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Peine vs Peise - What's the difference?

peine | peise |

As nouns the difference between peine and peise

is that peine is pain or punishment while peise is a weight; a poise.

As a verb peise is

to weigh or measure the weight of; to poise.

peine

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (legal) Pain or punishment.

    • Usage notes

    This is only used in common law legal contexts, as part of (Law French), most often in the phrase .

    Derived terms

    * peine forte et dure English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----

    peise

    English

    Verb

  • To weigh or measure the weight of; to poise.
  • (figuratively) To weigh or take the measure of (an immaterial object).

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A weight; a poise.
  • (obsolete) A heavy blow, an impact.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
  • *:Great Ptolomæe it for his lemans sake / Ybuilded all of glasse, by Magicke powre, / And also it impregnable did make; / Yet when his loue was false, he with a peaze it brake.

    • Quotations

    * "To weigh pence with a peise." -

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary *