Bible Dictionaries
Amortization

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The extinction of a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund; also, the money thus paid.

(2):

(n.) The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Amortization'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/amortization.html. 1828.