Middle English Dictionary Entry
certificāt n.
Entry Info
| Forms | certificāt n. |
| Etymology | L ppl.; also OF. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Official statement as to fact; formal testimony or guarantee; certification.
Associated quotations
- (c1419) Proc.Privy C.2.258 : This clayme myght not be don if it were so claymed with owt certificat or assent of Florentyns dwellyng in this land.
- (1430-1) RParl.4.376a : Ye same ordinarie wold certifie ye saide Alianore, wyf to James, mulire; the whiche certificate so hadde and made, shulde..utterly disherit ye saide Suppliauntz.
- (1435) RParl.4.487b : To certefie to your Collectours of the seide Taxe..by force of the same Certificat.
- (1447-8) Shillingford128 : They..never made certificat ne retorne into the Kyngys Court other wyse..bot accordyng to their title of prescripcion.
- (1449) RParl.5.145b : That all such profe..be certified in to youre Chauncery of Recorde..aftir suche Certificate made.
- (1450) Paston2.158 : Your counseyll fereth he wolde take an issue that he is not professed, and that shuld be tried by the certificat of the Dean of Poules, sede vacante.
- (?1463) Paston (Gairdner)4.76 : If ye certifie that ye toke the examinacion..your certificat is sufficiant in lawe.
- (1472) Paston (Gairdner)5.161 : Send for the shereffes debute to wete how thei be disposid for certificate of the knyghtes.
2.
A document of certification, a certificate; an official report or return; lettre of ~.
Associated quotations
- (1439) Case King Council in Seld.Soc.35105 : It was asked him yif he hadde sette his seel unto the certificat that was yeue.
- (1442) Doc.Ireland in RS 69285 : So I haue dooun, as it appereth more fully by my certificate þerof sent unto youer Highnesse vnder ye oon part of youer grete seal of Irlande.
- (a1443) *Proc.Chanc.PRO ser.C 1 file 9no.385 : Forgen and maken an vntrewe certificat.
- (1447) Shillingford17 : A letter of certificatt from John Shillingford, Maior, of his doinges at London.
- (1452) Doc.in HMC Var.Col.4201 : That alle constables..bringe in ther certeficates atte the sessions of the pees.
- (1456) Doc.in Gilbert Cal.Dublin 1291 : Tyll..thay bryng a sertificat [of] contynuall residence and abydyng.
- (1464) Let.Ormond in Fortescue Works24 : The quenes certificat..shulle be to you swerte sufficiant.
- (1472) Paston (Gairdner)5.160 : It was lete me to wete..that the eleccion of the knyghtes of the shire shuld be chaunged, and new certificat mad.