Middle English Dictionary Entry
dēclāring ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | dēclāring ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Action of telling; speaking, discussion; a narrative.
Associated quotations
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.155 : Now it is declarynge [L modo sit agendum] how þe Pictes were destroyed and failled.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)1.pr.1.26 : The whiche clothes sche hadde woven with hir owene handes, as I knew wel aftir by hirselve declarynge and schewynge to me the beaute.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)6.3345 : Pronunciacioun is the fourth armure Necessarie to eueri oratour..that ther be fauour In declaryng.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)28.6 : And ȝit it to vs Scheweth Apressly the declarenge Of this holy Storye.
- a1500(?c1378) Wycl.OPastor.(Ryl Eng 86)457 : Summen tellen wiþ myche declaring þat ground of þis heþen custom springiþ in þe chirche of þe pope.
2.
(a) The act of explaining, the resolving of a doubt or uncertainty, an explanation; (b) a corollary to a proposition.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mk.(Manly-Rickert)B.3172 : Lo this declaryng oghte ynogh suffise.
- a1425(?a1400) Cloud (Hrl 674)4/11 : Þe eiȝt chapitre: A good declaryng of certeyn doutes þat may falle in þis werk, tretid bi questyon.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)6 : As for declaringis and decidingis of questiouns and doutis whiche mowe be maad in manye foolde caasis of preier..of matrymonye and of alle suche oþere, it is to haue recours vnto oþere bookis.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)34.177 : Be wheche Revelacion And declarenge Kyng label Cam to Cristenynge.
- c1450(?c1400) Wycl.Elucid.(StJ-C G.25)26 : Þe disciple axiþ, 'good maistir, preue þis in more declaringe!'
- (c1456) Pecock Faith (Trin-C B.14.45)289 : And therfore it that al the clergie, or the hool chirche, may do her aboute, is denouncing, and declaring, and determynyng to the sympler party of the chirche what is in ever either of these now last seid maners.
b
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)3.pr.10.174 : This ys..a fair thing..clepe it as thou wilt, be it corolerie, or porisme, or mede of coroune, or declarynges.
3.
The act of proclaiming; a proclamation; presentation (of evidence).
Associated quotations
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Ps.118.130 : The declaring [L Declaratio] of thi woordis liȝtneth.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)129a/a : Þe preuylagis of þis day were..openynge and declaringe of holy writ of prophecye.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)248 : Certis y take þis word honouring forto signifie and meene al wittnessing, declaring, and expressing of eny worþines.
- (1443-9) Paston2.60 : Edmund Paston..seyd that it wher best declaryng of his evydence in Westminster hall.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)102/34 : In many kyndis..mowe open solempne sermons be made; for summe mowe be made forto renne vpon þe..declaryng of vicis.
4.
The act of proving.
Associated quotations
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.595 : Eek thow shalt nat swere..for mede, but for rightwisnesse, for declarynge of it to the worship of god and helpyng of thyne euene cristene.
5.
Knowledge, explanatory data.
Associated quotations
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)28.434 : But whanne that tyme Cometh therto, That declareng of þe swerd we scholen gon to.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)43a : A principle this maye be one For the declaringe of our stone.
Note: New sense--Sense not covered in definition.--per MJW
Note: ?Interpreting, explaining, expounding; ?close to sense 2.(a)--per MLL
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.62vb (2.8) : To haue more declaring of þis reule..vnderstonde a poynt þat is ful nedeful in þis faculte: þer is 2 maner of demyng in vryn.
Note: Additional quot., prob. sense 2.(a). Editor's gloss: 'explanation'.