Middle English Dictionary Entry
chalenǧer n.
Entry Info
| Forms | chalenǧer n. Also chalangeour, chalongour. |
| Etymology | Partly from OF, partly from the ME verb. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) One who makes false charges, slanders, or inflicts injury; fals ~; (b) one who disputes something, objector; (c) a claimant.
Associated quotations
a
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)71.4 : He shal meken þe fals chalangeours [L calumniatorem].
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Job 35.9 : For the multitude of chalengeres [WB(2): fals chalengeris; L calumniatorum] thei shul crie, and ȝelle out for the fors of the arm of tirauntis.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ps.71.4 : He schal make low the false chalengere [WB(1): acusere].
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)330 : Blasphemers, chiders, chalengers [L calumniatores].
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)58 : Chalanger: calumpniator.
b
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)559 : If the chalenger wole contynue in his chalenging and seie thus, 'It is better..for not to loue the money ouer myche than forto absteyne fro touching it', the frere myȝte graunte it weel.
c
- [ (c1290) Britton 1 (Lamb 403)58 : La chose soit deliveré au chalengeour. ]
- (1449) in Rymer's Foedera (1709-10)11.245a : All the Claymers and Chalongours of the said Landez shall, in evyn maner, Entircomyn in the same.