preparement

plural preparements

1. countableuncountablePreparation.

   collidge preparement

   17th or 18th century, a law of the original Massachusetts Colony; quoted in Eric Sloane, The Little Red Schoolhouse, 1972

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   Whose highness, so far off by distance of place, so endued with felicity which oftentimes might cause oblivion, and continually busied with manifold weighty matters concerning the governance of his realm, yet nevertheless among such exceeding occasions of impediment, hath never suffered the remembrance of your grace to be absent from his heart, as well appeareth by his liberal readiness always in a preparement with diligent succour to condescend unto your necessities, not only in things behoveable to the use of this mortal life, but also with godly advertisement to the increase of your immortal felicity, for the which his highness looketh no further recompense than furtherance of your honour, corresponding to the nobility of your estate, agreeable with God’s laws, which in this life he accounteth his chief glory, delight, and comfort.

   a. 1541, letter to Margaret Tudor; quoted in Mary Anne Everett Green, “Margaret, Eldest Daughter of Henry VII.”, in Lives of the Princesses of England, from the Norman Conquest, volume IV, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longman, & Roberts, 1857, pages 472–473

   To the mount of Cethro, wher Venus doth dwel / The preparement made is so farre exceding / That of such triumphe no storyes doth tel / That is aboue al other so farre transcending / And for the whyle, she had me by copying / Of these complayntes which doth folow / And after that I should know the matter thorow

   [1563?], The Courte of Venus. Newly and Diligently Corrected with Many Proper Ballades Newly Amended, and Also Added Thervnto Which Haue Not Before Bene Imprinted., [London]: [T. Marshe], folios 2, verso – 3, recto

   3. Of which matter the sacred Counsell of Trent entreating determineth & maketh remonstrance, how faith inciteth a person offendant to al such vertuous preparements, as are required to his perfecte iustification, & remission of his sinnes:[…]

   1615, Edward Weston, The Triall of Christian Truht, by the Rules of the Vertues, Namelie These Principall, Faith, Hope, Charitie, and Religion: Seruing for the Discouerie of Heresie, and Antichrist, in His Forerunners and Misteries of Iniquitie. The Second Parte, Entreating of Hope. Wherein Is Made manifest, That the Pretended Hope of the Protestant, Empeaching the Merits of Christ, His Holy Grace, and Man His Vertuouse Life, Destroyeth All True Confidence in Allmightie God, Either Exceding in Presumption, or Wanting in Desperation., Doway: […] the Widdow of Laurence Kellam, […] , page 21

   His feare in him begets delay, and delay breedes that he feares, danger: the souldier that dares not fight, affoords the Enemie too much aduantage for his preparement;

   [1623?], Owin Felltham, Resolues Diuine, Morall Politicall, London: […] [George Purslowe] for Henry Seile, page 126

   better maintenance and preparement

   1814, Cutliff Harmon deeding sixty-four acres of land; quoted in Betty N. Smith, Jane Hicks Gentry: A Singer Among Singers, 1998, page 15