liage

liage

English

Etymology

Compare Old French liage (“a bond”). See liable.

Noun

liage

1. (obsolete) Union by league; alliance.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for liage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

• Eliga, agile

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French

Noun

liage m (plural liages)

1. tying; binding

Further reading

• “liage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle English

Noun

liage

1. Alternative form of lege (“liege”)

Adjective

liage

1. Alternative form of lege (adjective)

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Old French

Etymology

lier +‎ -age.

Noun

liage m (oblique plural liages, nominative singular liages, nominative plural liage)

1. link; tie; bond (something used to link two or more things together)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (liage)