Middle English Dictionary Entry
glimsing(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | glimsing(e ger. Also glemesing, glinsing. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Imperfect vision; (b) partial comprehension.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.2383 : Ye han som glymsynge [vrr. glemesyng, glynsyng] and no parfit sighte. 'I se,' quod he, 'as wel as euere I myghte.'
b
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)31 : Þouȝ alle her resouns..be not in her writyngis cleerly formed..toward þe affermative partie of þis questioun y can not excuse me more þan oþere forto be partles from lijk..in þe resoun a glymsyng and in þe affect an inclynyng.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1400(a1353) MS Roy.7.E.4 in Wenzel ME Lexicon (Roy 7.E.4)469 : [The souls of the damned] habebunt tamen..modicum lumen quod anglice vocatur glimslge [read: glimsinge].
Note: Antedates sense (a) and word. New form (error): 'glimsige'. Source: Bromyard.