| 释义 |
† ˈsenyie Sc. Obs.
Forms: 5 senȝhe, 6 senȝe, sanȝe, seinȝie, seinze, seinye, 6–7 senȝie, senzie, 8 senyie, (9 senzie).
[App. an irregular alteration of sene n.3, possibly due to association with senyie sign: see senye.]
A deliberative meeting of clergy; a synod.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. vi. i. 53 Þis pape of Rome..Gert a senȝhe solempne be seyn. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xiv. 79 Off Sathanis senȝie syne sic ane vnsall menȝie. 1524Aberdeen Reg. (1844) I. 107 Thai war informit that my lord of Aberdeen was nocht to cum afor the sanze. 1535Lyndesay Satyre 1967 Sir, I socht law thair..Bot I culd get nane at Sessioun nor Seinȝe. a1572Knox Hist. Reform. Wks. (1846) I. 172 After the Pasche he came to Edinburgh, to hold the seinze, (as the Papistes terme thare unhappy assemblie of Baallis schaven sorte).
attrib. and Comb.
1683G. Martine Reliq. Divi Andreae (1797) 40 And after the reformation, I find they met in the *senzie chamber.
1552Aberdeen Reg. (1844) I. 280 That..all sic sumpteous banketing be laid doun aluterlie except thre sobir and honest, viz., upoun the *senze day [etc.]. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 226 All maner of man havand entres to compeir vpone the seinzie day.
1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 97 And terrour garr'd them loup pell-mell Frae *senzie-house, kirk, court and cell.
1596J. Melvill Diary (Wodrow Soc.) 330 In the *Seinzie ouk efter Pace. |