Middle English Dictionary Entry
spilling(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | spilling(e ger. Also (error) splillyng. |
| Etymology | From spillen v.; also cp. OE spilling. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Destruction, ruin, loss; death; (b) the shedding of blood; blod ~; (c) a pouring out, an effusion; also fig.; (d) letting fall, spilling; ?wasting; also, something that spills [2nd quot.].
Associated quotations
a
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)469 : Spyllynge or lesynge or schendynge: Confusio, deperdicio.
- c1440(a1400) Awntyrs Arth.(Thrn)254 : The holy goste..enspyres alle sperites, with owttyne spillynge, For to come to..blysse.
- c1450 Lond.Chron.Cleo.(Cleo C.4)133 : The forsayd barge..overwhelmyd, the wiche whas cause of spylleng of many a gentylman.
- (c1456) Pecock Faith (Trin-C B.14.45)226 : Manye men..han be cause of her owne spilling, and of othere mennys spilling..bi cause thei wolden nedis the schippe schulde be governed aftir hem.
b
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.184 : Þis lond salle be ȝours..Withouten mo stours or blode spillyng of men.
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)5.1631 : He dede neuere man good; he is cause of spillyng of mekel gentel blood.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)29.11 : What profit is in spillynge of my blode?
- a1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)5985 : Of blood spillyng men shul deie.
c
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)5425 : Wan þay were to-gadre y-met, Spillyng of speche þar was gret y-mad bytwene hem þanne.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)469 : Spyllynge or owt powrynge: Effusio.
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)355 : A Spyllynge: perfusio; perfundens participium.
d
- a1425 Rolle FLiving (Arun 507)413 : Oþer mani synnes are, as omission..of splillyng [read: spillyng] of cromes, brede, or ale, or oþer mete or drinke.
- 1790(1471-1472) Ordin.Househ.Edw.IV(2) (Topham)76 : He ought..to have noe fee of any cleane wynes soe longe as it may renne, but droppinges and spyllinges.