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† ˈwarison Obs.
Forms: 4–6 wary-, wari-, ware-, (4 warei-, vari-, 5 wery-, warry-); -soun(e, -son(e, 4 -sun, 5 -sowne, -sonne, summe; 9 warrison.
[a. OF. warison, northeastern form of g(u)arison: see garrison n.]
1. Wealth, possessions. to bring (a person) in or to (his) warison: to enrich.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 2463 Hengist þat hor maister was he [Vortigern] ȝef him lindeseye Londes vaire & Rentes & tounes grete & heye Ware þoru him & is men in vair warison he broȝte. Ibid. 8878 Mabile is doȝter was eir of al is londe Þe king vor ire eritage him gan vnderstonde To bringe roberd is sone abast in is warison þere Þoru spousinge of þis mayde. 13..Sir Beues (MS. A.) 2142 Wide whar ichaue iwent And me warisoun ispent. 1390Gower Conf. I. 64 Bot yet his herte..Among his bedes most devoute Goth in the worldes cause aboute, How that he myhte his warisoun Encresce. Ibid. I. 155 Mi fader hier hath bot a lite Of warison. c1400Ywaine & Gaw. 918 Bot i sal help the fra presowne, And bring the to thi warisowne. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 919 For thy my warysoun is full gude at hame quhair I dwel.
b. (to give, have) to warison: in full possession. Also, to give (a woman) in warison: to give in marriage; similarly to have warison, in warison, wed to warison.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1284 My moste fo & my feloun Schal haue my doughter to warisoun. 1338― Chron. (1725) 21 Elfride þorgh heritage toke him þe coroune, & gaf Alfride his broþer Surray to warisoune. Ibid. 69 Þe duke wrote to þe kyng..Bisout him..þat he wild hold his oth, & ȝeld him þe coroun of Inglond..Or Marie to warisoun wed hir, & joy it wele. c1400Ywaine & Gaw. 2399, I sal hir gif to warisowne Ane of the foulest quisteroun That ever yit ete any brede. c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 10046 The lordeship of a grete tovn He yafe him to his warison. c1450Godstow Reg. 111 And for this quyte-clayme the forsaid Symond yaf to her ij. shillings of siluer into warison. c1460Oseney Reg. 164 And for this ȝevyng and of this present charter confermyng and warantiȝyng aquite & defendyng, þe foresaide Nycoll ȝafe to me Cl li. of goode & lawfull moneye by-fore handes in weryson.
c. fig. Applied to an immaterial ‘treasure’; esp. a maiden's honour.
a1300Prov. Hendyng 21 Wyt & wysdom is god warysoun. a1300Marina 109 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 172 Þou ne dudest nout ase hende To bynymen þat may hire wareison. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 2190 Ȝyf þou rauysshe a mayden powre,..Þou hast stole here warysun.
2. A gift bestowed by a superior; a reward.
13..K. Alis. 2507 (Laud MS.), Þer nas knaue ne quystroun Þat ne had his warisoun. 1338R. Brunne Chron. (1725) 325 Þre hundreth marke he hette vnto his warisoun, Þat with him so mette, or bring his hede to toun. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xx. (Blasius) 270 His wark sal haf warysone & of his master benysone. c1440Promp. Parv. 516/2 Warysone, donativum, possessio. c1440Jacob's Well 254 We arn alle felawys in goddys host, þat yche day fyȝten as his knyȝtes, and alle we abyde on warysoun. c1460Battle of Otterbourne xliii. in Child Ballads III. 297/2 Mynstrells, playe vp for your waryson And well quyt it schall bee. 1470–85Malory Arthur ix. xxii. 372 And now haue I my waryson. a1510Douglas King Hart ii. 35 My warisoun,..Lord, pay to me, and gif me leif to ryde. 1572Satir. Poems Reform. xxxi. 66 My ladds of Leith, be wice—Ȝe ken ȝour warisoun.
b. In bad sense: ‘Reward’, due punishment.
a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 1537 He [sc. Narcissus] lost his witte..And diede withynne a lytel space, And thus his warisoun [F. guerredon] he took For the lady that he forsook. c1440York Myst. xxxvi. 89 For thy presumpcyoune Þou haste thy warisoune. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) III. 562 Robert the Grahame,..for his waresoun, Vpoun ane flaik wes traillit throw the toun. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 8 This cochreine with his companie Within schort tyme gat thair warison, On lather brig wer hanged schamefullie. [1881J. Sargisson Joe Scoap 31 (E.D.D.) Thoo's gittn thy warrison, me lad; lig thee theer till sec-like times as ah send for theh.]
¶3. tr. med.L. gersuma, ad. ME. gersum.
c1450Godstow Reg. 156 And for this yifte..the forsaid mynchons of Godestowe yaf to hym ix. marke of siluer into waryson. Ibid. 222 And for thys graunt..the foreseyd mynchons yaf to hym xj. marke, ij. shillings, viij. d, in wary⁓summe.
4. ? Preservation, defence.
c1450Burgh Secrees 2337 With greet rewardys doo them avance..Which aldayes besy and waking be In thy nedys; for in them stant the warysoun Of thy worshepe, thy lyf or thy destruccion.
¶5. Misused by Scott for: A note of assault.
The source of the mistake is prob. the line ‘Mynstrells, playe vp for your waryson’, in The Battle of Otterbourne, which Scott had doubtless read in Percy's Reliques.
1805Scott Last Minstr. iv. xxiv, Either receive within thy towers Two hundred of my master's powers, Or straight they sound their warison, And storm and spoil thy garrison. 1824Byron Juan xv. lix, As my friend Scott says, ‘I sound my warison.’ 1867Contemp. Rev. VI. 342 He thinks of sounding his warrison against what he strikingly calls the army of the Philistines. |