Middle English Dictionary Entry
remembring ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | remembring ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The act or process of remembering, committing to memory; haven in ~, to remember (sb.), keep (sb.) in mind; (b) reminding; also, pressing a request; (c) meditation, consideration.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)245 : Þei waasten greet cost of almes and expensis whiche myȝt be spendid and be sett vertuosely into þy comaundementis and servicis, leernyng, remembring, and fulfilling streiȝtli.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)422 : Þei hadde as for an vnlakable and an vnleueable daily obseruaunce þe redyng, leernyng, remembring, and vsyng of þo bookis whiche god vouchiþ saaf me to write.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)500 : Lernyng and remembring ben of such kynde or maner þat in hem þe resoun laboriþ more þan resoun laboriþ in preising, and þerfore þe wil in tyme of leernyng and of remembring laboriþ lasse þan þe wil laboriþ in preising forto gendre the seid greet loue to god.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin (Corp-C 80)608 : This goodman hadde sche Jn Remembryng, and took vp hire hond and gan hire to blesse.
b
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)547 : It is resonable, alloweable, and profitable for cause of remembring that religiose persoones haue outward habitis dyuerse fro the outward habitis of lay men.
- (1461) Paston (EETS)1.391 : I lawboryd to hym contynually..that ye schuld thynke no defawte jn me fore rememberyng jn the seyd materys.
c
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ps.37.1 : Þe psalm of dauid in remembring [WB(2): to bythenke; L in rememorationem] of þe sabot.
- c1485 Chaucer CT.Pars.(Pep 2006)I.255 : Remembryng [Heng: The vthe thyng þat oghte moeue a man to Contricion is remembrance of the passion þat oure lord Ihu crist suffred].