Middle English Dictionary Entry
fō̆nging ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | fō̆nging ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The act or process of receiving or being received; (b) the act of admitting or permitting.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)8.307 : He [Pope John XXII] hated fongyng of ȝiftes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)110a/a : Hit is þe hous of substaunce & of riches..of fonging & of ȝeuynge, and hatte taurus.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)124b/b : Feldis beþ I ered & I opened to tyliynge & to fonginge of seed.
- c1450(c1405) Mum & S.(2) (Add 41666)1355 : How persones and prestis been y-passid ouer Thorough fauour of fangyng and no faute amendid, But liggen at London in lorden courtz.
b
- ?1435 Lond.Chron.Jul.(Jul B.2)79 : Odiouse Billes and Langage..sovnyng into ffongyng off Insurreccion.
- c1450(?a1402) *?Trev.Reg.Princ.(Dgb 233)9a/b : Nouȝt þat worschep is ful mede and quytyng to ham..bote fongyng and alowyng of worschipe.
2.
A gathering or accumulation.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)155a/b : A lay [L lacus] is fongynge [L receptaculum] of pryue watres.
3.
Reception; capacity for receiving, receptivity.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)119b/a : For fonginge of bodiles liȝt, þey ben suffisaunt to euerlastinge bischinynge.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)130a/b : Oþir liȝt þat is I schad & comeþ in to matiere is febil oþir derk as þe fongynge [L capacitatem] of matiere askiþ.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)304a/b : Þough colour be nouȝt yseye in derkenesse, þat is nought for the defaute of colour, but þe defaut is in þat þyng þat schulde fonge, for disposicioun lakkeþ þat nedeþ in such fongynge.
4.
An attack, a seizure.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)82a/b : Þey þat han þat yuel cathalempcia..feliþ a maner fonginge as it were of amptis.
- c1450 *Mannyng HS (Cmb Ii.4.9)110b : Many gon theder for gret evyl, thorow þe fongyng [Hrl 1020: cumberaunce; Bod: wyle] of þe devyl.