Middle English Dictionary Entry
strǒuting(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | strǒuting(e ger. Also strottinge, (errors) strowynge, stowtynge. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Dispute, strife, contention; (b) swelling, protruding; a swelling, protrusion; ~ oute; ~ of the navele, pathol. umbilical hernia; (c) proud or vain display of clothes; (d) walking proudly, swaggering, strutting.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)226/14 : But þanne noon clerk..replie aȝens me..as late in lijk caas greet stroutyng and noysyng in replicacioun haþ be maad aȝens me in oþir mater.
b
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)52/15 : Þe vlne..in þe ynner partie..haþ a manere litel..struttynge [*Ch.(1): eminence; L eminentiam], and byhynde it haþ a manere of holownesse.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)355/15 : In the vnioyntinge of þe nekke..drawe hym vpward by þe chynne or be þe heres or by þe eeres, and þriste the schuldres downward with þy feete, and þriste yn the strottynge oute.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)442/1-3 : Of strottynge or of waxynge greet of all þe eyȝe and of þe contrarie, lenenesse and of þe smalnes þerof: Waxynge grete and struttynge oute of þe eyȝen is made þrefolde after Avicen.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)499/31 : Strutting of þe navil, or hernya ventralis, folweþ as it were þe dome of hernyes, i. of swellynges, of þe priue stones.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)500/1 : Þe cause and the tokenes of soche struttynges oute [*Ch.(1): eminencez; L eminentiarum] ben þoo þat ben of hernyes and of aneurismus.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)41 : Bocynge or strowtynge [Win: be-strowtyng]: Turgor.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)480 : Stowtynge [read: Strowtynge; Win: Strowynge]: Turgor, turgi[di]tas.
c
- c1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)3.121 : For ben þey rayed arith þey recchith no forther, But studieth all in strouutynge and stireth amys euere..All his witte in his wede ys wrappid for sothe.
- c1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)3.134 : Þey..hopen to be hied in hast, yif þey myȝthe, Þoru swiche stif strouutynge þat stroyeth þe rewme.
d
- c1450(c1405) Mum & S.(2) (Add 41666)1193 : Þay stumblen after stroutyng and stappen no ferther, But lyen dovne on þe diche.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. strutting.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. strutting of the navel.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. strutting out.