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miniment

miniment is the obsolete form of muniment.

Meaning of muniment

Noun

muniment (plural muniments)

  1. A deed, or other official document kept as proof of ownership or rights or privileges; an archived document.
    • hauing the said deedes, euidences, muniments, terriers, and writinges in their hands[…]1594, William West, Symboleography […]
  2. (in plural, obsolete) Things which a person or place is equipped with; effects, furnishings, accoutrements.
    • Vpon a day as ſhe him ſate beſide, / By chance he certaine miniments forth drew, / Which yet with him as relickes did abide / Of all the bounty which Belphebe threw / On him, whilſt goodly grace ſhe did him ſhew: […]1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene: Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, London: Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, →OCLC, book IV, canto VIII, stanza VI
  3. (obsolete) Something used as a defence.
    • other muniments and petty helpsc. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Forms of miniment

pluralminiments

Questions about miniment

What is miniment the obsolete form of?
Miniment is the obsolete form of muniment.

Words near miniment in the dictionary

  1. minimaxed
  2. minimaxes
  3. minimaxing
  4. Minimay
  5. Minimbah
  6. miniment
  7. miniments
  8. minimetropolis
  9. minimetropolises
  10. minimi
  11. minimicrophone

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