Middle English Dictionary Entry
reconcīling(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | reconcīling(e ger. Also reconsiling(e, reconsileinge, recounsiling, recounsillinge, recounciling, recounseling, recouncelinge, recounseiling(e, recensiling. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The action of being reconciled with an adversary; accord between adversaries; an act or instance of reconciliation; also in saying; (b) readmission to a guild, reinstatement; (c) reconciliation between God and man; (d) ceremonial reconsecration (of a church, holy ground, etc.).
Associated quotations
a
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.2881 : The dissensioun bigynneth by another man and the reconsilyng [vrr. reconsileinge; reconsilicioun] bigynneth by thy self.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.2926 : The reconsilynge [vrr. recounsilyng, recounselyng] which we been nat worthy to haue..ye..haue presented vn to vs.
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)301 : A Recounsillynge: reconsiliacio.
b
- (1428) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)181 : Also Resseyued of Robert Arnold for his Impocioun [read: Imposecion] and Reconsiling & to haffe luffe of þe crafte aȝene, x li.
c
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ecclus.44.17 : Noe is founde a parfit riȝtwis man & in tyme of wrathe he is maad recounsiling [WB(2): recouncelynge; L reconciliatio].
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Is.60.10 : In myn indignacioun..I smot þee & in my recounsiling I hadde rewþe of þee.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))2 Mac.5.20 : That place..eftesoone in grete recounseilyng of the Lord shal be enhaunsid with grete glorie.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Rom.5.11 : We glorien in God, by oure Lord Jhesu Crist, by whom we han receyued now recouncilyng or acordyng.
- a1425(a1400) Paul.Epist.(Corp-C 32)Rom.11.15 : If þe losyng of þem is þe reconsylyng of þe world, what shal ben takyng vp of hem but þe lyf of þe dead?
- c1430(a1410) Love Mirror (Brsn e.9)32 : This day bygan the hele and the redempcioun of mankynde and the reconsilynge to the fader of heuene.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)44.3 : The warld resayued grace of recouncelynge.
d
- (c1384) WBible(1) TL (F&M)690 : In recounseilynge of a Churche.
- (1459) Acc.St.Margaret Southwark in BMag.32640 : Payd for Recensylyng of the Chyrche yerd, in all costes, xxiij s. x d.