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songe1 (s.xii1/3)

The form suinge is a cross reference to the following entry:

songe1 (s.xii1/3)

soinge;  sounge;  soynge;  suinge,  sunge,  suonge  
  FEW:  somnium 12,90b Gdf:  songe 7,474b GdfC:  songe 10,688a TL: songe 9,841 DEAF:  songe  DMF:  songe  TLF:  songe  OED: MED: DMLBS:  somnium 3130a

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1dream, vision
( c.1141; MS: s.xiii4/4 ) El lur dist prophecie Del fiz seinte Marie, Par un soinge briefment  Sibile 83
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1335 ) Del sounge fut moult effraé E tost sus sailli com home desvee  Amis ANTS 471
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 ) Ore lui (=to Joseph) reconte son songe li pestur  Anc Test (B) 1076
( s.xiii2/3; MS: s.xiii2 ) Al vinterzime secund jur Nasqui Joseph [...]. Li sunge serra averrez En idie que vus sungerez  Calendar 219.290
( s.xiv1; MS: c.1361 ) lé plus anciens de vous soungerount sounges  Actes (A) 362c
( 1415-17; MS: s.xv1 ) vostre lit serra fait bien tost et bealment pur vous coucher et dormer en ycelle saunz soungez et [to]rment  Liber Donati 22
2illusion, artifice
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1330 ) richesce n’est fors sunge, Chose pleyne de mensuynge  Vernac Lit 354.33
3fantasy, imaginary story
( MS: s.xii4/4 ) De fol home fol sunge  Prov vil 12.320
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 ) La matire resemble suonge, Kar [i]ceo ne put unkes estre  S Edm Life ANTS 30
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiiex ) Ke luy chaunte songes a hour de complye Et fables et chaunceouns, tant qe eal [sic] est endormye  Dest Rome1 359
gref, horible, mal songe
nightmare, terrible vision
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex ) (diamond) Force li dune e poeir E de gres sunges le defent E de fantosmes ensement  Lapid 30.77
( s.xii2/4; MS: c.1200 ) Onicle portee al col pendue [...] fait grefs sunges sunger et fet tençuns et fet enfanz bavus  Lapid 109.xlvi
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm ) La nature de l'oingnon est tele qe engendre [...] horibul songe en dormant  BOZ Cont 109
( MS: s.xiv1 ) onicle [...] [fait] soungier males sounges et fuir et accoille[r] deables  Quad Herm 184

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See also:

songeance  songement  songer  songeresse  songerie  songour 
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