Middle English Dictionary Entry
līing(e ger.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | līing(e ger.(1) Also lienge, ligging(e, liging(e & (early) liggunge. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Being in, or adopting, a reclining posture; ~ adoun; (b) sleeping; ~ place (stede), bed, sleeping quarters; (c) lying sick; ~ in, of a woman: confinement; (d) an act of sexual intercourse; ~ bi, such an act; also, copulating with (a woman); (e) the condition of being buried, burial; (f) staying, remaining, lingering; also, dwelling; ~ in wait (await), waiting in ambush.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)6.93 : Wiþ som manere rouschelynge þat he made in ligynge adoun [L recubando], his felowe awook.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)109b/b : A weþir, in ligginge vppon on side, turneþ & chaungiþ by euen steuines.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.141 : For boþe Cristis liynge in þe sepulcre and his dwellinge here in erþe was litil tyme.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)305 : Lyynge, or lyggynge: Jacencia.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)244 : Lowting, bowing, kneling, falling adoun, ligging..to þe erþe.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)607/14 : Recubitus: syttynge or lyynge.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)47/30 : Þe vse of oure resoun..vse of oure bodili goyng, moving, ligging, resting, and sitting.
b
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)8/3 : Alle oþer swucche þinges, of werunge, of liggunge, of ures.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Prov.7.17 : I haue araȝid with cordis my litil bed..I ha sprengd my ligging place [WB(2): bed; L cubile] with myrre.
- a1400 NVPsalter (Vsp D.7)6.6 : With mi teres in mi bede Sal i wete mi liggynge-stede [L stratum].
- a1425 Cursor (Glb E.9)29091 : Wering of haire..Sighing, wepeing, and ill liging [Vsp: lair].
- ?a1440 Hortus (Brist-U)272 : Cubatorium: a bed or lying place.
- a1500 Lydg.LOL (Htrn 232)5.429 : Lyggynge [Dur-U: While thay slepte at her logyng place, Came an Angell].
c
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)6686 : If tua flites, and þat tan Þe toþer smite..Sua þat he lij, scort quile or lang..Þe smiter sal quite his lechyng And þe scath of his liging [Göt: ligging].
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)305 : Lyynge yn, of chylde bedde: Decubie.
d
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Ecclus.23.6 : Do awei fro me lustis of the wombe, and the liggyngus of lust [WB(2): coueitisis of letcherie; L concubitus concupiscentiæ], ne take thei me.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Rom.9.10 : Rebecca, of o liggynge by [L ex uno concubitu], hauynge tweye sones of Ysaac.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.11 : He made hym do penaunce seven ȝere for unlaweful liggynge by a mynchoun.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)1668 : To wedde chyldryn or þey hadde age..ȝyf þey so ȝunge togedyr lye [F se seient a lur pleisir]..of swych lyggyng haþ foly beyn.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)229/11 : If a mannes ȝerde be swollen wiþ hete of liggyng bi a womman, þus þou schalt helpe him.
- c1410(a1387) Legal Gloss.Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.97 : Leyrwe [read: Leyrewite], amendes for liggynge by a bond womman [Higd.(2): corrupcion of a woman natife; L corruptione nativæ].
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)15b/a : Coitus: lyinge by.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)153b/b : It cummeþ also of colde and lyinge by a leprous womnan [read: womman] oþer a scalled womman.
e
- (1439) EEWills116/8 : My grete templys..be sold..and delyueryd to the sayde Abbat and the howse of Tewkesbery, so they groche noȝt with my lyenge.
- a1500(c1386) St.Erk.(Hrl 2250)205 : Þe lengthe of my lyinge here, þat is a lewid date.
f
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.3555 : Mordre..Await liggyng, falshede, and tresoun.
- (1439) RParl.5.28b : Hides and Talowe..which at the same Staple can not be sold, nother abere the costes and other charges of thaire longe lyggyng and beyng there.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)68b : Þe enemy..hopiþ þat þe..bataille schal sone be endid, and ȝif it is taried along..for longe ligginge and litel worschippe winninge, he is ydryue by dispeir and wanhope to..goon away.
- (1458) Let.Sou.in Sou.RS 22 (Sou SC.2/9/2)18 : His lyenge here sholde but putte vs yn coste.
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)216 : A Lygynge in wayte: jnsidie.
2.
(a) Dwelling place, encampment; ?also, living conditions; (b) the lair of an animal; (c) position, posture.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Cursor (Frf 14)6306 : In syrie..þai made þaire ligging [Göt: logging] for to bide.
- c1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)935 : If þou hatz oþer lygyngez stoute, Now tech me to þat myry mote.
- a1500(1465) Leversedge Vision (Add 34193)27 : Wat hath byn thy lying, and how hast thou lyvyd and disposid thee in erth?
b
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)39 : [Wild cats] make her liggynge and her beddes of ferne and of gras.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)83 : Þei to drawe hem nye hym..so þat þe dere fynde hem nouȝt til he drawe to his Couert and to his liggyng.
c
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)46a/b : In þe noumbre also of arteries and veynes is no diuersite, but in her posiscioun & liggynge.
- c1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)148a/a : In all oþere preparaciouns, as in byndynge & in liggynge & al oþir maner of worchinge, kepe þe pacient from akþe ouþir þoruȝ handlyng.
- c1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)167b/a : As touchinge þe maner of liynge to oure purpos Jn alle maner of woundis of þe wombe..þe wounde schal euermore be as euene vpward as it mai.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1450 Sentence in YULG 60 (Yale 3.34)54 : [Hairy Scot, footed with a boot, wast thou not at the wrest-?] lying in þe cruk on þe mowne? Went þu ther war…in þe wyyld; wen…com þu hamward, þer was þu castyn in medis on þe plays, þat þi nek b[r]ak þe ty…yll grays.
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