flnance (1), finaunce, fynaunce, fynanse

[Fr. finance, from Low Lat. financia =a payment, from fino to pay a fine or tax; finis =a payment, a final settlement, from finis = the end; Sp. & Ital. finanza.] *1. A ransom, a payment. "So then he was put to his fynanse to pay xxii. thousande frankes of France."-Berners: Froi art; Cronycle, vol. i., ah. ccii. 2. ( Pl .): The income or revenue of a state; the funds in the public treasury. "All the finances or revenues of the imperial crown."Bacon: Office of Alienations . 3. ( Pl .): Private income or resources. ( Colloquial .) 4. The science or system of public revenue and expenditure. "The two principal ministers of finance , therefore, became enemies." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xi. To make finance : (Fr. faire finance . ) 1. To raise or collect money. "To fortify, mantene, or supple the said James in mak ing of fynance or vtherwais." -Act . Dom. Conc., p. 129. 2. To make a composition in the way of paying money. "Become plege & borgh to our souerane lord is Justice for finance maid for the said Johne Eklis and Thomas Wallace in the Justice are of Are."-Act. Dom. Conc., a. 1488, p. 111. *fi-năn'çe (2), s. [Eng. fin (e), a.; -ance.] Finene , purity. "His hiene sall than, God willing, with the avi of the lord is of his consale, mak a sett & reuyle [rule] of his moneye, baith gold & siluer, of the wecht & finance that it sall halde." -Acts Jas. III ., a. 1478 (ed. 1814), p. 118. fi-năn'çe, v . t . & i. [FINANCE (1), 8.] A. Trans.: To manage the financial arrangements of; as, to finance a company. ( Comm.slang .) B. In trans.: To manage financial operations; to meet obligations by continual borrowing. *fi-năn-çëer, s. [FINANCIER.]