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▪ I. ‖ brigue, n.|brig|
Forms: 4–5 brige, bryge, brygge, brigge, 5 (?) bryke, 7– brigue.
[a. F. brigue (14th c. in Littré) = med.L. briga, It. and Pg. briga, Sp. and Pr. brega. Of uncertain origin: see Diez. The word and its derivatives are extensively developed in Italian: see brigand, etc. Adopted in Eng. in the 14–15th c.; then again from modern Fr. about 1700.]
†1. Strife, quarrel, contention. Obs.
[c1380cf. brike.] c1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋716 Myne Aduersaries han bigonnen this debaat and bryge [v.r. brige, brigge]. c1440Promp. Parv., Bryge or debate, briga, discensio. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) iv. xxiv. 192 Yf they passe ther tyme by retchelesnesse or by bryge, the bysshop shall ordeyne. 1678Littleton Lat. Dict., A brigue or quarrel. Lis, contentio [briga].
‖2. Intrigue, faction. [from mod.F.; much used in the first half of the 18th c.] Obs. (exc. casually).
1701Jura Pop. Anglicani 29 They must set afoot Factions and Brigues. 1720Ozell tr. Vertot's Rom. Rep. I. iii. 171 The Cabals and Brigues of the Patricians. 1752Hume Pol. Disc. xii. 296 Sufficient to prevent brigue and faction. 1753Dial. betw. Swift & Prior 134 Violent and ill-judg'd Brigues and Feuds. 1867J. Thomson L'Anc. Régime 13 He in recompense got Fierce struggle with brigue and plot.
▪ II. † brigue, v. Obs.|brig|
[f. prec., or a. F. brigue-r to contend, intrigue for = It. brigare to brawl, brabble, strive for. But sense 1 appears to be related to brike: see Briga, brica in Du Cange; It. imbrigare ‘to molest, embroil’; also, to entangle, Florio.]
†1. trans. To ensnare, trap, beguile. Obs.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 416 Þo fende hafs caste þis snare for to bryge men. 1387Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. ii. 367 Men were so i-briged [Caxton begyled] þat þey couþe nouȝt come out.
2. intr. To intrigue; to solicit by underhand methods; to canvass. (Chiefly Sc. in 16–18th c.)
1588A. King Canisius' Catech. 109 Then efteruart nother brigued, or desyred, nother violentlie inuaded y⊇ Bishoprick. 1706Ld. Beilhaven Sp. in Sc. Parlt. 11, I don't think any one Post of the kingdom worth the briguing after. 1726Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 270 They are already beginning to brigue and cabal. a1808Bp. Hurd (L.), I am too proud to brigue for admission.
†b. trans. To obtain by intrigue. Obs.
1758Sir J. Dalrymple Ess. Hist. Feudal Prop. 170 Kenneth III. brigued a contrary law from his barons.
Hence briguing vbl. n.
1704Swift T. Tub i, By briguing and caballing. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. ii. v. v. 64 Briguing, intriguing, favouritism..goes on there. |