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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1488-1535
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Rememb(e)ring, -yng, vbl. n. Also: remmemb-, ramember-. [Remember v. Cf. late ME remembring (c1449).] a. In (in to) remembryng (of), in memory (of); ? as a reminder of. b. The action of remembering; (one's) memory. c. Recording. d. But ramemberyng, unremembered. e. A reminder.a. a1400 Legends of the Saints xl 532.
In the erde [he] cane it thrink, Of that merwale in remembryng c1500 Fyve Bestes 318.
In to remembering of his hie estaitb. a1500 Lancelot of the Laik 148.
That may hir one to thi remembryng brynge 1531 Bell. Boece I vi.
And first occurrit to my remembring [Bann. MS remmembring] How that I wes in service with the kingc. 1488–9 Acts Lords of Council I 109/2.
That this act be gevin for remembring herof to the … chancellared. 1513 Doug. xi xvi 29.
Nor this thy slauchter but ramemberyng Amang all pepill sall not be, nor menynge. 1535 Stewart 61230.
Tha four partis [of his body] tha send … Aboue the portis for to be set … that euerie man micht se, Till all other remembring of sic thing
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