premunire

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English

Noun

premunire (plural premunires)

  1. Alternative form of praemunire.

Verb

premunire (third-person singular simple present premunires, present participle premuniring, simple past and past participle premunired)

  1. Alternative form of praemunire.
    • 1664, , A Faithful Testimony for God & My Country, or, a Retro-Spective Glass for the Legislators and the Rest of the Sons of the Church of England (So Called), Who Are Found Persecuting the Innocent, London: the author, page 8:
      But instead of receiving any manner of Justice, most rediculously and impertinantly was the Oath of Allegiance, imposed as a Snare upon them; for refusal whereof they were forthwith premunired, and their Estates and Liberties in this horrid manner rap’d from them.
    • 1722, William Sewel, The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers, Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrences. Written Originally in Low-Dutch by William Sewel, and by Himself Translated into English. Now Revis'd and Publish'd, with some Amendments, rev. edition, London: Printed by the Assigns of J. Sowle, at the Bible in George-Yard, Lombard-Street, →OCLC, page 476:
      A Thief having ſtoln two Beaſts from one of thoſe called Quakers, was impriſoned: But ſome body having informed the Judge that the Man that proſecuted was a Quaker, and he (the Judge) perceiving that he would not ſwear, would not hear what the Man could ſay, but tender'd him the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, which the ſaid Quaker refuſing, the Judge premunired him, and let the thief go free.
    • 1844, William Evans, Thomas Evans, editors, The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other Writings of Members of the Religious Society of Friends, volume VIII, Philadelphia, Penn.: Printed for William and Thomas Evans, by Joseph Rakestraw, →OCLC, page 352:
      Besides in this case of our premunired friends, if the king had not re-conveyed their estates as he did, by his letters patent – under the great seal of England, – from him and his heirs, to them and their heirs, they had remained forfeited, and liable to future claims, and the proper owners to be dispossessed thereof []

Italian

Etymology

From pre- (pre-) +‎ munire (to fortify, equip; to man a ship).

Verb

premunìre (first-person singular present premunìsco, first-person singular past historic premunìi, past participle premunìto, auxiliary avére)

  1. to protect, fortify

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • premunirsi (to protect oneself (from); to guard oneself (against); to arm oneself (with))