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amortizer (1371)
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amortizer (1371)

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amortiser,  amorteiser  (amortesier  Affairs of Ireland 241)  
  FEW:  *admortire 24,175a Gdf:  admortizer 1,106c GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  amortir (amortiser)  DMF:  amortiser  TLF: ∅ OED:  amortize v.  MED:  amortisen v.  DMLBS:  admortizare 33b

v.trans.

lawto amortize, alienate in mortmain: 
( 1371 )  fuist l’entent del dit purchas tiel d’avoir pursuy au Roi de le avoir amorteisé en eyde de trover un chapeleyn en la dit mesoun  Drapers i 202
( 1383-84 )  les ditz manoirs […] seroient amortisez as ditz dean & chanoignes  Rot Parl1 iii 179
( 1415 )  paiant pur ycell la residue de noz dettes […] pour les amortizer au maistre et chapellains du college d’Arundell  Reg Chich ii 72

See also:

amortir 
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