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▪ I. wresting, vbl. n.|ˈrɛstɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The action of twisting, or turning awry; the fact of being wrested. Also with off.
1398[see wrenching vbl. n. 1]. 1548Elyot, Torsio,..a writhyng, a wrestyng. 1578Lyte Dodoens 367 Branches which will not easily breake with wresting or playing. a1600Montgomerie's Cherrie & Slae 276 (Laing MS.), Ane fysche fanggit in þe net,.. With wreisting and thrysting, The faster stykis scho. a1610Healey Epictetus (1636) 79 In thy walkes thou hast a care to avoide..the wresting of thy feete. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Distorsion,..a wresting or wringing several Ways. 1730Bailey (fol.), Sprain,..a violent Contorsion or Wresting of the Tendons of the Muscles. 1892Zangwill Bow Mystery x. 135 Never dreaming the wresting off [sc. of a staple] had been done beforehand.
transf.1632Lithgow Trav. x. 480 The wresting of the Inquisition vpon me.
†b. Adjustment of the strings of a musical instrument by tightening with a wrest; tuning in this way. Also in fig. context. Obs.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 341 Many men failen in þis wrastyng [of a harp] & in goostly syngyng aftur. c1440Promp. Parv. 533/2 Wrestynge, plectura, plexura. c1500Proverbis in Antiq. Rep. (1809) IV. 407 A slac strynge in a Virgynall..dothe abyde no wrestinge, it is so louse and light. 1530Rastell Bk. Purgat. ii. xviii. e 1 b, A harper..occupyed about y⊇ wrastynge of his harpe strynges. 1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Fam. Love 26 b, When he..with writhyng and wrestyng had brought his heresie into tune. 1627Hakewill Apol. ii. i. §4 The wresting of a string too high marres the musick.
c. fig. The action of taking away or obtaining by force; exaction; extortion.
1611Cotgr., Extorsion,..a violent wringing, or wresting of things from others. 1694tr. Milton's Lett. State Wks. 1851 VIII. 339 The wresting of the Kingdom of Poland from Papal Subjection. 1721Bailey, Extortion, an unlawful and violent wresting of Money, &c. from any Man. 1853Kingsley Misc. (1859) I. 289 His wresting from her the secret which had been locked for ages in the ice caves.
†d. With in: (see wrest v. 1 c). Obs.
1597Morley Introd. Mus. 124 The vnpleasantnesse of it commeth of the wresting in of the point.
2. Perversion, distortion, or deflection of the meaning, interpretation, or application; misinterpretation; an instance of this.
c1444Pecock Donet 140 Prechers ben woned to wrynge oute of a worde alle maters whiche to hem liken, bi wrasting of sillablis and of lettris. Ibid. 142. 1550 Bale Eng. Votaries ii. 66 Blasphemouse bablynges and abhomynable wrastynges of the scriptures. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 473 He hath nothing that may not bee reasonably construed on our side without any wresting. 1587Golding De Mornay xxix. 528 It were an vtter wresting of the Text, to conuey it any other way. 1610Healey Theophrastus (1636) 4 A wresting of actions and wordes to the worse or sadder part. 1641Milton Reform. i. Wks. 1851 III. 19 The ridiculous wresting of Scripture. 1690Locke Govt. ii. iii. §20 A manifest perverting of Justice, and a barefac'd wresting of the Laws. 1711Atterbury Serm. (1734) I. 267 Expressions..so bright and clear, as should prevent all possible Wrestings and Misconstructions. a1774Tucker Lt. Nat. (1777) III. ii. 61 Aiming to find out such a sense of them [sc. principles of human reason], without violence or wresting, as may coincide or prove reconcileable therewith. 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel i. (1876) 5 If a prophecy..admitted of no wresting.
†3. The action of contending or struggling; an instance of this. Obs.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 180 Be lowly not sollen, if ought go amisse, What wresting may loose thee, that winne with a kisse. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 355 Their dayly exercise then was a continuall wresting agaynst the world, and the Devill. 1613–8Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 140 Discontentment still goes on, and neither side get any thing but by hard wrestings.
†4. Griping or wringing pain. Obs.—1
1546T. Phaer Regim. Life 59 In suche a disease, the glystre muste be greate in quantitie, or els ye shulde make wrestynge & roumblynge in y⊇ bellye.
5. Comb., as † wresting-vice, stick, one suitable for or used in wresting or twisting; wresting thread Shetland dial., a thread wound or tied round a sprained or injured limb as a charm to effect a cure.
1568W. Skinner tr. Montanus Inquis. (1569) 26 b, Hys armes..are bound with very stiffe and small cordes..which afterwards they straine with certaine stiffe wresting stickes or troncheons. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 9 The hang⁓man prepared both hookes and wresting-vices. 1616[see wrest n. 1 c]. 1840New Statist. Acc. (1845) XV. 141 The ‘wresting thread’..is a thread spun from black wool, on which are cast nine knots, and tied round a sprained leg or arm. 1883R. M. Fergusson Rambling Sk. 122 When a person received a sprain the Wrestin Thread was cast.
▪ II. ˈwresting, ppl. a. rare.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That wrests or twists; in quot. fig.
c1520Skelton Magnyf. 1608 Let your Lust and Lykynge stande for a lawe. Be wrastynge and wrythynge, and away drawe.
Hence ˈwrestingly adv.
1613R. Yong in Zouch Dove A 3 b, But Love breaks forth,..And wrestingly, out of my wonted lynes, It makes me shuffle in these hobling rymes. |