deed
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English dede, from Old English dēd, dǣd (“deed, act”), from Proto-West Germanic *dādi, from Proto-Germanic *dēdiz (“deed”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tis (“deed, action”). Analyzable through Proto-Germanic as do + -th. Doublet of thesis.
The real estate sense derives from the fact that property deeds are traditionally used to demonstrate proof of ownership of a legal title in common law jurisdictions, such as England & Wales and most of the United States.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]deed (plural deeds)
- An action or act; something that is done.
- One small deed can have one stour effect or more.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 44:15:
- And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done?
- A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4:
- They should accomplish both a knightly deed,
- 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
- whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn
- Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.
- I have fulfilled my promise in word and in deed.
- (law) A legal instrument that is executed under seal or before a witness; sometimes required for certain legal activities, such as the transfer of certain kinds of property.
- (by extension, real estate) The legal title to real estate; ownership.
- I inherited the deed to the house.
- (by extension, real estate) The legal title to real estate; ownership.
Synonyms
[edit]- (action): act, action; see also Thesaurus:action
Derived terms
[edit]- a good deed is its own reward
- almsdeed
- bond for deed
- counterdeed
- deeder
- deedful
- deedholder
- deedholding
- deedless
- deedly
- deed of appointment
- deed of assumption
- deed of retirement
- deed of trust
- deed poll
- deedwork
- deedworthy
- deedy
- do the deed
- estoppel by deed
- fordede
- indeed
- in very deed
- misdeed
- mortgage deed
- no good deed ever goes unpunished
- no good deed goes unpunished
- overdede
- propaganda by the deed
- propaganda of the deed
- quit claim deed
- quitclaim deed
- redeed
- special warranty deed
- time the deed to the need
- title deed
- trust deed
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Verb
[edit]deed (third-person singular simple present deeds, present participle deeding, simple past and past participle deeded)
- (real estate, informal) To transfer real property by deed.
- He deeded over the mineral rights to some fellas from Denver.
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]deed
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[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]deed
- dead (no longer alive)
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)[1], published c. 1410, Joon 5:21, page 47r, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- foꝛ as þe fadir reiſiþ deed men ⁊ quykeneþ .· ſo þe ſone quykeneþ whom he wole
- Just like the father raises the dead and revives them, the son revives who he wants.
- inert, inactive.
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)[2], published c. 1410, James 2:28, page 110r, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- foꝛ as þe bodi wiþout þe ſpirit is deed .· ſo alſo feiþ wiþout werkis is deed
- Just like the body without a soul is dead, faith without works is dead as well.
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[edit]References
[edit]- “dēd, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Scots
[edit]Verb
[edit]deed
- past participle of dee
- (Southern Scots) past participle of dei
Adverb
[edit]deed
Yola
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]deed
- dead[1]
- 1927, “LAMENT OF A WIDOW”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 130, lines 4[2]:
- Ochone! Jone, thee yart deed.
- Ochone, John, you are dead.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 33
- ^ Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
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