ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Premunire

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Premunire is a noun meaning Alternative form of praemunire.

Meaning

Alternative form of praemunire.

Example Sentences

But instead of receiving any manner of Justice, most rediculously and impertinantly was the Oath of Allegiance, imposed as a Snare upon them; for refusal whereof they were forthwith premunired, and their Estates and Liberties in this horrid manner rap’d from them.
Besides in this case of our premunired friends, if the king had not re-conveyed their estates as he did, by his letters patent – under the great seal of England, – from him and his heirs, to them and their heirs, they had remained forfeited, and liable to future claims, and the proper owners to be dispossessed thereof […]
A Thief having ſtoln two Beaſts from one of thoſe called Quakers, was impriſoned: But ſome body having informed the Judge that the Man that proſecuted was a Quaker, and he (the Judge) perceiving that he would not ſwear, would not hear what the Man could ſay, but tender'd him the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, which the ſaid Quaker refuſing, the Judge premunired him, and let the thief go free.

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Related dictionary entries include praemunire, pourpresture, precipe, praecipe, pone, mainprise.

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