Middle English Dictionary Entry
tolling(e ger.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | tolling(e ger.(1) Also (early) tollingue, tollunge. |
| Etymology | From tollen v.(1). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The act of enticing; also, the act of provoking, inciting; also, instigation; (b) pulling, tugging; struggling, fighting; (c) a sounding of a bell, tolling.
Associated quotations
a
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)62/20 : Ah putten hond utward bute hit beo for nede is wohunge efter grome & tollunge [Tit: tollinge] of his eorre.
- c1300 SLeg.Mich.(LdMisc 108)379 : For-soþe, he deoth vuele I-nouvȝ þat comez in his tollingue; He wole him bringue euere ner ant ner In deoppore suneguyngue, Atenende In-to þe putte of helle.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)496 : Tollynge, styrynge, or mevynge to good or badde: Instigacio, excitacio.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)133/31 : Þis þat was sette þerto, 'þat þou be of long lijf'..was no comaundement; but it was a bihetyng or a prouoking or tolling forto kepe þis comaundement.
b
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)5304 : King Medlan..feld Do..Þe helme hadde him bireued, Forto smite of his heued; No man no miȝt him binim, Þat vnsely wiþþerwin, Bot Wawain, þat bi him cam, And he him of his tolling nam.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)8839 : Þen was no bote to [byd a]byde, bot ylkon shope oþer to shend; Of all þer tolyng in þat tyd ware lang to tell bot loke þe ende.
c
- ?c1450 in Aungier Syon Mon.307 : Euery brother do hys office aboute the auter in holdyng of tapers, sensour, torches, and in tollynges after the gosbel.