Middle English Dictionary Entry
abetting ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | abetting ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Urging, encouragement, abetting.
Associated quotations
- ?a1425 Chaucer TC (Hnt HM 114)2.357 : Abettyng [crit.ed.: If that I sholde assente, Thorugh myn abet, that he [Troilus] thyn honour shente].
- (a1443) *Pet.Chanc.PRO ser.CP 1 file 12no.196 : William Thomas knyght, Thomas Herbert Squier..by exitacion and abbettyng of oon John Twenyng monke..with stronge honde and grete multitude..in the saide Priorie entred.