Middle English Dictionary Entry
sēling(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | sēling(e ger. Also selling & (error) solynge. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Affixing of a seal to a document, confirming, making official, or imparting certain legal effect; (b) certifying and sealing of measures; (c) a sealing material imprinted with a seal; ~ wax.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Usages Win.(Win-HRO W/A3/1)p.82 : To weche selynge lat crye þe bans þorgh þe town þe þridde day by-fore þe selynge [vr. sellyng].
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.300 : Þe Scottis vnderstode þat..after þat selyng alle suld þei come, þe barons & þe kyng, & tak of þam hard dome.
- a1475 PPl.A(1) (Hrl 875:Skeat)2.112 : Herto assentid syuyle, but symonye ne wolde tyle he had syluer for his sawes & his selynge [alt. from: seelis; Trin-C: selis & signes].
- (1424) Stonor1.39 : To wyche endenturys lakketh þe selyng of my uncle Belknap, wyche shall ensele þem whanne he com fro beyonde see.
- (1433) RParl.4.479a : xxiiii worthy men, Burgeis of the seid Town..to oversee the takyng out of the seid Seell and Seelyng.
- (1444) RParl.5.125b : Yef he be attached and arrest' for suerte of peas bi eny foreyner or resceant noȝt Burgeys, ne Tenser, that then the Baillifs take for her warant and sealyng therof but xiiii d., and the Clerk for the writing but iiii d.
- (1450) Proc.Chanc.in Cal.PCEliz.2.p.lv : John shall pay..unto..Thomas..in hond at sealyng of this endenture, v li.
- c1450(?a1400) LChart.Chr.B (Cmb Ii.4.9)48/39 : Myne erytage that is so fre In thy myschefe I ȝaf the, And whanne þat solynge [read: selynge] A-ȝeue þe solde, I dyde as þe iewes wolde.
- c1450(c1405) Mum & S.(2) (Add 41666)649 : Clercz were not knowe..by worldly workes of writtes ne seelyng.
- (1459) Paston (EETS)1.90 : The vj day of July next aftir the tyme of the sealing of his wille, made the xiiij day of June.
- c1460 Oseney Reg.119/3 : Þis scripture..to be renewed with newe selynge of þe seale of þe chapiter of Oseneye.
- (1467) in Rymer's Foedera (1709-10)11.579 : That he use not the seid Seel nor make therwith any maner Sealyng but in the presence of thErl of Essex.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)323/18 : & þat þis graunt & gifte sholde be sure, he made hit stronge boþe with his writinge & also with his seelinge.
b
- a1525(?1466) Cov.Leet Bk.334 : Yffe the salters woll make moe mesurys then they shall pay for the selyng of hem.
c
- c1390(?a1325) LChart.Chr.A (Vrn)647/143 : Þe selyng-wax was deore abouȝt..And tempred al wiþ vermiloun Of my rede blod þat ran doun.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Job 38.14 : A seeling [WB(1): litle marke; L signaculum] schal be restorid as cley, and it schal stonde as a cloth.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ecclus.22.33 : Who schal ȝyue keping to my mouth and a certeyn ceelyng on my lippis, that Y falle not bi tho and that my tunge leese not me?