reprivare

reprivare [Eng. reprieve app. < p. ppl. of OF reprendere < CL repre(he)ndere; cf. et. reprisa, ME repreven], to suspend or delay execution of judicial sentence upon (person, normally as a preliminary to a formal pardon or commutation of sentence). 1575 condempnati et reprivati pro diversis feloniis Indict. (Assizes) 17 m. 4; 1587 certiores fact' predictam Petronillam ‥ murdri predicti ‥ minime ream aut culpabilem fore, ob eamque causam predictam Petronillam sepius per justiciarios nostros ad gaolam ‥ deliberandam pietate moti [sic] ~atam esse ‥ perdonamus ‥ predicte Petronille ‥ felonicas ‥ intoxicaciones Pat 1303 m. 17.

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