† boteningn.
Obsolete.
Healing, cure. Also: help, aid; deliverance.In quot. c1350: something which heals.
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the world > health and disease > healing > [noun]
healingc1000
healthc1000
healc1175
boteningc1300
warishingc1386
cure1393
curationa1398
recovera1398
resuming?a1425
sanationc1440
mendingc1480
guerison1484
recurea1500
recovery1523
resanation1598
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [noun]
fultumeOE
help971
succour?c1225
abetc1330
succouringc1330
speedc1340
subsidya1387
rescousc1390
chevisancea1400
juvamentc1400
supply1420
aid1430
favour1434
supplying1436
suffrage1445
availa1450
boteningc1450
succurrancec1450
adjuvancea1460
assistance1495
meeda1500
subventiona1500
suppliancea1500
adjutory?a1513
sistancea1513
adminiculation1531
abetment1533
assisting1553
adjument1576
society1586
aidance1593
opitulation1598
secourse1598
second1605
suppeditation1605
assistency1642
auxiliation1657
adjutancy1665
adjuvancy1677
abettal1834
sustenance1839
constructiveness1882
c1300 St. Nicholas (Laud) l. 321 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 249 (MED) Gret botningue þar is ȝuyt of men þat comieth þare-to.
c1330 (a1250) Harrowing of Hell (Auch.) (1907) l. 176 We hope wele of þi coming of our sinnes haue botening [a1350 Harl. froryng].
c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 92 By-lef þou..inne none ymage self, Þaȝ þat be great botninge.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 11028 A wode man touched on hys bere..And a-none he hadde botenyng.
a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) l. 388 (MED) Atte þe belfray to be, botnyng to fynde.
c1450 (a1400) Chevalere Assigne l. 370 in W. H. French & C. B. Hale Middle Eng. Metrical Romances (1930) 873 And þus þe botenynge of God browȝte hem to honde.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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