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Cheng(e, Cheing(e, v. Also: chengge, cheynge, cheange; schenge. [Variant of Change v.: cf. Cheng(e n. The alteration in the vowel is difficult to account for.] tr. and intr. To change, alter; to exchange. a1400 Legends of the Saints xvi. 878.
For that hir name is chengit nov In ‘synful wemane’ c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxix. 6 (B).
All weilfair, welth and wantones, Ar chengit in-to wretchitnesc1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxix. 10 (B). 1509 Rec. Earld. Orkney 82.
The ix penneland of Saba is fre gyffin and cheyngytt ... to the said Jhone Irwyngis fader c1520-c1535 Nisbet III. 327.
Rychtwisnes … alteris anne man, ande chenggis him in to anne new spirituall nature 1527 Stirlings of Keir 330.
To remuifs, input, out put, eik, and schenge als oft as he … thinkis expedient c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1053.
All plesour … Sall cheangit be in lestyng sorrow c1552 Ib. 4702.
Ay quhen he lyst, to chenge his wyfe 1558 Misc. Wodrow Soc. 155.
Divers lawis … quhilkis efterwart wer alterit, cheangit, and ceissit a1570-86 Maitland Maitland Folio MS clxxiii. 17.
Thoucht courttis ay hes bein chengeand as dois the mone a1578 Pitsc. I. 304.
Hou the auld officaris war cheingit a1578 Ib. 372/2.
Scho … wald cheing him for na vther 1639 Ellon Presb. 154.
The present passage therof to be cheangit
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