Obs. exc. arch. Forms: 4–5 warantize, 4–6 -ise, 5 warentice, warantyce, -ice, 5–6 -yse, warauntyse, -ise, 6 warrauntise, warrantyse, 6–7 -ize, -ice, 7 -is, 6–7, 9 -ise. [a. OF. warentise, garantise, f. warantir, garantir WARRANT v. Cf. WARRANDISE.]
1. Law. = WARRANTY 1 a. Phr. clause of warrantise (also used fig.); plea of warrantise.
a. 1325. MS. Rawl. B. 520, lf. 57. Ȝif he habbe þe kinges chartre ware þoru þe king be i holde to warantise. Ibid., 62 b. Ȝif þe aloinaunce were i mad þoru fin i mad. þanne a sullen boþe ben i cleped to warantise þer of.
1396–7. in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1907), XXII. 301. For a busschel of qwete … he welen selle þe blisse of heuene be chartre of clause of warantise.
14[?]. Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866), 24. And yf thou may in any wyse Make thy chartyr on warantyse To thyne heyres & assygnes all-so, This shall a wyse purchasser doo.
c. 1450. Godstow Reg., 265. Wherof a ple of warantize was I-take bitwene them in the same courte.
1495. Act 11 Hen. VII., c. 42. With a Clause of Warantise accordyng to þe seid dede.
1544. trans. Littleton’s Tenures, 131. Yt tenaunt in the tayle in this case release to the dysseasour & byndeth him and his heyres to warrantyse, &c.
1559. Boke Presidentes, 40 b. A release made by deede of tenementes before purchased with a clause of warrantise.
1627. J. Carter, Plain Expos., 93. A clause of warrantize against all danger.
2. gen. The action of warranting, guaranteeing or giving assurance; the state or fact of being guaranteed. Phr. to hold, clepe, bind, call to warrantise: on, with, by warrantise.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 516/1. Warantyse, warantizacio.
1534. More, Comf. agst. Trib., III. xvii. (1553), Q vij b. Withoute anye bolde warrantise of oure selfe, or foolishe truste in oure strength.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Luke iii. 21, 22. A doue … had … brought a braunche of an oliue tree … for … a caucion or pledge of warauntise yt the floude was at an ende.
1551. Robinson, trans. More’s Utopia, II. (1895), 171. In so doyng they neuer followe the credence of pryuat men, but the assureaunce or warrauntise of the hole citye.
1565. Cooper, Thesaurus, Amphoteroplon, a double freight or dutie, that is payed, when the shippeman vndertaketh on warantyse to conducte a man salfe foorth, and brynge him salfe home agayne.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., III. 128. The Butchers that bye for slaughter, and such as by for sacryfises, vse no worde of warrantise.
1583. Fulke, Def. Tr. Script., i. 42. They doe the better proue, that for which I called him to warrantize.
c. 1600. Shaks., Sonn., cl. 7. In the very refuse of thy deeds, There is such strength and warrantise of skill, That in my minde thy worst all best exceeds?
1601. Holland, Pliny, XXXIII. iii. II. 462. All buyings and sellings at this day which passe with warrantise [L. in his emptionibus, quae mancipii sunt].
1608. Dod & Cleaver, Expos. Prov. ix.–x. 5. He giuing warrantize for their safety.
1862. Sir H. Taylor, St. Clement’s Eve, III. v. 109. We humbly crave Some warrantise that what we’re bid to speak, Spoken, shall bring no jeopardy of life Or liberty or goods.
b. To make (also give) warrantise: to guarantee, give assurance. Const. of or clause.
1534. More, Comf. agst. Trib., III. xvii. (1553), Q vj. I can make no warrantise of my selfe, seing yt S. Peter so sodainly fainted at a womans word.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 296. Talke that … maketh ioyly royall warantise of thynges in wordes, but without any effecte or comyng to passe of deedes.
1577–87. Holinshed, Chron., III. 58/1. But whether it were so or not, I am not able to make warrantize.
1601. Munday & Chettle, Death Robt. Earl Huntingdon [IV. ii.] I 3. Againe, the place doth giue thee warrantise.
c. Said predicatively of a thing or person that serves as a guarantee or surety.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 25604. Þat we mai tak þat ilk flexs … Wit bodi and hert clene: And þat it be vr warantise, On domesdai quen þou sal rise, Al þis werld to deme.
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., I. iii. 13. Breake vp the Gates, Ile be your warrantize.
1596. Earl of Essex, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. III. IV. 134. His assent … shalbe my warrantize.
d. Phr. Of, on, in warrantise: of a surety, for certain, without fail, I warrant you.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 137. Of warantise he shal nevir the.
c. 1440. Generydes, 5938. Ther shall no man do yow harme o warantise.
a. 1500. E. E. Misc. (1855), 91. Thanne ȝour crymsons beth y-made in warantyse withowte fayle.
a. 1500. Assemb. Ladies, 406. I pray you, tel it me in secret wyse; And I shal kepe it close, on warantyse.
c. 1550. Lloyd, Treas. Health, C 4. Put into thyne eye a verey litle, it is safe and without danger in warrantise and ofte approved.
1592. Wyrley, Armorie, 29. No mortall man with Gods gaine fauor might Of warrantice to see next mornings light.
1639. O. Wood, Alph. Bk. Secrets, 29. Then … anoynt the Griefe with a feather,… and it will be whole on warrantice.
3. Defence, protection.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 1614. That they be weisely wachede and in warde holdene, Wardede of warantizez with wyrchipfulle knyghttez.
1481. Caxton, Godfrey, xvii. 45. Alle the peple of the contre … made to hym feaulte for to haue his ayde and warantise in the waye of the sayd pylgremage. Ibid. (1489), Faytes of A., II. xxxv. 149. No manere of warantyse can not kepe theym that assaylle yf they be hytte with all, but that they shal be beten doune as the thondre felle upon hem.
4. Authorization, permission, sanction.
1580. Grindal, Lett. to Ld. Burleigh, Wks. (1843), 366. Dr Howland … added further, that if error were committed in that, it was no sufficient warrantize for other errors afterwards to be attempted.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XXII. vi. II. 118. Yet we … are so unhappie, as to commit our selves to other mens tuition, and live under their warrantize and assurance [L. vivimus aliena fiducia].
1602. Shaks., Ham., V. i. 250. Her Obsequies haue bin as farre inlarg’d, As we haue warrantis.
1606. Whetenhall, Discov. Abuses Ch. Christ, 66. A Bishop ought to doe nothing in the Church, unlesse he be certaine and sure of the warrantise thereof by Gods word.
a. 1624. Bp. M. Smith, Serm. (1632), 234. Lest the yonger sort take example, nay warrantize from vs to slacke their paines.
5. Assurance, confident statement.
1586. A. Day, Engl. Secretorie, I. (1625), 78. Too much impertinent were it for me to hale you on with arguments who onely goe about to persuade you with warrantise.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XXVIII. vii. II. 310. Thus they prescribe with great warrantize, To take all the naile parings of toes and fingers of man, [etc.].
