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relevium [cf. CL relevare], ~ia 1 time at which one rises again (after rest), afternoon (cf. OF relevée). 1297 juxta ipsam sedebat ab hora medii ~ii usque vesperam CourtR Hales 356. 2 what is lifted off a table and removed, remnant (of food from a meal, given as alms for relief of hunger, cf. ME, AN relef, OF relief). tres discos ad opus pauperum trium elemosinarius cotidie faciet inperpetuum, videlicet de ~io panis, carnis, et piscium, et quandoque de remanenti pulmentorum Obs. Barnwell 179; cumque omnes comederint, percutiat ter mensam cum cultello et colligetur ~ium Lib. Evesham 17. 3 relief (from burden, in quot. w. ref. to soul in purgatory). c955 alias quinque mansas do monasterio monialum in urbe Wentana ‥ pro animae meae ~io CS 827. 4 source of relief, support, maintenance. 1587 pro ~io et sustentacione pauperum Pat 1301 m. 13. 5 relief: a (payment by heir on taking possession of vacant estate); b (eccl., by tenant at election of bishop or head of mon. house); c (dist. from heriot). a quod heres occisi in bello cum domino non det ~ium (Quad.) GAS 538n. 53 (cf. ib. 365: qui in bello ante dominum suum ceciderit ‥ sint relevationes condonate; (Inst. Cnuti) ib.: heregeat; (Const. Cnuti) ib.: exercitualia); c1165 post decessum cujuscunque burgensium predictorum heres vel heredes sui intraret vel intrarent burgagium vel burgagia predicta ‥ tenenda quietum de ~io vel herieto (Tewkesbury) BBC 75; dicitur autem rationabile rellevium alicujus juxta regni consuetudinem de feodo unius militis centum solidi Glanv. IX 4; 1224 debet relivium de iij feudis LTR Mem 16 m. 10; 1231 cum burgensis moriatur, heres ejus nullum aliud ~ium dabit mihi nisi hujusmodi arma, sc. gladium vel arcum vel lanceam Ch. Chester 435; oportet ‥ quod ‥ hereditas ‥ relevetur in manus heredum et propter talem relevationem facienda erit †ad [l. ab] heredibus quedam prestatio que dicitur ~ium Bracton f. 84; 1275 de j libra piperis de ~io Willelmi B. Ac. Stratton 69; 1331 debet dictum feodum lx s. j d. de ~eio quando casus accidit S. Jers. I 10; ~iam vulgo aut relevatam Lesley RGScot 204. b c1180 ego debeo prenominato abbati plenum ~ium meum, decem videlicet libras reddendas, si mater mea decesserit Ch. Westm. 490 p. 319; 1215 precipimus tibi quod sine dilacione distringas omnes debitores ‥ quod reddant executoribus testamenti ipsius [episcopi] omnia debita tam de relleviis quam arreragiis Cl I 188; 1276 de centum solidis quos recognovit in scaccario domini regis se debere domino episcopo nomine ~ii pro manerio ‥ Reg. Heref. 51; item idem Philippus et heredes sui feodum suum francum per homagium, ~eium, et alia consueta auxilia tenebit ab abbate Montis CartINorm. 139. c est quedam alia prestatio que nominatur herietum, et que nullam comparationem habet ad ~ium Bracton f. 86; 1487 redditu, assiso, pannagio porcorum, custumariis operibus in denariis extentis, wardis, maritagiis, ~iis, finibus, heriettis ‥ exceptis et penitus domino reservatis Crawley 467; 1583 ~iis, heriettis, finibus Pat 1235 m. 19.

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