, Statute, Stablisshement, or Ordenaunce made..in this present Parlement extend not..to Thomas Seyntleger.
- (1475) RParl.6.138a : Henry shuld..be..convicte..after the..effect of the ordinances and stablisshementes foreseid.
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)36/82 : In rulinge of the stablisshmentes amonges the people, I defouled never my conscience.
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)105/132 : Bothe professe and reguler arn..bounden to this Margarite-perle as by knotte of loves statutes and stablisshment in kynde.
d
- (1425) Proc.Privy C.3.171 : Commissaries..shuld assemble..for reformacioun of þe said attemptates for seuretee, conservacion, and stablisshement of þe saide trewes.
e
- (1467-8) RParl.5.622b : His seid Highnes had laboured a Stablisshement and Peas in his owne Reame, and also he had concluded with the Kyng of Spayne a Liege and perpetuell Pease.