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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1399-1592, 1677

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Changeing, Chaingeing, vbl. n. Also: chawngyng, chaungene, changinge, -ynge, chainging, -ein; chyngeing, chynging;schanging, schangen. [ME. changyng, chaungyng, etc. (14th c.), chaungung (a 1225), f. Change v. Cf. Chengeing.]

1. The act of altering or transforming; a change, alteration, or substitution.a1400 Legends of the Saints i. 346.
He mad in his face oft changinge
c1420 Wynt. i. 44.
For syndrynes of thare chawngyng
c1420 Ib. 1469.
In this changynge God made na wroucht na wncouth thynge
1456 Hay II. 112/32.
Because that all thing mon be as God has ordanyt, but variacioun of mutacioun or changeing
a1500 Henr. III. 129/41.
This changeing [M. chyngeing] and grit variance off erdly staitis vp and doun
a1500 Doug. King Hart 432.
At the last befell … Ane changeing new
1545 Aberd. B. Rec. I 222.
The counsale … considering the grit danger the tovnn now … standis of this pest … for euasioun of the same and schanging thairof … ordinis [etc.]
1548–9 Corr. M. Lorraine 294.
After the sch[a]ngen of the wach
1562-3 Winȝet II. 46/13.
God maid man, nocht be changeing of natuir [etc.]
1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 45.
Be changeing of cullouris and turning out the other syde of his cloik
1583 Sempill Sat. P. xlv. 316.
Exceading Circes in conceattis For chaungene of Wlisses meatis
1580-92 James VI Lusus R. 46.
Throuch chainging of thaire magistrat
1677 Glasgow B. Rec. III. 231.
For chynging the note of the chyme of bellis

2. Exchanging or exchange (of lands).1480 Acts Lords of Council 52/1.
The falsing of a letter of changeing of landis
1532 Glasgow Protocols Abstracts IV. 50.
Quhilk tenement is gewen … in chaingeing for thar place that thai haeff in the ciete of Glasgw
1553 Rec. Earld. Orkney 253.
Be way of permutatioun, chaingein, and cossing for certain landis

3. Shifting from one place to another.1556 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 365.
For bringing of … ledders, and changein of thame to the glassinwrycht sindry tymes

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