Termer vs Termes - What's the difference?
termer | termes |
(legal) One who has an estate for a term of years or for life.
(obsolete) One who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to practise tricks, to carry on intrigues, or the like.
A (l).
* 1781 , (Henry Smeathman) in (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society) LXXI, page 160:
* 1800 , The Asiatic Annual Register , page 5/2:
* 1834 , (Thomas Pringle), African Sketches , chapter viii, page 287:
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As a noun termer
is (legal) one who has an estate for a term of years or for life.As a proper noun termes is
.termer
English
Alternative forms
* termorNoun
(en noun)- (Ben Jonson)
termes
English
Noun
(termites)- These turret nests, built by two different species of Termites .
- The termes , or what is called the white ant, infests this island.
- The termes of South Africa is not the destructive species.
Derived terms
* (l)References
* “?Termes]” on page 203/2 of § 2 (T–Th, ed. ) of part ii (Su–Th) of volume IX (Si–Th, 1919) of [[w:Oxford English Dictionary, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles](1st ed.) * “
?termes” in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed., 1989) ----