Middle English Dictionary Entry
clǒuting ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | clǒuting ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Patching, mending; (b) fig. addition, esp. by way of mistaken amendment; (c) palliation.
Associated quotations
a
- (1432) *Acc.GrantchesterW.B.1 : For clowtyng of ij peyre schon.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)84 : Clowtynge of clothys: Sartura. Clowtynge or coblynge: Rebroccacio.
- (1469) Stonor1.102 : Half a foote of cloutyng ledyr.
b
- (1395) Wycl.37 Concl.(Tit D.1)131 : Holy scripture..suffiseth to saluation without sinfull mans clouting.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.84 : How shulden blynde foolis after amende þis reule þat Crist haþ ȝovun?..first þer clouting of þer reule.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.85 : How myȝte þe fend for shame combre men wiþ sich cloutinge?
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.354 : And clouting of þis word Marie to þis gretinge of þe angel is not worþ ful myche pardone.
- ?c1430 Wycl.8 SSChr.(Corp-C 296)448 : Cristis clene religion..wiþouten cloutynge to of errouris of foolis and synful men.
- a1500(1413) *Pilgr.Soul (Eg 615)2.10.32a : Heretikes..peruerte the sentence of holy scripture be..clowtyng with vicious adinuencions the lawe of Crist is Gospelle.
c
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)115b/a : The rewle of palliacioun i. of hydinge or of clowtynge forth [*Ch.(1): gouernaunce palliatif] haþ þre entenciouns.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)115b/b : Couerynge or clowtynge forthe [L palliando] schall be declynede.