Middle English Dictionary Entry
ordeining(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | ordeining(e ger. Also (error) ordinige. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Regulating, governance, control; also, a regulation; (b) arrangement; (c) preparation for battle; provisioning; (d) creation; (e) the sacrament of ordination; (f) a decision; esp. a legal ruling or judgment; (g) prescribing.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ps.118.91 : In þyn ordeynynge [vr. ordynaunce] abideþ þe day, for alle thingis seruen to þee.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)127b/b : Iohn Beleth his auctoritee is solempne in holy chirche, namely, in ordeynynge of office and seruise of holy chirche.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)206b/b : Salt þat hatte gemma..worcheþ wonderliche in ordeignynge of þe guttes and neissheþ what is harde and putteþ out superfluite.
- ?c1430(c1400) Wycl.Prelates (Corp-C 296)57 : Prelatis ben not worþi..ȝif þei don not matynes, masse, & oþer mannes ordeynyngis, moche more ȝif þei don not þis heȝe ordynaunce of god.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)96/15 : Þe wirkynge of þis last..yn composicion of Mannys body ys yn þe receyte of þe seed in þe mariz, And it lastys in his ordenyng seuen Monthys.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)209a/a : Trees..ben faire..for faire ordeignynge and settynge of partyes.
- c1440(?c1350) Mirror St.Edm.(4) (Thrn)21/34 : His powere may þou see by þaire [all things'] gretnes and by thaire makynge; His wysdom by þaire fairenes of þaire ordaynynge.
c
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)6953 : He made his ordeynynge [vrr. ordenynge, ordynaunce].
- (1451) Lin.DDoc.55/1 : I ordan xxij li. of mony with helpe of ordanyng of housalde to fede yam with.
d
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ecclus.16.26 : Fro þe ordeynynge of þoo men he seuerede þe parties of þem & þe begynnyngis of þem in here folkis of kinde.
e
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)6/147 : Of harder stat god graunteþ Wel tokne þrowȝ his ordinige.
- a1400(c1300) NHom.(1) John & Boy (Phys-E)p.112 : Quen halikirc bigan..Sain Ion was..bisi In ordaining of prestes and clerkes.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)681/5 : He comaunded to yeve to them..ordeynyngis of clerkis the which ben to be promoted to holy ordirs, and other sacramentis.
- c1425(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)31 : Crist, sending hem [deacons] to þis office, sendiþ in his ordeyning al oþer heiar, as prestis, to þe office.
f
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)167/23 : Þis pronuncinge & ordeininge sholde be sure & stronge.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)p.367 head. : Next to this folowyth the Submyssion of the abbot and couent of Oseney to abide the ordeynyng.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)370/20 : He made to be registred this his owne ordeynyng in his registre.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)370/25 : The parties aforsaid..to this ordeynyng indented ther commune selis.
- a1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)3964 : God haþ dight al þis thing At his wille and his ordeining.
g
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)106/13 : I wole..procede forþ..in ordeynynge þe curis of woundis.