Middle English Dictionary Entry
adressing ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | adressing ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Control; (b) correction.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)5.pr.4.100 : Men seen the cartere worken in the tornynge or in atemprynge or adressynge [L moderandis] of his cartes or chariottes.
b
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)93/36 : Amendyng of wronge, and adressynge of stature, & shape of mesure.