Middle English Dictionary Entry
righting(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | righting(e n. Also riȝtinge, (chiefly early) rihting(e. |
| Etymology | OE rihtung, rihting. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A making correct, putting right; straightening, a cure; (b) moral correction, spiritual guidance; (c) a just ordinance or commandment; (d) pl. rightinges, last rites [cp. right n.10.]; also, the right to receive the Eucharist; (e) grant of rights of jurisdiction, establishment of jurisdiction; also, establishment, foundation; (f) preparation.
Associated quotations
a
- c1425 Evang.(BodAdd C.38)985 : Som him folwed for her fode, Som of her sekenes to haue rightyng.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)201/24 : If þere be medled a litel of good wyne with þe forsaide þinges, þat it may make hem to entre, it were nouȝt longe fro riȝtinge [*Ch.(1): riȝtnez; L rectitudine].
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)295 : Þis arowe ouȝte..be so myche ouer bowid into þe contrarie side how myche availiþ into þe seid riȝting of þe same arowe, sauyng alwey his substaunce fro breking.
- a1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)70/34 : Vnto a-noþer thyng it [justice] is correccion of wronge and rightyng of weightes.
b
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)8/27 : Heo summe nolden of þam Iudeisce his lare underfon ne his sæðnysse heom sylfe to rihtinge.
- a1400 Primer (StJ-C G.24)96 : I schal schryue to the in riȝtynge [Cmb: dressyng; L directione] of herte.
- ?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)2.28.100a : He þat wil come to þis magnifiynge, drede not þis riȝtinge, for þat is þe way.
- ?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)2.34.111b : Þe riȝtynge of a synful soule þurȝ forgifnes of synnes is arettid..principally to þe wirkynge of þe holy gost.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)44.8 : Thi setil, god, in warld of warld: wande of rightynge [L virga direccionis], wande of thi kyngdome..the wand..is wand of rightynge, that rightis krokid men.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)118.7 : In rightynge of hert i sall shrife til the, in that that i hafe lerid þe domes of thi rightwisnes.
c
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)118.54 : Þy riȝtinges [vr. riȝtfulnesses] were songelich to me.
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)118.80 : Be myn hert made vnfiled..in þy riȝtinges [L justificationibus], þat ich ne be nouȝt confounded.
- a1400 NVPsalter (Vsp D.7)98.4 : Þou graiþhed rightinges [WB(1): riȝtforth reulingis; L directiones]; dome nou And rightwisnes in Iacob made þou.
d
- c1390 Mirror St.Edm.(2) (Vrn)623 : Ordre of presthod is maad..Vs to serue lasse and more Of Sacramens and vre rihtynges.
- c1450(c1400) Rev.Jul.Norwich (Add 37790)40/9 : I wolde þat this bodylye syekenes myght have beene so harde as to the dede, so that I myght in the sekenes take alle my ryghtynges of halye kyrke, wenande myselfe that I schulde dye.
- c1450(c1400) Rev.Jul.Norwich (Add 37790)41/6 : On the ferthe nyght I toke alle my ryghttynges of haly kyrke and wenyd nought tylle haue lyffede tylle daye.
- c1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)62/23 : She wold not þat worthy Estur day be withowte here ryghtynges.
e
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.963 : Ic gife Crist & Sancte Peter..Ðas land..saca & socne, toll & team & infangenþef; Þas rihting & ealle oðre, ða cweðe ic scyr Crist & S. Peter.
- a1400 NVPsalter (Vsp D.7)96.2 : Rightwisenes and dome als-swa, Rightinge [WB(1): coreccioun; WB(2): amending; L correctio] of his sete ere þa.
f
- ?a1425 Siege Jerus.(1) (Lamb 491)277 : Rightyng [Ld: Þan was rotlyng in Rome].