moietieとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

moietie (複数形 moieties)

1. Obsolete spelling of moiety.
   • 1634, “Chap[ter] XXII. An Act to Repeal a Statute, Made in the Twelfth Yeare of King Edward the Fourth, Concerning Bringing Bowes into This Realme.”, in Statues Passed in the Parliaments Held in Ireland, volume I (Containing from the Third Year of Edward the Second, A.D. 1310, to the Fourteenth かつ Fifteenth Years of Charles the Second, A.D. 1662, inclusive), Dublin: Printed by George Grierson, […], published 1794, OCLC 671598467, page 274:

     [E]very merchant and paſſenger, that brings merchandizes into this land of Ireland out of England to the ſumme of one hundred pounds, that he ſhall buy and bring with him into the ſaid land in bowes to the value of one hundred ſhillings, […] and if any merchant or paſſenger bring any merchandize into the ſaid land, and bring with him no bowes as is afore rehearſed, that the ſaid merchant ſhall loſe and pay the value of the ſaid bowes, the one moietie thereof to the King, and the other moiety to the ſearchers of the ſame for the time being; […]