rerage
English edit
Etymology edit
Either aphetic form of arrearage; or directly from Late Latin reragium or its likely source, Anglo-Norman arerage.
Noun edit
rerage (plural rerages)
- (obsolete) Money owed; overdue payment. [14th–17th c.]
- c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London, published 1846:
- Also the duke of Burbone shall have his duchye and seniories and lordships agayne as he had before, and the kynge shall gyve to the duke all his rerages and customes that is growne or rune unto hym [...].
- (obsolete) The state of being in debt. [15th–17th c.]
Descendants edit
- Irish: riaráiste