Middle English Dictionary Entry
entīcement n.
Entry Info
| Forms | entīcement n. Also in-. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The action of inciting or tempting (to wrong-doing or to sin), temptation; seduction; also, allurement or lure; (b) the action of urging, encouraging, or persuading; encouragement.
Associated quotations
a
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)758 : Þe fendes enticement.
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)34.8 : Of her wicked enticement [L laquei].
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)120.5 : Brynynge of vice ne shal nouȝt brulen þe bi daie, ne enticement bi niȝt.
- c1390 In worschupe (Vrn)50 : Wimmen wrouȝte neuer no wrong But þorw Monnes entysement.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.967 : For enticement or for consentement to bere compaignye with felaweshipe.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)2146 : Al ys entycement of þe deuyl.
- (c1422) Hoccl.Dial.(Dur-U Cosin V.3.9)725 : Thurgh thyn enticement Shee hath y-broken my commandement.
- a1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)35/11 : First sal þai anure to-gidir and siþin kis; bot bi-fore þe vre sal þai noht basse for þenticement of þe deuil.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)39.504 : Thowghe þat be Entysment the devel to hym Calle.
- a1450 7 Sages(3) (Cmb Dd.1.17)3420 : Thorow the fyndys entysment.
- c1450(?c1400) Wycl.Elucid.(StJ-C G.25)8 : Goode men schulden be purged wiþ hem in wiþstondinge her enticementes.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)5 : He stered this man, that he come to the oon of these sustres, and thourgh the deueles entysement, that he lay by hire.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)409 : To..kept hym in direccion From entisement of al eiuill and folie.
- 1607(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hrl 2124)325/173 : Adam, by my Intycement, and all his bloud through me were blent.
- 1607(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hrl 2124)34/350 : Now all my kinde by me is kent, to flee womans intisement.
b
- c1390 Mirror St.Edm.(1) (Vrn)594 : Þorwh defaute of good entisement.
- a1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)2073 : All if a woman ful eld haue, And religion wil to hir craue, And hase non entisment þer-til Bot oblis hir awn wil, Fully resauyd sal scho not be.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)219/33 : Kynge Arthur..labored by the entycement of Merlin, that all peple hym be-heilde for the merveile.