Obs. Altered form of SUMPTER after words in -URE.
1608. Chapman, Byron’s Conspir., III. i. Endure this, and be turnd into his Moile To beare his sumptures.
1648. J. Beaumont, Psyche, VII. cclviii. Their sumptures now they hastily provide, Though yet uncertain which way they should tend.
1649. Jer. Taylor, Gt. Exemp., II. Disc. xi. § 7. To … load their sumptures stil the more by how much their way is shorter.
1706. J. Stevens, Sp. Dict., Repostéro … a Sumpture cloth. Ibid. (1707), trans. Quevedo’s Com., Wks. (1709), 383. We have no Tidings of our Sumptures and Carriages.
