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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mainȝie, v. Also: maing(ne, manȝe, manye, menȝ(i)e, menye, mengȝe, meng, meingȝe. [ME. (midl.) maynhe (c 1330), mayne (c 1400), OF. mahaignier, mehaignier, mayner etc. Cf. Maim v.]

1. tr. To maim, mutilate. In passive, to be crippled or disabled by a wound or injury.(a) c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 2276.
Ane cuntre … full of rochis & montangneze Quhilk was sa strait that hors and man it maingneze 1531 Bell. Boece I. 139.
Quhen the houndis war manyeit be adventure of chais 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v. Machamium.
He quha is mainȝied hes ane just cause to excuse himselfe fra singular battell(b) 1500 Acta Conc. II. 383; 1591 Reg. Privy C. IV. 634.
The sadis oxin [etc.] … takin and hocht and menȝeit be the sadis persons 1513 Doug. x. xiii. 88.
With this Mezentyus menȝeit drew abak 1531 Bell. Boece II. 484.
He was menyeit be ane straik of ane horse 1565–6 Crim. Trials I. 471.
[He] fell our the baksyde of the tournepyke thairof vpoune his bak; quhairthrow he wes so menȝeit, that he was vnhabel for weirfare ?1438 Alex. ii. 9829. c1590 Fowler I. 62/125.
[We were] hurlet, meinȝeit, riwin 1616 Crim. Trials III. 383.
[They] slew, lamet and menȝet to the number of threscoir of the said schcipabsol. c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 2131.
Woundand, menȝeand & slaand a1500 Colk. Sow i. 192.

b. transf. or fig. 1375 Barb. xx. 396 (C).
The … kyng … Wes enterit in the land of Spanȝe, All haill the cuntre for till manȝe [H. to demaine] a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 171 (Asl.).
Mercy is menȝeit [Arundel mengit, Harl. mengȝeit] be diuers seire resonnis c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxviii. 3.
So sair the magryme dois me menȝie … That scant I luik may on the licht

2. Of butchers: ? To hack roughly, mangle (butcherflesh). 1529 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 102.
That na flech be maingit nor flauchit out vnhonestly