Middle English Dictionary Entry
warshipe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | warshipe n. Also worshipe, worshupe, (early) warscipe, warsipe, warchipe, wærscipe, wershipe. |
| Etymology | OE wærscipe, werscipe; spellings in -o- may reflect confusion with worship(e n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. warnes(se n.
1.
(a) Vigilance, heedfulness, cautiousness; also, the conservative approach or course [last quot.]; ?also, a warning, cautioning [3rd quot.];
(b) the moral virtue of prudence, the faculty of discernment or discretion; ?also, wisdom [1st quot.]; ?a reputation for prudence [quot. c1275];
(c) person. a gatekeeper combining the qualities of vigilance and moral discernment;
(d) ?instinctual impulse to self-protectiveness, innate shrewdness.
Associated quotations
a
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)43/28 : Nu wiðcwede we…þeh, for wærscipe gehealdenan geleafen, us gedafeneð þæt we hit wenen swyðer þone we hit unrædlice gereccen þæt þe is uncuð.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)69/11 : Þas þing synd awritene þæt ure mod þurh wærscipe wacole beon.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)104/10 : Þæt is swyðe mycel wærscipe [L cautela] wið synnen, þæt him ælc mann simle Godes andweardnysse ondræde.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)324 : Twifold forbisne in ðis der…we mugen finden her, warsipe & wisedom wið deuel & wið iuel man.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)134b/b : Ȝif þe fistule perse, it maie not liȝtlye ben heled, for it is beste and moste worschipe to leue it.
b
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)36/2 : Þes sunderhalge…næfde nænne wærscipe þæt he þa soðe eadmodnysse on his weldædan geheolde.
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)36/598 : Þet beoð þe uertuz…þet he streoneð in þe…as rihtwissnesse & warschipe.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)139/20 : Þe ȝeteward is wittes skile þet ah to windwin hweate…þet is, þurh bisi warschipe, sundri god from uuel.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)2794 : Belin wes swiðe wis, & warscipe [Otho: warsipe] him folweden.
- c1390 Castle Love(1) (Vrn)802 : Foure vertues cardinals þer beoþ, Þat is, strengþe and sleihschupe, Rihtfulnesse and worschupe [F Prudence].
c
- c1225(?c1200) SWard (Bod 34)6/42 : Wit…cleopeð warschipe forð & makið hire durewart, þe warliche [Roy: þe werschipe] loki hwam ha leote in & ut.
- c1225(?c1200) SWard (Bod 34)6/46 : Strengðe stont nest hire, þet ȝef ei wule in, warschipes vnþonkes, warni strengðe fore.
- c1225(?c1200) SWard (Bod 34)20/189 : Warschipe…haueð wit & schad bituhhe god & uuel & wat hwet is in euch þing to cheosen & to schunien.
d
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)128/14 : Dumbe beastes habbeð þis ilke warschipe [Tit: warchipe], þet hwen ha beoð asailet of wulf oðer of liun, ha þrungeð to gederes…& makieð scheld of ham seolf.