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recompensa [ML recompensus p. ppl. of recompendere; cf. ME, AN recompense] 1 recompense, compensation, payment. b (in ~am w. gen.) in recompense or compensation for. non licet homini sine ~a curam rectoris subtrahere Wycl. Sim. 108; 1405 rex precepit capitaneo ‥ ordinare nostris ‥ bonorum captorum restitucionem vel ~am Lit. Cant. III 92; 1424 volo et dono in ~am vicario dicte ecclesie ‥ xx s. Reg. Cant. 286; 1476 pro aliqua spirituali ~a rependenda rursus pro temporalibus favoribus nobis ‥ impensis FormA 336.  b a1254 in dignam obedientie ~am Collect. Ox. I 43; elemosinario in ~am lactis de la Rye ex elemosina conventus xiij s. iiij d. Ac. Obed. Abingd. 26; in ~am devocionis (Serm.) Ziz. 511; 1417 lego ‥ xx marcas, in ~am unius capellani celebrare soliti in quadam cantaria Wills N. Country 16; 1437 in honoris seu commodi ~am Bekynton I 10; s1452 charta libertatis regie ‥ nuper ecclesie concessa ‥ in ~am ‥ vestimentorum et jocalium Reg. Whet. I 26; 1475 [custuma] quam ‥ rex recipit in ~am certe summe ‥ debite ExchScot 319. 2 equivalent. 1396 sucienter et legitime fecerat ~am MunAcOx 236; 1409 si aliqui determinaturi libros logicales ‥ rite non audierint dummodo alios libros ‥ audierint, qui libri ‥ sufficiunt ad faciendum ~am, ad ocium determinatorum admittantur StatOx 201.

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