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† ˈgestening, ˈgestning Obs.
Also 3–5 gesning, -yng, 4 gistning, gistenynge, gistynnyng.
[Of Scandinavian origin: cf. OSw. gästning, gis(t)-, ges(t)-, etc., f. gästa v. to lodge as a guest, f. gäst-er = ON. gest-r guest; in ON. only gisting (f. gista vb.) is found.]
Entertainment as a guest, lodging, hospitality. Also, a banquet, feast.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 93 Þis dai haueð ure drihten..ȝiarked þat holie gestninge þe he offe specð þus queðinde, Ecce prandium meum paratum. a1300Floriz & Bl. 82 Floriz..hopede come to þat gesninge. a1300Vox & Wolf 256 To colde gistninge he was i-bede. c1340Cursor M. 11750 (Fairf.) Þer þai fande na knawinge of quam þai muȝt aske gesteninge. a1400in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 241 Matheu hat mad a grete gestenyng te Ihesu at home in his whonyyng. c1425Wyntoun Cron. vi. xv. 1638 The Kyng tuk wyth the mylnare hys gesnyng. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 975 That all that wantis harbery Suld haue gestning. 1513Douglas æneis x. viii. 56, I the beseyk, thou mychty Hercules, Be my faderis gestnyng. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (1858) I. 250 King Caratac that gestnyng bocht rycht deir. 1584Hudson Du Bartas' Judith vi. 108 Go fear not again: Wilt thou the sacred gestning then prophane? |