Middle English Dictionary Entry
sẹ̄ǧing(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | sẹ̄ǧing(e ger. Also sigging & (error) seieng. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The act or process of besieging; leien ~, to lay a siege; (b) the state of being under siege, the fact of being besieged; (c) a hostage; -- mistransl. of L obses; (d) the act of evacuating the bowels, defecation.
Associated quotations
a
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)7614 : Lete we hem now at þis segeing And schewe werres and wo.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)1661 : Now resteþ Alisaunder jn þis siggyng [LinI: segyng].
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)47b : They hadde..alle manere gynnes & gettes þat nedful is [vr. is to] taking or seging of castel or of citee.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)13.58 : Tholomes, that Crwel kyng, There-Abowtes wil leyn his Seieng [read: Seigeng].
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)255 : Thenne the duke besegid long this castelle; And as thei wer thus in segeing, [etc.].
- a1500(?a1475) Guy(4) (Cmb Ff.2.38)8742 : The dewke myght spede nothynge Of that ylke longe segeynge.
b
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Deut.28.55 : Þe flesch of his sonys..he shal etyn, forþy þat no þyng oþer he haue in þe segynge [WB(2): biseging; L obsidione] & scarsnes.
- a1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)7070 : Men of troy faght for þair land..þe seging lastid ten ȝere.
- a1425(c1384) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Ezek.4.8 : Y..cumpaside thee with boondis..til thou fulfille the dais of thi segynge.
c
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Mac.1.11 : Antiochus..was at Rome in seegyng or plegge [WB(2): ostage; L obses].
d
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)95b/b : In þe acte of segeyng [Ch.(2): esynge; L assellandi], be þe neþer more partiez dipped or wette in water of decoccioun of malwes.