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"The raising of money; money raised or lent for some purpose."
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"ref": "1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IV, lxxxi",
"text": "Ah! be it not pardie declared in France, / Or elsewhere told where court'sy is in prize, // That we forsook so fair a chevisance, / For doubt or fear that might from fight arise."
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"(obsolete) Chivalrous adventure."
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"(obsolete) An unlawful agreement or contract."
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}
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"(obsolete) Chivalrous adventure."
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"(obsolete) An unlawful agreement or contract."
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