5–; 5–6 articule, artycule, -cle. [f. prec.]
† 1. trans. To formulate in articles, particularize, specify; with clause, To state that. Obs.
c. 1450. Paper Roll, in 3rd Rep. R. Com. Hist. MSS., 279/1. The seid duke articled that after that he was come oute of prisone into England … he went to Caleys.
1494. Fabyan, VII. 567. It shuld haue ben set out and articuled, euery act therof.
a. 1581. Campion, Hist. Irel., II. x. (1633), 135. Lay your heads together, and article the points.
1592. Warner, Alb. Eng., VIII. xli. And daerst thou Minion, quoth the Queene, thus article to me That thou wert Non-plus.
2. To set forth (offences) in articles against (a person).
1494. Fabyan, Rich. II., an. 1388 (R.). These iniuryes and many moo … were artyculed agayne hym in .xxxviii. sundry artycles.
1650. Jer. Taylor, Holy Living (1727), 92. All his errors and follies were articled against him.
a. 1700. Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1848), 211. They would article against him, whatever they could accuse him of.
1883. Law Rep., Probate, VIII. 196. The offences articled against him were committed whilst he was incumbent of St. Alban’s, Holborn.
3. absol. To bring charges, make specific accusations against. (Also with compound passive.)
1530. Palsgr., 437/1. He hath artycled agaynst you other wyse than you wene of.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xxii. 56. The Lords … began forthwith to enuy and article against the Protector.
1648. Prynne, Plea for Lords, 41. They were … articled against, at the command of the the Lords.
1655. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., I. § 3 (1669), 62/1. He is a bold man sure that dare find fault with God, and article against Heaven.
1697. C. Leslie, Snake in Grass (ed. 2), 254. John Story, Wilkinson, &c. were Cursed and Excommunicated for refusing to submit to this Ordinance, and Articl’d against for so much as allowing Liberty of Conscience to any Quaker to Pay Tythes.
4. trans. To indict, charge with specific offences.
a. 1604. Hanmer, Chron. Irel., 167. Articling, accusing, and disgracing one another.
1868. Times, 30 April, 12/6. The defendant had not obeyed the monition of his ordinary, and had been articled for an ecclesiastical offence.
† 5. To arrange by treaty, or stipulations.
a. trans. Obs.
1447–8. Shillingford, Lett. (1871), 97. After the manner and fourme that the saide Mayer and Commenalte have articled.
1580. North, Plutarch (1676), 124. In which parly it was articled, that the Romans should pay a thousand pound weight of gold.
1600. Holland, Livy, 1014 (R.). Antiochus himselfe, with whom Scipio had articled peace and alliance.
1682. Evats, Grotius’ War & Peace, 93–4. It was of old Articled between the Kings bordering on the Red Sea and the Egyptians, that the Egyptians should not come into that Sea with any long Ship, or with above one Ship of Burden.
† b. intr. or with subord. clause or inf. Obs.
1526. Wolsey, in Strype, Eccl. Mem., I. v. 65. The King of England articled to make war upon the Emperors.
1627. May, Lucan, IV. 260. Whilest we are articling Basely about thy safety.
1705. J. Logan, in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem., X. 55. The only secure way will be to article positively.
1762. H. Walpole, Vertue’s Anecd. Paint. (1786), I. 51. Another indenture of 1338 … articles, that the workman should have six-pence a foot for white glass.
† c. const. with (a person). Obs.
1611. Beaum. & Fl., Philaster, IV. 33. He Articles with the gods.
1639. W. Cartwright, Royall Slave, V. iii. Must we be articled with by our women?
1645. Symonds, Diary (1859), 278. The governour for his owne security had articled with the enemy.
a. 1705. Howe, Self-ded., Wks. 1810, I. 480. God is pleased to article with dust and ashes.
1764. Wesley, Wks. (1872), XII. 243. I will article with them to do so.
† d. const. for (a thing). Obs.
1656. Bramhall, Replic., ii. 94. They articled for the free exercise of the Greek Religion.
1770. Langhorne, Plutarch’s Lives (1879), I. 491/1. Pausanias wanted a truce, that he might article for the dead.
6. trans. To bind by articles of apprenticeship.
1820. W. Irving, Sketch Bk., II. 161. Their brother too, who had been articled to an attorney.
7. To furnish with articles (of faith). rare.
1826. E. Irving, Babylon, II. VIII. 265. And the doctrines by which our fathers articled the Church, are become unapproachably high.
