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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Mainprise

· Main·prise · IPA
01 n. A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at la…
  1. 1.
    A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large. This writ is now obsolete.(Law)
02 v. t. To suffer to go at large, on his finding sureties, or mainpernors, for his appearance at a day; -- said of a prisoner.
imp. & p. p. Mainprised; p. pr. & vb. n. Mainprising
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    To suffer to go at large, on his finding sureties, or mainpernors, for his appearance at a day; -- said of a prisoner.(Law)