(a) A commandment regulating human conduct, precept; esp. a divine command or injunction; one of the Ten Commandments; a precept as distinguished from a counsel [cp. counseil 5. (e)]; a rule of……

Law Of a tithe: based on the amount of produce from an area of land. …

(a) A preconceived opinion, bias; withouten prejudice, without bias, impartially; (b) an expressed disfavor toward someone; disparagement, detraction; (c) despite, contempt; in prejudice of, in……

Law To injure or be detrimental to (sb.) with respect to a right, privilege, claim, etc.; impair the validity of (a privilege, claim, etc.). …

Pl. (a) Aforesaid matters, previously stated points; (b) preliminary plans, preparations; premis of the welcominge, preparations for the welcome. …

Law A writ summoning (sb.) to appear for contempt of the king's jurisdiction, so-called from the words 'premunire facias' which occur in the text of the writ. …

Law To order, make a ruling; set (sth.) down in law, prescribe. …

(a) Law Title or right acquired by virtue of uninterrupted possession or use for a period of time sufficient, according to law, to establish such claim; (b) sentence of exile, proscription [error for……

(a) The fact or state of being present; the fact of being together with someone or something; manere of presence, condition, present state; (b) with possessive pron. or of-phrase denoting the person……

(a) Eccl. Of a benefice: to which there is attached a right of presentation; (b) law liable to formal charge of wrongdoing. …

(a) The formal act or ceremony of dedicating an infant or a young child to God or to a pagan deity; also, the Christian Feast of the Presentation, Candlemas; (b) the formal induction of an elected……

(a) The act or fact of being present in a place or together with someone, presence; pl. presentes [?error for presence]; (b) pl. those who are present in a particular place; (c) in present, present……

(a) The act of presenting advice or instruction; (b) a document presented upon delivery of goods, an invoice; (c) eccl. the act of recommending or appointing a candidate to a benefice; nomination……

(a) To introduce (sb. or sth.) formally or ceremonially; present (a soul to God); also, induct (sb.) into office; presenten biforen (to), present (sb.) to (sb.); also refl. present oneself; (b) to……

(a) One who formally introduces a royal personage, (b) one who formally presents a letter of petition, a bearer; (c) one who presents or offers up something, a giver; (d) law one who brings a formal……

Law A writ commanding the recipient to perform an action or to show cause for its non-performance. …

(a) To press against (sth.); exert pressure, push, shove; -- with implied subject [quot.: c1430(c1386)]; (b) pressen on, to rest on (sth.); (c) to press (sth.) down; depress (the tongue); pressen to……

(a) Feigned, not genuine, sham; of miracles, etc.: asserted, without proof; (b) of a face: dissembling, deceiving; (c) of a moral law: urged as a justification or an excuse; (d) law formally declared……

(a) Observed or recorded evidence supporting a statement, an assertion, accusation, or a claim; a piece of such evidence; maken preve of, to give evidence of (sth.); (b) evidence such as instances……

(a) To test (sb.), put to the test, try, tempt; test (sb.) by attacking; -- also refl.; (b) to test (someone's heart, virtue, or other qualities); match (one's strength against God); (c) to test……

(a) To go, go on, move in a certain direction; continue in an action or process; follow (a way of life); proceden forth, go on, go ahead; (b) be hit proceded, let (the incision, ligature, ?procedure)……

(a) A sequence, succession, right order; progression; (b) bi (in) proces, in order, in turn; (c) a sequence of events, course of action, activity; an action, event; proceden bi proces, to continue on……

Law A person empowered to represent a minor in legal proceedings. …

(a) An act of offering or presenting a gift; an offer of a gift, money, reward, help, etc.; (b) an offer of battle, a challenge; a peace offer or proposal, an offer to surrender; fig. the Devil's……

(a) An order forbidding or prohibiting certain actions; a forbidding; also, the condemnation of a practice [quot.: ?a1475]; (b) the action of restraining blood from a wound; also, the action of……

(a) Protection, shelter, defense; keeping, guardianship; (b) the protection or maintenance which a lord or a patron provides a servant or retainer; patronage, sponsorship; -- also pl.; (c) law putten……

(a) Avowal, declaration; an avowal, allegation; maken (a, this) protestacioun, to avow, declare, acknowledge; (b) a condition, reservation; under protestacioun, upon the condition, with the……

(a) To declare, vow, acknowledge; (b) to vow (to do sth.); (c) law p. ppl. protest, declared to be in arrears or default, called. …

(a) Incitement, urging; (b) prayer for forgiveness, supplication; (c) med. & surg. the inducing of a bodily function; stimulation of the hemorrhoidal veins; (d) law an appeal, esp. to a higher court……

(a) To seek forgiveness of (God), supplicate; ppl. provoking, seeking or eliciting forgiveness; (b) law to appeal (a case to a higher authority). …

Law A royal or an official perambulation of a royal forest, a city, country, etc., to determine its bounds. …

(a) Acquisition, gain; also, something acquired or received, a possession; wealth, property, goods; fig. something possessed as a natural gift [quot.: Capgr.], something earned or deserved; ben of……

(a) Unadulterated, unmixed with anything, uncontaminated; pur of, cleansed of (dirt); (b) of metals: unalloyed, refined; of fur: all of one color; of wine: clear; also, undiluted; of medicines……

(a) Wholly, fully, completely; unreservedly, unconditionally; thoroughly; ne pureli, not at all, nor to any degree; (b) solely, exclusively, only; simply, merely; pureli and simpli, simpli and pureli……

(a) Cleansing; also, the scouring or refinement of metal; also, the purification of the philosopher's stone; (b) a disposal site, a garbage dump; (c) maken a purgacioun of, to dispose of (filth)……

Law An examination or interrogation in a court of law to clear a person of an accusation; vindication. …

(a) To purify or cleanse (sth.), make clean or pure; rid (the Church, the Temple, a town) of objectionable persons or things; (b) to purify (metal) by fire, refine; also fig.; scour (metal), remove……

(a) Law A share or division of property, esp. land, due to a person by inheritance; a portion of inherited property; (b) a portion, share; a part, division, or section on a map or in the sky; also……

law the surface or expressed meaning of a document, stipulation, etc. (sometimes contrasted with tenour, its true and essential meaning; sometimes perhaps more generally, the contents or substance of……

(a) Law An illegal occupation or encroachment upon land; unauthorized use of common, private, or royal land or of waterways, as by damming or diversion; (b) a payment or rent due to the legal owner of……

(a) To follow, go behind; go in pursuit in order to overtake; purseuen after, follow in pursuit; -- also, with prep. phr.: purseuen after, follow after (sb.); purseuen upon, follow upon (someone's……

(a) One who pursues with hostility, a pursuer; (b) one who persecutes, a persecutor; tormentor; enemy; (c) = pursevaunt n.; (d) a prosecutor; law one who brings a suit, a plaintiff, petitioner. …

(a) The act of giving chase, as in battle or in hunting, a going in pursuit; (b) the fact of being pursued with hostility; (c) the act of harassing; also, the act of persecuting; purseuing to deth……

(a) One who seeks (to do sth.), an aspirant; (b) law one who brings suit, a plaintiff; one who presents a petition; also fig. …

(a) The action of pursuing to overtake; a chase; (b) the action of pursuing with hostile intent; don pursuit ayenes, make pursuit after (sb.); maken pursuit on the chase, give chase; (c) the action of……

(a) Foresight; foreknowledge; foresightedness, prudence, wisdom; ben of god purveiaunce, to be prudent; ben of no purveiaunce, be improvident; (b) divine foreknowledge; divine providence or……

Law (a) That which is provided or enacted by a statute, the body or substance of an act; (b) a special provision within an act; clause of purveu, a provisional clause, proviso. …

(a) To push, shove, thrust; strike a blow, smite; putten with fet, trample, kick; putten with fet and hondes, thrust with feet and hands; putten ayen, push against (sb.); stumble against (sb.); putten……

(a) The action of striking or thrusting; (b) the action of pushing or shoving; the action of poking [quot.: Palladius]; putting of hete, pressure of heat; o peine of putting oute of eien, on pain of……

(a) Of an object: divided into four parts; (b) law of an indented document: written in four identical versions; (c) as noun: the Tetrabiblos of Ptolemy; also, a work dealing with four major sciences……

Law To relinquish one's right to (money, property, the performance of an obligation, a legal claim), quitclaim. …

Law A relinquishing to another of a legal right or interest in its entirety. …

Law A rent paid in discharge of services, quitrent. …

(a) Law A relinquishing to another of the entirety of alegal right or interest, esp. in real property; a deed of release, quitclaim deed; chartre of quite-claime; (b) gon quite-claime, to go free……

Law A rent paid by a tenant by which he is discharged of any other rent or service; also, a nominal rent or yielding of property reserved as a feudal acknowledgment of tenure. …

(a) A release from a debt, discharge of a debt; an act of releasing from prison; remission of sin; also, acquittal [quot.: c1443]; (b) compensation, recompense; requital, vengeance; (c) law an……

Law The senior justice or justices of the peace whose presence was necessary to constitute the court. …

Law A royal writ of inquiry to determine by what warrant a person held an office or franchise. …

(a) Real, actual, having physical existence; of a narrative: true, actual; (b) law pertaining to goods or property; also, sure, firm, definite; accioun real, a suit concerned with the specific goods……

(a) To relate events, describe; say (sth.), state, recount; -- sometimes with clause; ppl. recited, mentioned; (b) law to state (sth.) in a legal proceeding; -- sometimes with clause; (c) to offer up……

Law To resume possession of (land held by a tenant). …

(a) Knowledge, comprehension; haven a reconisaunce, to know, be informed; haven reconisaunce of, know (sth.), be familiar with; (b) an acknowledgment of subjection or allegiance (to God, the emperor……

Law One who enters into a recognizance. …

Remembrance or recollection of something; of record, in remembrance. …

(a) Recovery from illness, injury, poverty, misfortune, etc., relief; also, the power of or capacity for recovery; at no recover, in a weakened state; of hard recover, slow in recovering from an……

(a) To recover from sickness, injury, etc., regain health; of a bodily part: regain normal functions; recoveren of, recover from (an illness); (b) ben recovered, to recover from illness or injury, be……

(a) Relief from suffering or from the pain of hell; recovery; also, salvation; haven recoverer, to recover from defeat, rally; at no recoverer, having no power or chance to recover from defeat; (b)……

Law The act of gaining possession of property, income, money owed, etc. by legal action; haven recoveri ayen, ?to receive amends from (sb. for damage or harm committed). …

(a) Recovery from illness; restoration (of someone's health); (b) hope or chance of rallying in battle; (c) salvation; (d) help, assistance. …

(a) Recovery or relief from illness, distress, thirst, etc.; don recur, to provide relief; (b) a way out of adversity, distress, danger, etc.; recourse, remedy, help; -- also pl.; (c) withouten recur……

(a) To recover from illness, suffering in love, etc.; regain health; -- also refl.; recover from (a malady); recuren ayen; ben recured, be well or in a normal state again; (b) recuren of, to recover……

Law Obtaining of something claimed at law; recovery or collection of damages; haven recurer, to obtain something claimed at law; haven recurer ayenes, recover damages from (sb.). …

Law One who procures or contrives a murder. …

Law The official report by a sheriff that he has in custody a defendant who has surrendered himself so as to discharge his bailsmen. …

(a) Theol. Salvation, redemption; maken redempcioun, to effect redemption (of sb.); (b) moral reformation; (c) liberation from captivity or hell; also fig.; (d) deliverance from captivity or restraint……

Law (a) To call upon (sb.) to answer to a charge or an accusation, arraign; try (sb.); (b) to ask a question; reinen of, interrogate (sb.). …

(a) To lift up (sb. or sth.), hold up; engage in lifting and carrying [quot.: 1446]; reisen up; reisen eien, reisen up eie-sight, look up; reisen eres, of an elephant: stretch out the ears; reisen up……

(a) Law To annul (a judgment, an ordinance), overturn; (b) to eject (sb. from a council); set aside (sb.); debar (a son) from inheritance; ppl. rejecte as adj.: dismissed, cast out. …

Law A rejoinder. …

Law To reply a second time to (a plaintiff's charge or complaints), rejoin; -- also intr. …

Law Making a rejoinder; also, a rejoinder. …

(a) Abatement of distress, relief; a means of deliverance or assuagement; release from death or Hades; also, a temporary suspension of madness, a lucid interval [quot.: a1333, 2nd]; withouten reles……

To revoke (a decree, an interdict, agreement, etc.), cancel, lift; commute (a penalty), remit; override (a law) [quot.: a1402]. …

Law (a) A right of ownership (of land, rents, etc.) designated to devolve upon a second party when the right of the first grantee or legatee ceases; a remainder; (b) ?the postponement of a legal……

Law Of a right of ownership: to devolve upon a second party when the right of the first legatee ceases; remaindren to, devolve upon (sb.). …

Law = remaindre n. (a). …

(a) Exception, waiver; (b) Law A transfer of property, ?quitclaim. …

(a) Release from duty or obligation; freeing of captives; Bibl. dai of remissioun, a holiday from work; yer of remissioun, a Jubilee year; also, a Sabbatical year; don (maken) remissioun, to grant……

Law ?A letter or brief in response to a decision; ?an appeal. …

Law Restoration of a more valid title to certain property; for peril of a remitter, for fear that the estate be restored to one with a clearer title. …

Law The formal surrender of a property claim, a quitclaim. …

(a) Revenue from property, income; also fig.; (b) a source of revenue or income, property yielding revenue; -- usu. pl.; lond and (or) rent, rent and lond, londes and (ne, other) rentes; (c) wealth……

Law A counter-argument made by the plaintiff to the defendant's rebuttal, = replicacioun n., sense (b). …

(a) To repel (sb. or sth.), repulse; resist (fate); drive away (evil, a vice); also, quench (thirst); repellen of, drive off (darkness); (b) to refuse (a request); reject (an argument); reject……

Law A counter-argument made by the plaintiff to the defendant's rebuttal, = replicacioun n., sense (b). …

Law Eligible for bail. …

Law A writ of replevin. …

(a) Law A legal process for the temporary restoration of confiscated property pending a court hearing; also, the restoration of privileges; (b) a writ of replevin. …

Law Of confiscated property: restored by replevin. …

Law The restoration of confiscated property. …