Amortizing, -ising

vbl. sb. [f. AMORTIZE v. + -ING¹.] The conveying to mortmain.

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c. 1377. Wyclif, Poor Priests, Wks. xix. (1879), 278. Þe sotil amortasynge of seculer lordischipis.

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1530. Proper Dyaloge (1863), 26. So after the amortesyenge occupyeth y^e clarcke.

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1618. Pulton, trans. Act 27 Edw. I. (1632), 78. Enquests impanelled for the amortizing Lands or Tenements.

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