Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Noumerit, Nomerit, Num(m)erit, ppl. a. Also: noumeryt, nowmerit, nowmert, nomeryt, numeryt, -ed, nwmeryt. [Noumer v.: cf. Nombrit.]

1. Of money or payment: a. Counted out in ready money; paid out in cash. b. In the form of ready money or specie, as opposed to money of account promissory notes, bonds or the like.Cf. Noumer v. 9 and L. numerātus (Numerat ppl. a. 2) in same sense.(a) 1492 Fam. Rose 158.
Twa hundret merkis of the vsual monee of Scotland in novmeryt siluer 1496 Acta Conc. II. 32.
[To] pay … ane hundreith pundis … of noumerit money … for the redemyng … of the saidis landis ? 15.. Aberd. B. Rec. MS. (Jam.).
Nowmert money 1564–75 Hamilton & Campsie Test. I. 22 b.
Into pois and nowmerit money ten lis. 1579 Edinb. Test. VII. 286 b.
In nowmerit money … xxij groittis … price of the pece ij s.(b) 1482 Reg. Morton II. 244.
Till hafe resavyt … full compt reknyng & payment in nomeryt mone of all maner intromyttyngis [etc.] 1508 Rentale Dunkeld. 2.
Resavit … a note of ane hundreth mark aucht … and in nomerit monye fyftene schillingis four penniis 1513 Reg. Privy S. I. 380/1.
The soume of [£2000] pait and deliverit to his grace in reddy nomerit money 1550 Cupar B. Rec. 17 Dec.(c) 1481 Buccleuch Mun. II. 76.
Numeryt 1493 Maxwell Mem. II. 204.
Ane certane sowme of gold … payt til ws in nwmeryt mone, that is to say ane hundreth pwndis of fyne golde … fyfty pwndis of ridaris [etc.] 1506 Liber Aberbr. II. 369.
To haue ressauit … the sovm of ane hundreth merkis of gude and vsuale numerit money of Scotlande 1556 Aberd. Council Lett. I. 2.
Numerit 1562 Edinb. B. Deeds 63 b.
The quhilk soume … compleitlie payit in nvmmerit money 1581 Rec. Earld. Orkney 302.
Numerit 1602 Ayr Chart. 137.
Numerit ? 1606 Inverurie B. Ct.
And protestit in respect of thair leall offer of the forsaid few maill in nummerit mone for twa ȝeiris immediatlie preceiding

2. Appar. (as e.m.E. numbred, ME. (Wyclif) noumbride), fixed in number (sc. of years or the like), reduced in number, limited, approaching a close. — 1604-31 Craig i. 32/24.
Why should the leaud and lasie asse to numered lyus be juge?