Middle English Dictionary Entry
suspending(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | suspending(e ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Suspension of a patient (by the legs) as a medical treatment for rupture; (b) the act of barring (sb. from doing sth.) or an instance of it; removal from a benefice; exclusion from the sacraments, excommunication; also, fig. the act of suspending truth and maintenance of God's law; sentence of ~.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)144b/a : 3a. þing is complete bi reducyng of þe entrale wiþ hond..& wiþ euaporacioun with hote cloþez And with suspendyng [Ch.(2): honginge; L suspensione] & raisyng vp bi þe leggez & þe haunchez.
b
- (1395) Wycl.37 Concl.(Tit D.1)60 : A! hou greet abhominacioun..that so greet a lord..of the world hath power grauntid of the bisshop of Rome, or of othere bisshopis..to forbede massis and the prechinge of Goddis word..and to forbede vndir peyne of suspendinge and of enterditinge of prestis and of chirchis these souereyn officis of preestis or of curatis, which Jesu Crist commendide ful moche.
- a1425(?c1384) Wycl.Church (Bod 788)361 : Now were it for to speke last of censures..as ben suspendingis [Dub: suspendis], enterditingis, cursingis, and reisingis of croiserie.
- ?c1430(c1400) Wycl.Prelates (Corp-C 296)80 : Sumtyme men weren forboden of trewe prestis to vse & do sacramentis in open cursed lif, & þat is trewe suspendynge.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)326 : Þat al þo which lyuyn..in contrarie maner to eny comaundid poynt of þi lawe..and wole not amende hem, þat þe preest punysche hem bi suspending hem from entring into þe bodili chirche or bi suspending hem from housil or eukarist or suspending hem from al comunyng wiþ cristen peple.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)61/15 : Þei ȝaf a lawful sentens of suspendyng, or of cursyng, or of enterdyȝtyng, on kyng or on prynce.
- a1500(?c1378) Wycl.OPastor.(Ryl Eng 86)456 : Siche curatis moten arme hem wiþ help of god..for cursingis & suspendingis wolen renne aȝenus siche curatis..þis hangyng vp vsid nou is not so fel but fals ynow; for þey wolen hange vp treuþe & mayntenyng of goddis lawe; & þei ponderen wiþ þis suspending þat þei don it for riȝtwisenesse, to teche curatis obedience & mekenesse bi goddis lawe.