Obs. rare. [Seems to represent OE. wǽr pledge; the form may have been assimilated to warant WARRANT sb.] In the phrase to ware (trans. L. ad warantiam, ad warantizandum); as a surety.
c. 1460. Oseney Reg., 166. Anoþer tyme þabbot i-callid þere-of to ware Richard of lyonns And Emme his wife, Raph the Soone of Ranulph of Astrop and William his wife [etc.], the which nowe come by summornenyng and axe to be schewed to þem by what thyng þey bee holde to ware [warantizare]. Ibid. Þe which … Byndeth hym-selfe and his heyres to ware, to þe same Nycoll and to his heyres and to his assynes, þe foresaide tenementes.
