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resignere, resingner, resygner

FEW: resignare 10,298a Gdf: ∅ GdfC: resigner 10,556b TL: resigner 8,1015 DEAF: resigner DMF: résigner TLF: résigner OED: resign v.1 / resigne a. MED: resignen v. / resigne a. DMLBS: resignare 2794b

For the unusual zoological sense ‘(of a stag) summed’, see the OED’s etymology of resigne a.: ‘The animal is so called because it is thought to be resigned, i.e. has no more expectations, with respect to the future growth of its antlers’ (Third Edition, 2010).

v.trans.1to relinquish, withdraw formally from (a right or claim) 2to resign from, vacate (an office or benefice)
v.intrans.to resign, vacate one's office or benefice
p.p. as a.(of a stag) summed, having fully developed antlers

v.trans.

1lawto relinquish, withdraw formally from (a right or claim):

( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv^1/4 ) Paroles qe sunt dites de terres resygner, Des homages rendre, de seygnur refuser Ly roys Phelippe resçoyt LANGTOFT thiol² 277.500

( 1340 ) granta, relessa, resigna et quiteclama tot le dreit q'il avoit YBB 14-15 Ed III 127

( 1397 ) ne voillent [...] resigner et renuncier touz tieles exempcions, assignacions et degree d’escole Rot Parl¹ iii 342

( 1400 ) coment il resignera[it] la corone Deposition 267

2law eccl.to resign from, vacate (an office or benefice):

( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv^1/4 ) Roger respount qe de si leger Ne quidera son office ilokes resigner LANGTOFT thiol² 384.1468

( s.xiv^1/4 ) mesme cestui persone resigna la eglise, par quel resignement la eglise etc. Nov Narr 45.B48

( 1392 ) Thomas deust avoir resigné la vicarie de mesme l'esglise King’s Council Ireland 44

( 1399 ) feust [...] compellé de resigner sa dite esglise Rot Parl¹ iii 444

resigner a

1to give, hand over:

( MS: s.xiv ) Cest livere resingna frere Jordan de Kyngestone a la commune de freres menurs de Suthampton par la volenté et le graunt frere Willame de Notingham Jerarchie 78

♦lawto relinquish, surrender to:

( s.xiv^2/3; MS: s.xiv^ex ) il vist qe ne poait aultrement faire si assenti, et resigna a lui la corone Brut Prose (1332) 6041

( 1327-77 ) par force, manace de emprisonement, et autres duresces, lui fist resigner la dite chapele contre son gré Rot Parl¹ ii 407

( 1400 ) issi resigna il al duk de Lankastre tout le droit q'il avoit en la corone Deposition 267

2to return, restore to:

( s.xiii^4/4; MS: 1307-15 ) Sire, ceste croce a tei resignerai; Tu la me donas, a tei le bauderai Reis Engl¹ 148.27

v.intrans.

lawto resign, vacate one's office or benefice:

( 1293 ) En grantet vous ceo ke nostre auncestre presenta A., ky resingna YBB 21-22 Ed I 141

( 1318 ) il ne ly put mye deveer (=prevent) de resignere YBB Ed II xxii 311

( 1319 ) Vous avez resigné, par taunt abatu vostre bref demene YBB Ed II xxv 46

( 1327 ) cely vostre clerk a resigné et renuncé al dreit q'il avoit en cele eglise Rot Parl² 110

p.p. as a.

zool.(of a stag) summed, having fully developed antlers:

( s.xiv^1/4; MS: s.xiv² ) ‘Et purquoi, sire venour, le appellez vous cerf resigné?’ ‘Pur ceo que il est cerf resigné de teste, que la teste ne li crest nent plus’ TWITI² 64

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