warrantise

English

Etymology

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

Noun

warrantise

  1. (obsolete) authority; security; warranty
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Verb

warrantise (third-person singular simple present warrantises, present participle warrantising, simple past and past participle warrantised)

  1. (obsolete) To warrant.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for warrantise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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