Middle English Dictionary Entry
fō̆rǧing ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | fō̆rǧing ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The act or process of shaping metal at a forge; craft of ~, occupation of a smith; (b) act or process of creating, creation; (c) something imagined, a falsehood; ~ of lesinges, fabrication of lies; (d) the forging or counterfeiting (of legal documents).
Associated quotations
a
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 370)2 Par.34.17 : The syluer..is ȝeuen to the prefectis of craftise men and forgynge [WB(2): makynge] dyuerse werkis.
- (1428) Doc.in Sur.Soc.853 : He was empeched of forgeyng of fals osmundes of drosse and of landyren.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)100/18 : Þe kyng thotht to do lere him vpon sciences..But it profyted noght, ffor he myghte noght bowe hys kynde but to þe craft of fforgynge.
b
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.5021 : Nature, in forgyng of þis mayde, Hir konnyng al outterly assaied To make hir fair aboue eche creature.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)2288 : For but I [Venus] put to my cure, Hir [Nature's] forgyng myghte nat endure.
c
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)158/26 : Alle þat lacken her groundingis ouȝten to be taken as feynyngis and wilful forgingis.
- (c1456) Pecock Faith (Trin-C B.14.45)167 : Wherfore schulde this fantasie serve better in his forging [etc.].
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)29 : Apertly it preveth my wordes ben sothe, without forginge of lesinges.
d
- (1467) Paston4.285 : The untrewe forgyng and contryvyng certayne testamentes and last wyll by naked wordes.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Ecclus.32.8 : A litil iemme of karbuncle in the ournement of gold; and comparisoun of musikes in the feste of wyn. As in forging [L fabricatione] of gold, signe is of a smaragd, so the noumbre of musikis in myrie and temperat wyn.
Note: New sense (e): something fashioned by a goldsmith.