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▪ I. creance, n.|ˈkriːəns|
Forms: 4–5 creaunce, (5 -awnce, -auns), 5– creance; also (in sense 4 only) 6 cryaunce, 6–7 -ance, 7 creyance, criance, cryants, cranes.
[ME. a. OF. créance (11th c.), corresp. to L. type crēdentia, f. creant pr. pple. of creire:— L. crēdĕre to believe. Cf. credence.]
†1. The mental action or condition of believing; belief, faith, trust, confidence, credence. Obs.
c1380Sir Ferumb. 1851 Þou scholdest leue þy false creaunce, and belyue on heuene kynge. 1393Gower Conf. II. 366 Er Rome came to the creaunce Of Cristes feith. c1450Myrc 1788 And bydde hem say wyth fulle creawnce. 1490Caxton How to die 3 To abyde and deye in the same creance and byleue.
†b. The matter of belief, the thing believed; (one's) belief or faith; a creed. Obs.
1393Gower Conf. I. 185 This maiden taught the creaunce Unto this wife. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 101 This is oure beleeve and creaunce. c1470Harding Chron. lxviii. xi, Foure. C. lordes, of Christes holy creaunce. 1669Gale Jansenisme 163 Not a creance or belief.
†2. Credit, reputation. Obs. rare.
c1330Owain 8 Ȝif he ben of gode creaunce. c1380Sir Ferumb. 358 If þou yknewe me ariȝt, my doynge and my creaunce, Þou noldest profry me no fiȝt for al þat gold of fraunce.
†3. Comm. Credit, trust. to creance: on credit.
1399Langl. Rich. Redeles iv. 17 Ne had creaunce Icome at þe last ende..Þey had be drawe to þe deuyll for dette þat þey owed. c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. v. (1885) 118 He shall..by [buy] all þat is necessarie..by creaunce and borowynge. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) vii. xxv. 314/1 Chapmen that selle to creaunce to let the byer from other chapmen.
4. Falconry. A long fine line or cord attached to a hawk's leash, by which she is restrained from flying away when being trained; also used similarly to confine the game at which the hawk is flown.[So F. créance, a string to retain a bird de peu de créance, i.e. whose indications cannot yet be well trusted.] 14..Sloane MS. 2721 Plut. xcv. C, How to use her when she will come redeley in the creance. 1486Bk. St. Albans B iij b, Take the partrich owte of yowre bagge and ty it by the legge with a creaunce. Ibid. B vj a, Ye shall call the long lyne that ye do call youre hawke to Reclaym with: yowre Creaunce, what so euer it be. 1615Latham Falconry (1633) 16 Draw her gently to you with your lure or cryance. 1891Field 7 Mar. 337/1 Her wing became entangled in the creance, and she came to the earth with a thud.
fig.1635Chapman & Shirley Chabot i. ii, No power flies Out of his favour but his policy ties A criance to it, to contain it still.
†b. Sometimes spelt cranes, as if plural.
1598Florio, Filagna, the cranes to lure a hauke with. 1603― Montaigne i. xlii. (1632) 139 We commend..a hawke for her wing, not for her cranes or bells. 1616Beaum. & Fl. Scornf. Lady v. iv, Take off her Cranes. 1685Cotton tr. Montaigne III. 452 As a hawk takes his flight but still under the restraint of his cranes.
▪ II. † creance, v. Obs.
[a. OF. creancer to promise, engage, etc., f. creance: see above.]
1. intr. To pledge oneself to pay; to take credit.
c1386Chaucer Shipman's T. 289 We may creaunce whils we have a name, But goldles for to be it is no game. Ibid. 303 Now gooth this Marchant..and byeth and creaunceth.
2. To pledge oneself, vow, plight one's troth.
c1477Caxton Jason 97 b, Jason and Medea swore and creanced that they shold take eche other by mariage. |