Middle English Dictionary Entry
angwisshen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | angwisshen v. Also anguis(s)en. |
| Etymology | OF anguissier, angoissier. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To grieve; -- intr. & refl.; (b) ben angwisshed, to be troubled, anxious, or distressed; to feel pain, be in agony; (c) to distress or torment (sb.).
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.132 : Þe fader, kyng Henry, in herte had he payn & anguised greuosly þat Thomas was so slayn.
- a1425(a1400) Paul.Epist.(Corp-C 32)2 Cor.6.12 : Be ȝee not anguyschyd [L angustiamini] in vs; but anguysche ȝee ȝou in ȝoure entrayles.
b
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Ps.60.3 : Whil myn herte shulde ben anguysht [WB(2): angwischid; L anxiaretur].
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Jonah 2.8 : My soule was angwishid [L angustiaretur] in me.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)2 Cor.6.12 : Oure hert is alargid; ȝe ben not angwischid [WB(1): maad streit; L angustiamini] in vs, but ȝe ben anguischid in ȝoure inwardnessis. And Y seie..be ȝe alargid.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Gen.31.40 : Y was angwischid [WB(1): streynyd; L urebar] in dai and nyȝt with heete and frost.
- a1425(a1400) Paul.Epist.(Corp-C 32)2 Cor.4.8 : We suffre trybulacyoun, but we be not anguysched [L angustiamur].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)68b/a : He is anguisshed, he is alle caste doune and astouned, he haþ þe feberez.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)8436 : He was Angwysched so for wo, That of his forhede barst the swote.
- c1425(c1400) Primer (Cmb Dd.11.82)43 : My spirit was aunguyschid [L anxiatus est] on me; myn herte was disturblid in me.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)309 : Thei wenten aboute..in skynnes of geet, nedi, angwischid, turmentid.
c
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)146 : Þet me naȝt him misdo, ne angrisi [read: anguisi], ne harmi be his miȝte.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)1 Kings 1.6 : Hir enemye tourmentide hir and hugely angwishide [L angebat].
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)3.m.7.1 : Every delit..angwisscheth hem with prykkes that usen it.
- c1450(?c1425) St.Mary Oign.(Dc 114)138/34 : [Þes teeris] angwyshe wiþ noon akynge, but þey lightsum þe soule with a shynnynge.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)34/10 : Ayenst hem þat haue anguysshed hem & oppressed hem.