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▪ I. † yisse, v. Obs.
Forms: 1 ᵹitsian, ᵹietsian, ᵹidsian, 2–3 ȝitsen, 2–4 ȝissen, (2 ȝitcen, 3 ȝiscen, ȝyscen, ȝescen, ȝietcen, ȝetsen, 4 yisse; in vbl. n. 3 ȝittsunng, yssyng, 4 icinge).
[OE. ᵹítsian, ᵹídsian = OHG. *gîtisôn (MHG. gîzen, gîtsen, G. geizen), f. Teut. gīd-, whence also OHG. kît (MHG. gît, G. geiz) covetousness, OHG. kîtac (MHG. gîtec, G. geizig) covetous; ultimately related to Lith. geidžu to covet, Lettish gaida desire, OSl. židati to expect.]
trans. (in OE. const. gen. or dat.) and intr. To covet. Hence yisser, a covetous person; yissing vbl. n., coveting, covetousness.
Beowulf 1749 [He] ᵹytsað gromhydiᵹ. c700Epinal Gloss. 82 Appetitus, ᵹitsung [Corpus Gloss. ᵹidsung]. c888ælfred Boeth. xiii. §1 Sio ᵹitsung ᵹedeð heore ᵹitseras laðe. Ibid. xxvi. §2 ælc bit þæs reaflaces þe him on ᵹenumen bið, oððe eft oðres ᵹitsað. c897― Gregory's Past. C. xli. 298 (Cotton MS.) Hu ᵹewitende ða ðing sint þe hie ᵹidsiað [v.r. ᵹietsiað]. a1175Cott. Hom. 233 He wat wel þat maniȝe men bieð sa ful of ȝescung. c1200Moral Ode 271 (Trin. Coll. MS.) Þo þe waren ȝietceres of þis wereldes aihte. c1200Ormin 4560 Ȝæn ȝittsunng & grediȝleȝȝc. c1205Lay. 5332 Þe kinges beoð ȝunge Of æhte ȝissinge. a1225Ancr. R. 202 Al so ȝisceð a ȝissare [v.r. ȝiscere] þet moni þusunt muhten biflutten. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3515 Ne ȝisce ðu noȝt ðin nestes ðing, Hus, ne aȝte, ne wif, in ðin ȝiscing. c1275Passion our Lord 35 in O.E. Misc. 38 Mid yuernesse and prude and yssyng wes þat on. c1315Shoreham iv. 357 Þorȝ ȝeskynge efter gode. 1340Ayenb. 16 Icinge, in cle[r]gie auarice oþer couaytise. a1400in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 251 Ȝissinge and glosinge and felsship beon riue. Ibid. 269 Worldes yissyng Me haueth schent.
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