munimentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Anglo-Norman muniment, Middle French muniment, and their source, Latin mūnīmentum (“fortification, defence”), from mūnīre (“to fortify”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmjuːnɪmənt/

名詞

muniment (複数形 muniments)

1. (chiefly law) A deed, or other official document kept as proof of ownership or rights or privileges; an archived document. [from 15th c.]
   • 1594, William West, Symboleography […] :

     hauing the said deedes, euidences, muniments, terriers, and writinges in their hands […]

   • 1966, Jerusalem Bible, Ezra 6:1, London: Darton, Longman & Todd:

     Then, on the order of King Darius, a search was made in Babylonia in the muniment rooms where the archives were kept […]

2. (obsolete, in the plural) Things which a person or place is equipped with; effects, furnishings, accoutrements. [15th-19th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene: Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, London: Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 932900760, book IV, canto VIII, stanza VI:

     Vpon a day as ſhe him ſate beſide, / By chance he certaine miniments forth drew, / Which yet with him as relickes did abide / Of all the bounty which Belphebe threw / On him, whilſt goodly grace ſhe did him ſhew: […]

3. (obsolete) Something used as a defence. [16th-19th c.]
   • c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:

     other muniments and petty helps