Middle English Dictionary Entry
rebelling(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | rebelling(e ger. Also rebellin. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Rebelling against an established government, insurrection; (b) rebelling against God, the soul, etc., disobedience; also, obstinacy in sin; also, an instance of rebellious speech; (c) distress in the stomach or bowels, disturbance.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2459 : Myn is the stranglyng and hangyng by the throte, The murmur and the cherles rebellyng.
- a1500(a1470) Brut-1461(1) (Add 10099)512/4 : Bicause of breking of þis promisse..what losse hath þe reame of Englond had bi losyng of Normandy and Guyan, bi diuison of þe reame, þe rebelling of commines Ageynst þer princes & lordes.
b
- c1450(c1400) Vices & V.(2) (Hnt HM 147)55/10 : Ten chef braunches..comeþ of þis tree of wikkede tonge..bakbityng, lesynges, forswerynges, stryuynges, grucchynges, rebellynges [Ayenb.: wyþstondinge], blasphemye.
- c1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)272/30 : By Lazare is vndirstond euery synner..for he is foure daies old ded. Þe first is consentyng, second worshiping, third custom, and fourte abstinacie oþur rebellyng.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)65 : This swerd justice..keepeth the bodi fro rebellinge and constreyneth the herte to loue god.
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)5400 : For saynt cuthbert sake..þis man, for his rebellyng To him and his, with chastying wald meke and bousom make.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)313 : The rebellyn of my flesch now yt ys superatt.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)17.41 : I sall noght be turnyd fra that entent til that thai..leue thaire rebellynge.
c
- a1500 Agnus Castus (Hrl 3840)121/12 : Þe rebelyng [vr. the swellyng; Stockh: þis herbe makyth a man to swage of rowelynge and wycked wynd in mannys body].
- a1500 Agnus Castus (Hrl 3840)203/12 : This herbe..wol distroye rebellyng in a mannys wombe [L tormenta ventris].