v. Obs. ? ‘To promote caution in anything’ (Latham); ? to take ‘caution’ or security of, to render cautionary (cf. CAUTIONARY 1).
But it may be a misprint for cantonize, the reading in ed. 1638: ed. 1631 (the first ed. of the Continuation), and ed. 1687, II. 974, however, have cautionize.
1631. Contn. Knolles’ Hist. Turks, 1414. At Bagdat the captaine of the Ianizaries rose and slew the Bassa, burnt the Mufti and all his kinne, and gaue his daughter in marriage to one Aslan Begh, a pretender to the antient inheritance of a bordering prouince, to cautionize that part.
1690. G. Topham, Pharísaism Display’d, 17. I thinkk ’tis the Duty of every one of us, in our several Places and Cures, to Cautionize our People to beware of them.
