Middle English Dictionary Entry
rāving(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | rāving(e ger. |
| Etymology | Cp. rāven v.(1). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Delirium, mental derangement; delirious or wild speech, raving; (b) a hallucination, an illusion.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Fkl.(Manly-Rickert)F.1026 : He sette hym doun And in his rauyng [vrr. raueinge; gronynge] seyde his orisoun; For verray wo out of his wit he breyde.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)52b/b : Ȝif þey ben vnliche oþir greet whappinge..in ony of ham, it tokeneþ woo & sorwe oþir ravinge.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)80b/b : Frenesie..is an hote posteme in certeyne skynnes and felles of þe brayne, and þerto folewiþ wakynge and ravinge.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)82a/a : Of alle þise comeþ inordinat wakinge, & angwisch folowiþ, colour changiþ, and besy þouȝtis encresiþ, & rauynge [L alienationes mentis] & vnresonable suspeciouns.
- c1415 Chaucer CT.Pars.(Lnsd 851)I.793 : Nowe commeþ..chideinge & al rauynges [vrr. Ravyng; rauynes], blasphemynge, & reniinge of god.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)56b/b : Accidentz, forsoþ, þat beþ woned for to come in dissolute continuitez beþ aking, apostemez, discrasye, febre..& rauyng, i. alienacioun [L alienatio].
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)102b/b : Ȝif blode & coler be to muche brent & melancolie be malicious, þer folowen þe werst accidentes þat maie ben, as tremblynge of þe herte & swownynge..alienacioun, þat is to seie, rauynge, & sumtyme deþ.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)158a/b : Þei ben, as it were, neruous brawnes, in þe whiche þer falleþ ofte tyme þe spasme & permixtioun of resoun & rauynge.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)206/5 : Alle þoo trespaces þat ben of þe vertu regityf ben cleped alienaciouns, i. rauynge or madnesses.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)237/6 : Euel accidentes, as..quakyng, crampe, ravynge, and swowning..ben perilouse.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)424 : Ravynge: Deliracio, deliramentum.
- a1450 Chauliac(4) (Cai 336/725)25/36 : Þe i chapitre is..Of correccioun of accidentis & þingis þat happen to hem þat ben woundid, as..of swownynge, of reuynge of þe witt, of rauynge, & siche.
b
- c1450(c1400) Rev.Jul.Norwich (Add 37790)74/9 : Than schewed oure lorde me wordys..'Witte it welle, it was na rauynge that thowe sawe today.'
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. raving.