warrantise
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English warantise, warantyse, from Old Northern French warentise, warandise. Compare Old French garantise. See warrant, guarantee.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
warrantise
- (obsolete) authority; security; warranty
- 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:
- There is such strength and warrantise of skill
Verb edit
warrantise (third-person singular simple present warrantises, present participle warrantising, simple past and past participle warrantised)
- (obsolete) To warrant.
- 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
- hoping your worships wil not onely accept this my labour, but protect and warrantise the same against all men
References edit
“warrantise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.