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Amort [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In the state of the dead.

Amort [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

As if dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed.

Amortisable [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Amortisement

Amortisation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Amortisement

Amortise [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Amortisement

Amortisement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Amortize, Amortization, etc.

Amortizable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being cleared off, as a debt.

Amortization [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The act or right of alienating lands or tenements to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, as such alienations were mostly made to religious houses for superstitious uses.

Amortization [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain.

2. The extinction of a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund; also, the money thus paid.

Amortize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In English law, to alienate in mortmain, that is, to sell to a corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal, and their successors. This was considered as selling to dead hands. This cannot be done without the kings license. [ See Mortmain .]

Amortize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make as if dead; to destroy.

2. To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain.

3. To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund.

Amortizement [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

AMORTIZA'TION or AMORT'IZEMENT, noun The act or right of alienating lands or tenements to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, as such alienations were mostly made to religious houses for superstitious uses.

Amortizement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Amortization.