Middle English Dictionary Entry
blaundishen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | blaundishen v. Also blandishen, bloundisen. |
| Etymology | AF; cp. CF blandiss-, extended stem of blandir. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To flatter (sb.), fawn, be enticing or persuasive; (b) to be favorable; (c) ~ in, ?to acquiesce in (sth.); (d) of the sea: to subside, become calm.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.376 : He dooth synne..if he flatere or blandise [vrr. blaundise, blandisshe, blandische, blaundissh] moore than hym oghte.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.4272 : Hir [Cressida's] wordis white, softe & blaundyshynge, Wer meynt with feynyng & with flaterie.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)2.pr.1.31 : Whan sche [Fortune] was blaundyssching [L blandientem].
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)3.m.12.22 : He [Orpheus] tempride his blaundysschinge [L blanda] songes by resounynge strenges.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)1.2992 : She [Fortune] can hem [tyrants] blandisshen with hir flatrye.
- c1480(1422) Lydg.SD (Add 48031)50/26 : Fortvnes blavndisshing & favourable covntenaunce.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)1.1 : He spekis..bloundisand [vr. blandysshande] til vs, hightand blisfulhed til rightwisemen.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)90.13 : The dragoun..that bloundiss with the heuyd & smytes with the tayle.
b
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.840 : As þe bonys renne to and fro..Now blaundisschyng, & now þei be contrarie.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.3761 : Whan agreable was þe morwe gray, Blaundissinge and plesant of delit.
c
- a1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)44/5 : Consenters or suche as haue power to resiste and do it nat, and suche as blandisch in the fortune of synne, and sewe the bruyte and folowe the vanytees therof, bene parteners and norischers of synne, and yeve a grette boldenesse for men to do eville and to continewe in the same.
d
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.454 : Þe tempest somdel gan with-drawe, And of her wepyng blaundische gan þe waw.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.3388 : Þe water calme, blaundischyng and stille, With-oute trouble of any boystous wawe.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)2.pr.2.49 : The see..to ben somtyme calm and blaundysschyng [L blandiri] with smothe watir.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)6.169 : Now is the se calm and blandisshyng.