Middle English Dictionary Entry
minging ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | minging ger. Also menwing, muniging & (early) meneginge, meneȝinge, muneginge, muneȝing, mun(e)gunge. |
| Etymology | OE mynegung, myngung. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Admonition, exhortation; urging, incitement; (b) something that serves as a reminder; a memorial; (c) the act of remembering, remembrance; in ~ of, in memory of (sth.).
Associated quotations
a
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)51/12 : For ði warð dieuel beswiken and beuall þo haðene mid his leðre meneȝinges.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)89/25 : Ðo ilche ðohtes ðe cumeð of ðe dieule, æure hie bieð bitere, bute ȝif ðu teiðest his swikele meneȝinge.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)119/17 : Adames hierte was i-attred ðurh dieules meneȝinge.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)429 : Suche argumentis in her euydencis han not be diligent profrid wiþ grettist instaunce and oftist myngyng and exortyng.
b
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.DD (Lamb 487)45 : Ester dei..is muneȝing of his halie ariste from deðe to liue.
- c1225(?c1200) SWard (Bod 34)8/68 : Fearlac ich hatte, ant am deaðes sonde & deaðes munegunge.
- c1225(?c1200) SWard (Bod 34)16/143 : Euch her me rueð up of þi munegunge [Tit: muneginge].
- c1225(?c1200) SWard (Bod 34)26/234 : [I]ch am murðes sonde & munegunge of eche lif.
- a1250 HMaid.(Tit D.18)39/647 : Nis ha nawt in claðes..þah hit beo merke þrof, & munegunge oðer hwiles.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)200/24 : Efter kene cnihtes deað, me hongeð hehe ichirche his scheld on his mungunge.
- a1300 Ancr.(Cai 234/120)16/28 : For her nabbe ich nan iseid bute for muneginge of mon oþer of wummon of þeo þat to ham falled.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1623 : Sette he up ðat ston for muniging.
- c1450(c1400) Vices & V.(2) (Hnt HM 147)205/20 : Þe cloþ þat men ȝeueþ to þe pore is alwey amenwyng [vr. a warnynge] to þe pore to bidde for hym þat haþ ȝeue it hym.
c
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)13/14 : Efter þis falleð o cneon to ower crucifix wið þeose fif gretunges ine munegunge of godes fif wunden.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)17/18 : Heal mi blodi sawle of alle þe sunnen þet ha is wið iwundet þurh mine fif wittes i þe munegunge of ham [Christ's wounds].
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)72/25 : Cusse þe wunde studen i swote munegunge of þe soðe wunden þe he o þe soðe rode þuldeliche þolede.
- c1230 Ancr.(Corp-C 402)215/27 : Wummon..schal wreon hire heaued..i mungunge of þe sunne þet schende us on earst alle.
- c1300 The milde Lomb (Arun 248)37 : Reuful is þe meneginge of þis deth.