Middle English Dictionary Entry
bāthing ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | bāthing ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Bathing, a bath; (b) a curative bath or ablution, fomentation; (c) ~ fat, a bathtub; ~ place, a Roman bath, a hot spring.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)191/15 : Icchinge & scabbe..falliþ ofte to hem þat..vsiþ no baþing.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)33a/b : Flee he baþinge [*Ch.(1): baþ] and alle þinges þat moysten.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)14417 : Malgo..At Wynchestre, at his baþynge, Sodeynly mad he his endynge.
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)3.1071 : Be-forn her weddyng to haue a bathyng, ffor to make hir swete.
- a1475 *Hrl.Diseases Hawk A (Hrl 2340)25a : Loke þat þi hawke hafe..euery iii day bathyng.
- a1500 GRom.(Add 9066)264 : A Bere..of whos bathyng all the watir was enfecte with venyme.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)94a/a : Þe cause of þe euel schal be swagid..wiþ baþinges and hetinges.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)41b/a : Baþinge and frotynge with þe water of decoccioun..of roses..ben beste.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)73/17 : Veyr ys hoot and moyst..No tyme ys bettir to latyng of blood, and..vse of bathynge and swetynge.
c
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.221 : Baþinge places þat all wey were hote.
- c1450(c1400) Vices & V.(2) (Hnt HM 147)224/4 : Schrift, þat is þe baþing fatt wher men and wommen scholde alday wasche hem.
- a1475(a1447) Bokenham MAngl.(Hrl 4011)18/45 : Grete baþyngeplacis.