Middle English Dictionary Entry
bringing ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | bringing ger. Also bringgin. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Act of bringing or carrying; ~ on erthe, burial; ~ in, bringing to righteousness, salvation; ~ to outrance, destruction, ruin; (b) ~ forth, childbearing, begetting; production; ~ in, act of introducing, founding, establishing; ~ togeder, combining; ~ up, rearing, upbringing; (c) ~ in, a device, an invention.
Associated quotations
a
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.1429 : Discomfeture & bringyng to outraunce -- Al lyth in hem [the gods].
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.3446 : Venus..þe Grekis..Honoured most..With ȝiftes bringyng and with pilgrimage.
- (c1433) EEWills92/11 : Y wyll, as towchyng my bryngyng on erth..that ther be a-bowt my body iiij tapers.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)51 : Bryngynge: Allatura.
- (?1440) Paston2.45 : I sende yow gode tydynggs of the comyng, and the brynggyn hoom, of the gentylwomman..fro Redham.
- (1446) Doc.in Morsbach Origurk.32 : The seyd william Palmere schall..bringe home all the heie..he schall dyne or suppe there, at þe bryngyng home.
- a1475(1450) Scrope DSP (Bod 943)120/31 : To gouerne him softly, it is his distruccion [Other MSS: instruccion] and his bringinge in [DSPhilos.: a redusynge into goodnesse].
b
- a1425(?c1384) Wycl.Church (Bod 788)347 : And þus bringing in of newe ordres..techen þat he is traitour to God.
- ?c1425 Craft Number.(Eg 2622)21/11 : Multiplicacion is a bryngynge to-geder of 2 thynges in on nombur.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)82 : Þou bryngist or brouȝtist forþ the sone and þe holigoost, bi þe same skile þou myȝtist ȝitt eftsonys cese from þe bryngyng forþ of þe same persoonys.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)11/21 : Teche first þe causis and þe bryngyngis forþ of moral vertues.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)85/16 : Alle þese bringyngis forþ ben doon withynne þe same substaunce.
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)193/27 : Hys modyr..sufferd soo moch pyne yn bryngyng forth of hym.
- c1500(1463) Ashby Pris.(Trin-C R.3.19)58 : I gan remembre..My bryngyng vp from chyldhod hedyrto.
c
- a1500(?c1378) Wycl.OPastor.(Ryl Eng 86)447 : Þes foure ordris..tellen not first cristis ordenaunse, but bringing yn of þe fend to reuerse þe ordenaunse of crist.