Middle English Dictionary Entry
ǧīren v.
Entry Info
| Forms | ǧīren v. |
| Etymology | L gȳrāre & OF girer. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To turn (sth.) away (from sth.); (b) to rotate (sth.), cause (one of the celestial spheres) to revolve; (c) of the sun: to circle (the heavens), travel circularly.
Associated quotations
a
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.327 : The cornel rise vppon the wynter sonne; and gire hit [L auertatur] from the colde west, if thow conne.
b
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)11.551 : That shine & goon our princis flour aspire..so list vche hour, and gire His spere aright that, sauyng Oon, so cleer Sterre is ther noon in al our emyspire.
c
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)10.203 : Septembre is with Aprill houris euen, ffor Phebus lijk in either gireth heuen.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)12.145 : Whanne their flouryng is so bigunne, While thr[i]e aboute his cours gireth the sunne.