Middle English Dictionary Entry
cēsing(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | cēsing(e ger. Also cess-, sec-. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Cessation, termination, stopping; desisting; relinquishing (of office); staunching (of blood); (b) ~ dai, day of resting from labor; (c) withoute(n ~, continuously, incessantly.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)79a/b : Reste is cesinge of businesse.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.3438 : Pes & quiete..With-oute strife..With ful ceessyng of deth & pestilence.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)155a/a : If þe vertue is feble..be it [bloodletting] diuided by sedacionz i. cesyngez [*Ch.(2): staunchynges; L sedationes] and tymez.
- (1436) RParl.4.502a : Hit sholde cause sesyng of gret part of the commune perjurie used among hem.
- (1439) Proc.Privy C.5.358 : The grette goodes as shall ensue of cessint [read: cessinc] of these werres.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)64 : Cecynge; Cessacio.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)451 : Secynge: Cessacio, desistencia.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)113/31 : Aftir þe ceesyng of þe tempest.
- (1455) RParl.5.308a : Immediatly after the seasyng..of Maister John Lathum Clerk, havynge the seid Deanry.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)156/32 : Alle þo comaundementis ȝouun to Jewis, which ceesen with þe ceesing of Jewis state, ben forboden to cristen men.
- c1475 St.Anne(2) (Trin-C R.3.21)511 : To seasyng of all stryfe.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)22b : A Cessynge: Cessacio, deficio, jntermissio.
- a1500(a1471) Ashby APP (Cmb Mm.4.42)865 : Whan ye be in doubte of any Reulyng..Better is of al thise to make cesing Vntil time that god you illumine.
b
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Lev.23.2 : Thes ben the cesynge dayes [WB(2): feries; L feriæ] of the Lord.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)18a/b : He haþ fre auysement, but it..bendiþ alwey to euel wiþoute cesinge.
- a1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)8356 : I salle þe mercyes syng Of our Loverd, ay with-outen cesyng.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)20/1 : Sumtyme duryng in wepyng ij owyres..wyth-owtyn sesyng.
- a1475 Rev.St.Bridget(3) (Gar 145)61/22 : The angell of God shyneth withoute sesyng by the lyght of God.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)144.2 : Day bi day..withouten cessynge, in wele and in wa.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1467) Acc.Howard in RC 57 ()402 : Item, for the copy of the prosses ayeyns my mastyr in the Escheker, xij. d..for alowans and sesynge of the processe, iiij s., iiij d.
Note: New sense.
Note: I think this may be 'ceasing' of the process--the plaintiff was bought off by the allowance. We don't have any specific support for such a reading under cē̆en v. or allǒua(u)nce n., but the form is okay.--per KC
Note: The first part of this quot. is found under prō̆ces n., sense 4.(d), where 'prosses' refers to "a legal document". The second instance, 'processe,' belongs to sense 4.(a), "a course of legal proceedings, legal action, a lawsuit."
Note: Gloss: To terminate (a legal proceeding), quash.
Note: This quot. has been taken back to books.--per MLL
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.27rb (2.2) : Alle is no more for to saie but cessing and endyng of þe malady.
Note: Additional quot., sense (a).
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.72ra (2.10) : In þe pleuresie is grete peyn and ake in þe side & vnder the ribbes & cowh and grete disese of drawyng of honde & febre wiþouten interpolacioun, i. wiþouten sessyng.
Note: Additional quot., sense (c). New spelling: sessing.