Middle English Dictionary Entry
soiling(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | soiling(e ger. Also soilling. |
| Etymology | From soilen v.(4). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The act of granting forgiveness, absolution; (b) an explanation, interpretation, answer; ~ oute, an exposition or a setting forth (according to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet); (c) a refutation.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)29535 : Gain cursing gode all es be-warr, And if þou wat þou ert þair-in, His soilling seke wit-vten blin.
- a1425 Wycl.VOct.(Bod 788)381 : Þese men sillen her soilynge, siþ þei marken to hem þis moneie.
- c1425(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)67 : Þe causis are to be peysid, and þan power of bynding and soiling is to be vsid.
- a1500(c1380) Wycl.Papa (Ryl Eng 86)481 : Þis was lymytid to petre & hise þat suyden þe steppis þat petre wente, & whanne þer soyling & þer bynding acordide wiþ god in heuene.
b
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Lam.head.p.239 : Her begynneþ þe lamentacioun of Jeremy, þat is in title Cenoth, with þe soiling out of Ebrue lettres.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Dan.2.25 : Y haue foundun a man of the sones of passyng ouer of Juda, that schal telle the soilyng [WB(1): the solucioun] to the kyng.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Dan.4.3 : Alle the wise men of Babiloyne..schulden schewe to me the soilyng of the dreem.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.386 : Crist washide her feet and wipte hem wiþ a cloiþ..and þanne he putte in dede soilyng of þis questioun.
c
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Wisd.8.8 : It knowith þe felnesses of woordis & þe soilingis [WB(2): asoilyngis; L dissolutiones] of argumentis.