Middle English Dictionary Entry
argūing ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | argūing ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The action of trying to convince or persuade; disputing, pleading (as in a court of law); argument, controversy.
Associated quotations
- 1425(a1400) Spec.Chr.(1) (Lnsd 344)87/2 : These are synnys of þe mouthe: Outrage..Uayn arguing [vr. argyng], ffoli lauȝing.
- c1430(c1395) Chaucer LGW Prol.(2) (Benson-Robinson)465 : Lat be thyn arguynge, For Love ne wol nat counterpletyd be In ryght ne wrong.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)6/27 : Lijk spechis..ben wonyd so to be spoke in arguyng bi word and bi writyng.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)10676 : Wenystow..That I knowe no maner thyng Off thy sotyl Argwyng?
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)6.1 : Arguynge is to ouer come a nother with skilles.
2.
(a) The reasoning process; esp., formal and logical reasoning; (b) an argument or reason advanced in support of a claim; (c) an explanation.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)226 : Manye oþere questiouns and enqueringis and arguyngis..ben explied and opened and sett forþ in þe first treti.
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)4.1649 : Lete vs lerne now of þis mayde What þat god is..ffor I coude neuere with natu[r]al arguyng Diuyne so ferre.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)51/36 : Without arguyng is no knowyng bi science of eny þing founde.
- (c1456) Pecock Faith (Trin-C B.14.45)133 : The seid examynacioun of thilk article ouȝte to be maad bi labour of arguyng in oure natural resoun.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)12/16 : Wiþ which power [resoun] may be dryue oute and founden in arguyng and concluding what is trewe, what is fals, what is good, and what is bad.
b
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.431 : Al manere of arguynge [communes loci] may be i-bend toward every side by the facunde of þe pledere.
c
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)165a/b : It may be reiterate i. eftesonez done in þe same place or in his felawely membre or in anoþer next to hym, after þis maner of arguyng [L iuxta iliud Arnaldi].
3.
An accusation.
Associated quotations
- c1410 3 Arrows Doomsday (UC 97)447 : Domine ne in furore, &c. [Ps.6]..I am vnmyȝty to bere euereyther, that is, þin arguyng in þe doom, ne þi chastysement in purgatorie.