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Middle English
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Etymology
From Old English wiþsecgan (“withsay”), adapted to reflect the change of the verb secgan (“say”) to Middle English seien; equivalent to with- + seien.
Verb
withseien
- to speak against, that is:
- to protest, to deny; to refute, to speak out against, to oppose in speech
c. 1225, “Oðer dale: fif ƿittes”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402), Herefordshire, published c. 1235, folio 22, recto; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 2018 January:[…] he hit ne maȝe naneſƿeiſ allunge wið ſeggen · he þah biuoꝛe þe mon ſeolf makeð hiſ uuel leaſſe ·- that people can't in any way deny it entirely, though they will downplay the man's evil while they're with him.
- c. 1445, in W. P. Baildon, Select cases in Chancery, A.D. 1364 to 1471 (1896), 136:
- to disparage; to denounce
- to contemn, to display contempt for
- to renounce, to repudiate, to give up
- to refuse; to forbid, to refuse permission to
c. 1450, Merlin, published 1899, XIV 204:
- to decline, to refuse to do or accept
c. 1225, “Feorðe dale: fondunges”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402), Herefordshire, published c. 1235, folio 64, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 2018 January:[…] ƿrinnið aȝein feſtluker ⁊ ƿið ſeggeð þe grant þerof ƿið ane ƿile heoꝛte ne pꝛokie hit ſe ſƿiðe ·- and struggle against it with renewed might while denying its cruel provocations with a resolute spirit.
1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum iij”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XIII, by
William Caxton], published
31 July 1485,
→OCLC; republished as H
Oskar Sommer, editor,
Le Morte Darthur , London:
David Nutt,
,
1889,
→OCLC:
- to reply
- (law) to appeal, to contest the validity of a legal decision
- (law) to challenge, to contest the validity of a claim or argument
- (law) to disavow, to contest the validity of an oath
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