warrantise

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/ˈwɒɹəntaɪz/

noun

authority; security; warranty

OriginMiddle English warantise ← Old Northern French warentise →
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Meanings

noun
  1. obsoleteauthority; security; warranty

    There is such strength and warrantise of skill

    1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 150”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
verbwarrantise (third-person singular simple present warrantises, present participle warrantising, simple past and past participle warrantised)

present singular third person warrantises · participle present warrantising · participle past warrantised · past warrantised

  1. obsoleteTo warrant.

    hoping your worships wil not onely accept this my labour, but protect and warrantise the same against all men

    1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Old Northern Frenchwarentise
  2. Middle Englishwarantise
  3. Englishwarrantise

From Middle English warantise, warantyse, from Old Northern French warentise, warandise. Compare Old French garantise. See warrant, guarantee.

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APA

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Chicago

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