Middle English Dictionary Entry
egging ger.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | egging ger.(1) Also eggin, eggung. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The act of urging on, urging; (b) incitement to evil, instigation, temptation; fals or evel ~; (c) encouragement (to do good).
Associated quotations
a
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)11675 : Þin egginng iss off flæshess lusst, & nohht off sawless fode.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.2135 : Ianuarie hath caught so greet a wille, Thurgh eggyng of his wyf, hym for to pleye In his gardyn.
- c1400 Brut-1333 (Rwl B.171)250/24 : Forto feiȝt wiþ þe Scottes, þrouȝ egging of Sire Henry.
- a1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)3707 : Ȝowthe of hym-self & heygyng of other children also Maden hym to forȝete his sweuene.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)2409 : [Alexander] vndirstandis..þe eging of Eschilus þat ertid his feris.
- c1450(a1375) Octav.(2) (Clg A.2)688 : Boy, selle hem noȝt For non eggenges.
b
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)29 : Þe egginge and þe likinge him bringeð in to helle pine.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)577 : He forgulte him anan þurh þe eggunge of eue.
- c1230(?a1200) *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)21a : Bacbitunge & fikelunge & eggunge to don uuel..beoð þe deofles bleas.
- ?a1300 Sayings St.Bern.(Dgb 86)32 : If þat fend..Þorou wikke roun, þorou fals egging, Þere ne þere þe haueþ I-cast.
- c1330(?c1300) Spec.Guy (Auch)229 : Þurw eging of þe fend and Eue.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)27836 : Iuel eging [Frf: egging; Glb: eggin], ocur, and symoni.
- a1400 Heil & holi (Cmb Gg.4.32)38 : To hem þat weren þorgh egginge Forloren of Satanas.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)241 : Þurȝ þe eggyng of Eve he ete of an apple.
- a1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)5487 : A thefe..hym accuses of þe same thyng Þat he with hym did thurgh his eggyng.
- (1433) ?Phillip Serm.GF (BodLTh d.1)252 : 5a littera est .e. et signat judeorum eggyns.
- c1450 Interpol.Rolle Ps.(1) (Bod 288:Everett)219 : Synnes to which we assenten wilfully þoru his eggyng.
- c1400 Interpol.Rolle Cant.(1) (Bod 288)20 : I schal folowe wiþ yvel eggyng.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)18.13 : Other synnes that comes of ill eggyngis [vr. euel entysynge].
c
- c1300 Evang.(Dlw 22)145 : Kinde giuez il man eginge Of god þing to haue ȝerninge.