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▪ I. lording, n.|ˈlɔːdɪŋ|
Forms: 1 hláfording (Sweet), 2–3 lover(e)ding, 3 Orm. laferrdinng, 3–4 laverding, (lhording), 3– lording.
[f. lord n. + -ing3.]
1. = lord n. 2. Frequent as a form of address, rarely sing. = Sir!, frequent in pl. = Sirs! Gentlemen! Also, my lording! Obs. exc. arch.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 179 Þe riche þe ben louerdinges struien þe wrecche men, þe ben underlinges. c1200Ormin 918 Nu, laferrdinngess, loke we Whatt tiss maȝȝ us bitacnenn. c1205Lay. 27394 Lauerdinges, quæð Luces þa, Mahun eou beo liðe. c1250Kent. Serm. in O.E. Misc. 27 Lordinges and leuedis þis is si glorius miracle. c1250Gen. & Ex. 833 Neȝ ilc burȝe hadde ise louereding. c1320Sir Tristr. 402 Of a prince proude in play Listneþ, lordings dere. 1340Ayenb. 67 Þis zenne is ine uele manneres ase ine sergons aye hire lhordinges. 1375Barbour Bruce i. 445 Lordingis, quha likis for till her, The Romanys now begynnys her. 1382Wyclif Deut. x. 17 The Lord oure God he is..Lord of lordyngis. a1400–50Alexander 2573 Þe leche lokid ouire þe lynes ‘my lording’ he said, ‘I am noȝt gilty of þis gile’. c1450Holland Howlat 628 Quhat fele armes..Of lordingis and sere landis..The said persewant bure. 1568T. Howell Newe Sonets (1879) 149 Lo Lordynges, here by take a vewe. 1591Troub. Raigne K. Iohn (1611) 29 Lordings forbeare, for time is comming fast, That deeds may trie what words can not determine. 1599Shakes., etc. Pass. Pilgr. xv, It was a Lordings daughter, the fairest one of three. 1622Fletcher Beggars Bush v. i, If't be worth His Lordships thanks anon, when 'tis done, Lording, Ile looke for't. 1865Kingsley Herew. II. xxi. 363 Have a care for yourselves, lordings! The Wake is loose.
2. As diminutive of lord: A little lord, a petty lord, usually in a contemptuous sense.
c1577Stanyhurst æneis, etc. Epit. Ld. Louth (Arb.) 150 The Lord Baron of Louth..was trayterously murthred by Mackmaughoun, an Irish Lording, about the year 1577. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 229 Such termes are vsed to be giuen..for a kind of contempt, as when we say Lording for Lord. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 62 Ile question you Of my Lords Tricks, and yours, when you were Boyes: You were pretty Lordings then? 1651N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. ii. vi. 59 Had future Ages pursued the flight as it was begun, these Lordings might have beaten the Air, without making any speedy way.
3. A sort of apple or pear. (Cf. lordling 2.)
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort., Aug. (1679) 22 Pears..Windsor..Sugar-Pear, Lording Pear, &c. Ibid., Sept. 24 Apples..Summer Pearmain, Lording-apple. 1676Worlidge Cyder (1691) 210 The Lording is a fair, green, and sharp apple.
▪ II. lording, vbl. n.|ˈlɔːdɪŋ|
[f. lord v. + -ing1.]
The action of lord v. in various senses.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Pet. 14 The office of a right bysshop is ferre of from lordinge. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xvii. (1611) 150 When they sit, they hold their heads steady and without motion: which stately action Spencer in his Shepheard's calender calleth the lording of Frogs. [See lord v. 1 b, 1579.] 1648Milton Tenure Kings (1650) 46 The censorious and supercilious lording over conscience. 1657W. Morice Coena quasi κοινὴ xxi. 193 To exonerate themselves they transferre this Lording..on the Bishop's. 1864Burton Scot Abr. I. iii. 112 Possibly the fifteen days' lording it at Sluys may have broken in..on his outfit. 1890T. Hardy in New Rev. Jan. 20 The present lording of nonage over maturity.
attrib.1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. ix. (1623) 607 As was the fashion of those Lording times. 1863W. Lancaster Præterita 54 Zeus..metes me out a little lording nook.
▪ III. lording, ppl. a.|ˈlɔːdɪŋ|
[f. lord v. + -ing2.]
That lords, in senses of the vb.
c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 54 A man may..by tokenynges perseyue whether wyt or no wyt be yn a kynge lordand. c1629Layton Syons Plea (ed. 2) 6 Where the Spirit recounteth by name all the sorts of Ministery,..Eph. iv. 11 there is not one word of such a Lording Ministry. 1641R. Brooke Eng. Episc. ii. vii. 112 The..Cruell Tyranny of some Lording Prelates. 1880G. Meredith Tragic Com. (1881) 39 She tried to be revolted by his lording tone. |