Middle English Dictionary Entry
wissing(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | wissing(e ger. Also (early) wissingue, wissunge, wissunȝe; pl. (early dat.) wissungum. |
| Etymology | From wissen v. & OE wissung. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. iwissunge ger.
1.
(a) Teaching, instruction; also in fig. context; the giving of instruction; also, counsel, guidance; also, an instruction;
(b) ordination, disposition, regulation;
(c) the setting or identification of a route, leading; also, direction [last quot.];
(d) the provision of a duct; also [1st quot.], a path;—used fig.; water ~, a watercourse.
Associated quotations
a
- a1150(?OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)21/26 : Þiss he forewitegode þurh God sylfne & þurh his wissunge.
- a1200(?OE) Cmb.Hom.(Cmb Ii.1.33)111/276 : He bebyrȝed wære þurh Godes wissunȝe.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)11830 : Uss birrþ sone þannkenn himm Hiss wissinng & hiss lare.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)99 : We hauen ure sinnes forleten and bi shriftes wissenge bet.
- a1225 Wint.Ben.Rule (Cld D.3)19/19 : Heo…mot…abuȝan suman mid olecunge & suman mid þrætunge & suman mid wissungum.
- a1250 HMaid.(Tit D.18)23/371 : Mon þat schulde haue wit, & do al þat he dude after hire wissinge, folheð þat fulðe in eauer euch time.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)255 : Bihoueð us to rennen to cristes quike welle…drinken his wissing; it quenchet ilc siniging.
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)364/29 : After þe wissingue of seint phelip alle heore lijf huy guonne lede.
- a1325 SLeg.Swithin (Corp-C 145)39 : Þoru heste of þe kyng and þoru is wissinge also Echman wolde þoru al þe lond is teþinge wel do.
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)129/82 : Aȝens þe feend þou make me strong, And ȝyf me þy wyssynge.
- a1400(c1300) NHom.(1) John & Boy (Phys-E)p.116 : Thoru wissing of goddes law Biganne man sin forto knaw.
- ?a1450(?c1400) Wycl.LFCatech.(Lamb 408)5/34 : Al þe knawynge þat we haue in þis werld of hym ys of herynge and larnynge and wyssynge of othyr.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)8151 : This wot I full well, thurgh wisshyng of hom, That þis sorow wilnot sese…Tyll the toun be…tumblid to ground.
b
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)12/67 : Al þe world is iweld þurh his wissunge.
- a1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.120 : God…ȝaf man and womman wyȝt and discrecioun to gouernyn hemself…be þe lyght and þe wyssyng of tyme.
- a1500 Wars Alex.(Dub 213)3256 : Þe wyssyng of þe wale god, þat wist all before, And fully fele all þe fare þat falle shuld on erth, On þis maner made he man þorow hys myght first.
c
- a1150(?OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)132/25 : Ferde þa lutigende geond heges & weges, geond wudes & feldes, swa þæt he þurh Godes wissunge gesund becom to Æðelingege.
- a1425 HBk.GDei (Hnt HM 148)83/14 : Thre kynges come of sere landes to hym…thurgh wyssynge of a sterne þat led þaim þe way.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)293 : Ledynge, or wyssynge: Ducatus.
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)126/12 : God graunte me happe to haue Wissyng of redy waye.
d
- (1357) Gaytr.LFCatech.(Yk-Borth R.I.11)94/542 : Idelnesse is…witter wissyng and wai till alkyns vices.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)11942 : Wit nith…and iuel witt þe water wissing can he ditt, þat water to þe lak broght.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)1606 : The water by wisshyng went vnder houses, Gosshet through Godardys & other grete vautes.