a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. vi. 16 Þe dore forsoþ of þe ark þou schalt sette a syde beneþen; soupyng placez [L. cenacula] & þre chaumbred þou schalt make in it.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 484 Suppynge, cenacio, cenatus.

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 4439 Ȝoure sowping in vnseson, ȝoure surfete of drinkis.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Syndipnium, a soupynge togyther.

1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. 599 Though kneeling be not the onely, yet it is the fittest gesture for praying: neyther can you more obiect the sitting of Christe against it, than you maye his supping at nyghte, agaynst our receyuing in the morning.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 179 This order of supping being obserued, there will remaine a competent time..before they goe to bed,..for the meats..to concoct.

a1721 M. Prior Dialogue Locke & Montaigne in Wks. (1971) I. 636 I may find what will dress a Supper, but nothing else to the present purpose of my own Supping.

1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales II. 187 Nor would he excuse the party from supping al fresco in his gardens.

1835 W. G. Simms Partisan I. v. 64 Meantime the supping proceeded, and towards its conclusion, Humphries the brother..left the apartment.

1891 Daily News 6 Mar. 5/3 The public ‘suppings’ still prevail at Christ's Hospital.

1911 H. S. Harrison Queed xvii. 217 Miss Weyland's ostensible suppings with her aunt were neither better nor worse than so many bold calls upon Mr. Queed.

1922 Our World June 5/2 The supping, however, is not so fine as in the glad gastronomic days of old. Only the rich now eat roast pork.

1978 Cincinnati Mag. Dec. 110/1 In the course of two suppings we found the Spring Rolls..crispy-skinned but a tad cabbage-mushy on the inside for our taste.

2003 J. Shane Jesus Christ & Last Crusade 259 Sup with him, and he with me: there shall be mutual fellowship, symbolized by the supping of friends together.

1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xviii. xix. 699 The first day they call Dorpeia, the supping day, for that daie their feast was at supper.

1897 E. Spencer Cakes & Ale xvi. 187 It should be mentioned that the actors, journalists, etc., who, in the 'seventies, possessed smaller means, or more modest ambitions, were in the habit of supping—on supping days—at a cheaper haunt in the Strand.

1912 R. Strong Sensations of Paris xiv. 219 In spite of its prim and demure outlook, what fantastic scenes has it not witnessed in those old supping days to which Balzac and the memorialists of two generations ago so constantly refer?

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Suppyng parlour or place, cœnatio.

1609 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light (ed. 2) sig. H2^v In these Barnes, are both their Cooke-roomes, their Supping Parlors and their Bed-chambers.

1660 E. Warcupp tr. F. Schottus Italy ii. 153 Of the Triclinia, or Supping Parlours, or their Banquets and manner of sitting at Table.

1770 Descr. Eng. & Wales X. 111 And in the supping parlour are two landscapes, by Zuccharelli.

1801 A. Ranken Hist. France I. i. v. 445 A supping parlour, commanding the most delightful prospect both of the sea and of a beautiful and populous country.

1904 East Anglian 10 363 Sir Charles Turner's portrait, by Richardson, hung in the supping parlour at Houghton.

2010 J. Simpson Under Hammer iv. 145 The catalogue starts in the small breakfast room, and moves progressively through the supping parlor, the hunting hall, the coffee room, the common parlor, and so on.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark xiv. 15 And he schal shewe to ȝou a greet souping place strewid.

a1400 (?a1325) Medit. on Supper of our Lord (Harl.) (1875) l. 160 To þe sopyng place aȝen þan þey come.

?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 117^v A Sowpynge place, cenaculum..cenatorius.

1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1307/1 He shal shewe you a great supping place paued.

a1631 J. Donne in Lett. to Severall Persons of Honour (1651) 285 Reserve your self upon Saterday: so that I may..understand at my house where I may send you word of our supping place that night.

1733 Pract. Husbandman & Planter I. 32 The Cubiculum Dormitorium, as described by Pliny, was adjoining to the Diæta, or Parlour or Supping-Place.

1839 W. M. Thackeray Catherine x. 544 A very handsome, plump little person..was sauntering up and down the walk running opposite his supping-place.

1908 Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 347/2 You thought of a visit to a supping-place, the Cider Cellars in Maiden Lane.

2001 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 14 Dec. 6 The boats on the Willamette assemble at the marina at River Place. That makes all of the sipping and supping places there a sure bet.

1612 J. Gordon Εἰρηνοκοινωνία sig. D4 The said Tertullian, in describing the forme of the publicke feasts of Christians after the which they did celebrate their holy Communion, calleth the place in which they did celebrate the same, Triclinium, which signifieth a Parlour, or Supping roome.

a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 148 A private Supping-roome.

1775 E. Barry Observ. Wines Ancients xii. 285 Each of them, on his arrival, was conveyed to the bath, before he entered the supping room.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. iii. xi. 282 And the Prince dismissed us with a grim bow, locking one door as he spoke, that into the supping-room, and the other through which we passed, after us.

1910 Chautauquan 59 372 Queen Mary's apartments consist of the audience-chamber, where probably her conversations with John Knox took place, her bed chamber from which opened her dressing room on the one side and the small supping room on the other.

2003 S. Millhauser King in Tree (2004) 131 By the light of her candle he saw with surprise that he was in the supping room.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John xxi. 5 Therfore Jhesu seith to hem, Children, wher ȝe han ony soupynge thing [L. pulmentarium]?

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 225 Make herof a souping medicyn [L. medicina sorbilis], þat it be as þicke as hony.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 466 Sowpynge, sorbicio.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 466 Suppynge al vp, or al owte, absorbicio.

a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 81 At morwyn fastyng, to take a soupyng of venegre.

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Sorvo Supping vp, sorbitio.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Sorbitione, a sooping or sipping vp.

1611 Bible (King James) Hab. i. 9 Their faces shall sup vp [margin. Heb. the supping vp of their faces] as the East winde. View more context for this quotation]

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Sorbition, a supping, as of broth or pottage.

1684 T. Tryon Country-man's Compan. iii. 92 O thou idle and sottish Glutton! what real Pleasure is there in the continual supping of Wine and Drunkenness?

1706 tr. L. Lémery Treat. Foods (new ed.) iii. viii. 316 The patient was in a miserable condition but, taking to the supping of Chocolate, he recovered in a short time.

1829 New Sc. Haggis (ed. 2) 203 Will Speirs..went in and fell to the supping of the cream from the milk dishes.

1858 Littell's Living Age 4 Sept. 792/2 Fancy a used-up roué finding even temporary peace of mind from contemplating a mock hermit perplexed with the growth of his ‘mistaches’, and only submitting to these impediments to the supping of his kale, for the consideration of three shillings a week!

1884 W. W. Loring Confederate Soldier in Egypt i. ix. 108 Then follow the Ghawazzee (dancing girls), music, smoking, and supping of coffee.

1918 A. P. McKishnie Willow, Wisp xi. 150 For an interval there was no sound in the room save that made by the supping of the hungry man and the quick breathing of the dogs.

1997 A. Gurney Below Convergence (2007) vii. 131 Some eight months after Cook's supping of dog broth, the Resolution sailed into the familiar anchorage in Queen Charlotte Sound.

2000 Sunday Mail (Nexis) 16 Apr. 14 It is a picture known and loved throughout the nation…[ellipsis in text] the supping of ales at the Rovers Return,..the chatter of customers at the Corner Shop.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) 2 Kings xiii. 6 Y biseche, come Thamar, my sistir, that sche make twei soupyngis [E.V. two maner of potagis; L. sorbitiunculas] bifor my iȝen.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 103 Lye he fast in a pilow; vse he soupyng [?c1425 Paris suppynge metes; L. sorbilibus] þat it bihoue hym not to chewe.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 501 They bathed hym and wayshed hym and gaff hym hote suppyngis, tylle they had brought hym well to hys remembraunce.

1510 J. Stanbridge Vocabula (new ed.) sig. B.iii Sorbitiuncula, a suppynge.

1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xxxvii. sig. N.i^v Let them haue .iii. tymes in a daye warme suppynges.

1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 4 Geue him a good broth of a pollet or chycken, or els a supping of yong beafe or veele.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxii. xxiv. 137 Wax taken inwardly in a supping or broth.

1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 142 You must give the patient some warme suppings all the time this medicine is working.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) Man. iv. xii. 348 Such as have lost their teeth are fain to content themselves with suppings.

1715 H. Carey Contrivances 13 I cou'd see nothing but a many People supping hot Suppings, and reading your Gazate Papers.

1754–64 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery III. 77 I directed some Thebaick drops..with warm suppings.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Soupings, any sort of spoon-meat.

1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Supping, spoon-meat of any kind, but more especially milk and water boiled and thickened with oatmeal... Calves' supping is food that they can suck up made with linseed..in milk and water.

1880 in J. Britten Old Country & Farming Words 111 Supping, or more generally suppings, is buttermilk or whey, but not milk (unless well skimmed).

1957 L. E. Pearson Elizabethans at Home ii. 110 It was better for a woman to taste a ‘supping’ that she or the maids were brewing if her husband gave her the cup, than [etc.].

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 466 Sowpynge mete, or drynke.

c1450 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Bodl. 277) (1850) 2 Kings xiii. 8 Sche took mele, and medlide to gidre, and sche made it moist bifor hise iȝen, and sche sethide soupinge metis [a1425 Royal soupyngis; E.V. Corpus Oxf. supettis].

c1475 tr. Henri de Mondeville Surgery (Wellcome) f. 166^v The diete of siche woundis, and namely of þe veyne organe, bi colice & souping mete þat chewe not be to wide.

1614 W. B. tr. Philosophers Banquet (ed. 2) i. vi. 26 Wee must abstaine from those Sorbilia, supping meates.

1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours iii. v. 147 Hippocrates..perswades to nourish the sick with supping meats, rather than with solid meats.

1694 R. Blome tr. A. Le Grand Entire Body Philos. vii. iv. 234/2 Neither can any other Reason be given, why Broath, Boil'd Milk, and other kinds of Supping Meats, presently after they are removed from the Fire, get a skin or film on the top of them.

1745 T. Warton Five Pastoral Eclogues 13 I too, when in my watled cotes are laid My supping flock, rejoice to meet my dear, My fair Lauretta, at the wonted oak.

1829 Diary Occurr. Journ. Belgium to Paris 15 The noise, the bustle, and the smoking of the dining and the supping guests were of a description, that under any other circumstances would have rendered the house ineligible for a lodging.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Let. 1 June (1945) II. 293 Not being a dancing or even a supping man now the loss of the good things doesn't very much affect me.

c1885 D. Masson in Blackwood's Mag. (1908) Apr. 552/1 An elderly gentleman..seemed to take a benevolent interest in all the supping groups.

1922 T. Beer Fair Rewards v. 131 The supping people rose in a vast puff of smoke from abandoned cigarettes.

1964 Dublin Hist. Rec. 19 62 The meetings were monthly, and each member paid sixpence per month, which sum..provided plenty of eatables and porter and punch for the supping aldermen.

2000 Lexington (Kentucky) Herald Leader (Nexis) 29 Nov. 7 Actors dressed in pioneer costume will also be on hand to entertain their supping guests.