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† ˈgerish, a.
[f. gere + -ish.]
Changeful, fitful; wild, wayward.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 243 In gerysshe Marche toward the ariete. Ibid. 245 Now gerysshe glad, and anoon aftir wrothe. Ibid. 254 The sesoun of my yeerys greene..The gerisshe sesoun, straunge of condiciouns, Dispoosyd to many unbridlyd passiouns. 1430–40― Bochas vi. i. 53 And as a swalowe gerissh of hir flight Twene sloughth & swyft nowe croked nowe vpright. 1530Palsgr. 312/2 Gerysshe wylde or lyght heeded, farouche. 1547Boorde Brev. Health xliii. 13 b, The Extravagante, Madnesse that doth infest a man ones in a mone the whiche doth cause one to be geryshe, and waverynge witted, not constant, but fantasticall.
Hence † ˈgerishness, wildness, waywardness.
1494Fabyan Chron. 4 Of Walys Geryshnesse and of theyr lyght dotage. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. xiii. 75 As for this diuelish geerishnesse which the wicked haue to ouerthrowe Gods Children withall. |