Middle English Dictionary Entry
renǧen v.
Entry Info
Forms | renǧen v. Also renge & ringe(n; p.ppl. i)renged. |
Etymology | OF rengier |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. raunǧen v.
1.
(a) To move about, roam; rove with the purpose of searching or hunting; move through a battlefield attacking one's opponents; ~ ayen, proceed against (sb.); renginge abouten, wandering about; (b) to roam throughout (an area), traverse.
Associated quotations
a
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)74/1 : Godd..teide..a clot of heui eorðe to hire as me deþ þe cubbel to þe ku..þet is to recchinde & renginde [Nero: ringinde] abuten.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)85/1 : Þet helle liun rengeð & reccheð eauer abuten.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Petyt 511:Hearne)p.cxciv : This Bretons renged about the feld, þe karole of the stones beheld..Biheld within, biheld without.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.40 : Þis was his message, his Danes wild he venge, Ageyn him in bataile to renne & to renge.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.4312 : Hercules..lyche a lyoun, rengyng on þe playn, Bar downe and slowe what cam in his weye.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.8264 : Among Troyens renging vp and doun, Vlixes went with his swerde in honde.
- a1425 *York MGame [OD col.] (Dgb 182)xvi : Commonliche þei go byfore her maister rengeynge and playnge with hir taile.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)4679 : Þe Bretons, as wode, rengede route [?read: on route]; Of dynt ne deþ had þey no doute.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin (Corp-C 80)18773 : They ben departyd jnto many a plas and rengen this contre al abowte.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin (Corp-C 80)22676 : So cam he Rengeng unto that rowt.
- (a1475) Recipe Painting(2) in Archaeol.J.1 (Sln 73)153 : Thanne thou schalt se the leyt of the mater rengynge upward into the upper glas.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)198 : Than thei rode forth and renged close that wey where as the childeren foughten full sore.
- ?a1525(?a1475) Play Sacr.(Dub 652)99 : In Calabre and in Coleyn þer rynge I full ryght.
b
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)441 : The huntes..Reenge the trenchis by and by.
2.
(a) To array (troops), set in battle order, draw up in lines; (b) refl. of warriors, troops: to array themselves, assume battle positions; (c) refl. to make oneself ready (to move); ride forth from the ranks.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.159 : He dide gadre an oste of Cipre & Griffonie..þei were renged redie.
- ?a1400 Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Petyt 511)5021 : [Lamb: He wolde..biden hem in þe weye] & renge þam redy in ordire.
- ?a1400 Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Petyt 511)5044 : Renged with helme [Lamb: He saw þe Romayns..Redy enbatailled wiþ spere & scheld].
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)4471 : Here ffolk were rengyd in þat playn, Foure score þousand.
- a1500 Partenay (Trin-C R.3.17)2224 : Off that other part, Anthony..Hys batail renged.
b
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)5828 : Þai..renged hem oȝain þe walle.
- ?a1400 Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Petyt 511)5029 : Renge þam sadly [F Sereement..se tiegnent; Lamb: non scholde..holde byhynde..Bot passe forþ sadlyk].
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)8257 : Þey..To renne on þe schul þem renge.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)193 : Hastely ronne these squyers to armes..and hem renged.
c
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)127 : Than two of hem renged hem [F se desrengent] and priked after the messagers as faste as the horse myght hem bere.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)134 : With that they renged hem on that oon part and on that other for the rescewe of the two knyghtes.
3.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)79 : If he se eny hert, þe which haþ a wel affeted hede..and þe tyndes wel irenged, bi good mesure, þe oon from þat oþer, [etc.].
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)1380 : With many high lorer and pyn Was renged clene all that gardyn.
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)70 : His gardins and herbers..were..welle aleyed to walke upon, and rengid withe beddis bering fulle many straunge and divers herbis.
b
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)3445 : Galewes dide þe breþere renge Of þer blod þey wol þeym venge.