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Quotation dates: 1375-1643, 1694
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Son(e)-rising, n. Also: sonne-, sun-, sunn(e)-, soune-, soone-, sinne-, -riseing, -rys(e)ing, -rysyng, -ryssing, -risying, -raysing. [ME and e.m.E. sonne risyng (14th c.), son-rysynge (c1420), sun-rising (Shakespeare); Son(e n.1 and Risin(g vbl. n.] The rising of the sun, sunrise. Also, at, be, before (etc.) (the) sone-rising.For further examples see Risin(g vbl. n. 4 (1).(1) c1515 Asloan MS I 158/18.
Ynd has in the est the son rysing(2) ?1438 Alex. i 2579.
At the sone rysing c1420 Wynt. vi 1462 (W).
Sa waitit he the formest day At the sone rysing of Maii(3) 1553 Corr. M. Lorraine 368.
The … lardis … browcht ane canone of Sanctandrois … til Celso be the sone raysing in the mornying 1565 Reg. Privy C. I 361.
That thai … meit thair Majesteis to morne, the thrid day of September, at Kilsyth, be sone rysing(4) 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 6017.
Airlie at morne befoir the sone rysing 1565 Reg. Privy C. I 344.
Befoir the sone rysing in the morning 1628 Dundonald Par. Rec. 248.
Andrew Thomsoune … to be summond … for … breks of the Sabbath in comeing to Barrassy on the Sonday morning before the soune ryseing and craueing his debts 1633 Orkney Witch Trial in Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. V 547.
For comming so earlie ilk mornning to hir guidmotheris house befoir the sone ryseing(5) 1375 Barb. xiv 205.
Fra soyn eftir the sone-rysing, Quhill eftir mydmorne 1561 Q. Kennedy Compendious Ressonyng (ed.) 176/8.
The thrid mes was statute to be said on fair day lycht eftir the sone rysing(6) ?1438 Alex. ii 2828.
To-morne airly in the morning, Ane lytle forrow the sone rysing(7) 1630 Gordon Geneal. Hist. 242.
Untill sunnrysing the nixt day ?1643 Misc. Spald. C. II xlii.
Ane gryte army … apperit to him both of hors and foot, about aucht houris in the morning, being misty, and visiblie continewit till sone rysing 1694 Banff Ann. II 63.
That none should go forth to gather war till sun-rising on Munday's morning
b. With a parallel phrase referring to the setting of the sun. Cf. Risin(g vbl. n. 4 (2).Freq. in legal contexts.(1) 1640 Dundonald Par. Rec. 464.
Let the childrein … meit in the morning at the sunne ryssing and be dismissed at the sunne setting at nicht(2) 1428 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 461.
Quhil he … on a day betuen the sonn rysyng and to gangyng have fully payit the said fourty poundis … in the parys kirk 1462 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 368.
To cum … apon a day betuix the sone rising & the ganging to of that ilke 1510 Rep. Boyle Mun. 9.
Betuix the sonne risying and passing of the samyne 1521 Boyd Fam. P. No. 3 (3 Nov.).
Numerat … apone a day betuen the sone rising and discending of the samyne(3) 1625 Misc. Maitl. C. II 198.
It sall not be leisum to any man at any tyme of day but speciallie efter sun-setting and before sunriseing to goe [etc.](4) 1530 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 106.
Thir folkis to stand every mercat day fra the sone ryssing quhill it pas to, that thai chak all man be thair greit aythttis quhidder thai vair in to infekit partis or nocht 1598 Acts IV 174/2.
The samyn brod [to be] hung vp daylie fra the sone rysing to the dounseting at thair mercat croce(b) 1625 Glasgow B. Rec. II 564.
That Tyisday … salbe imployit in grinding of malt fra the soonerysing till the doungoing therof(c) 1600 Hamilton Facile Tr. 312.
From the sinne rysing to the going to thairof
c. transf. The quarter in which the sun rises; the east. 1513 Doug. vii x 14.
Or fortil ettill in to Inde … Towart the dawyng and son rysyng to seik [L. tendere ad Indos Auroramque sequi]
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