Terms vs Withsay - What's the difference?
terms | withsay |
To speak against someone or something.
# (label) To renounce, to give up.
#* Rituale Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis (1840), 34:
#* (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Seconde Nonnes Tale) in the (tales of Caunterbury) , 447:
# To contradict or deny.
#* (Ancrene Riwle) (Cleopatra C vi), 68:
#* in W. P. Baildon, Select cases in Chancery, A.D. 1364 to 1471 (1896), 136:
#* 1530 , (John Palsgrave), Lesclarcissement , 783/2:
# To gainsay, to oppose in speech (and by extension writing).
#* (w), 139:
#* 1922 , (James Joyce), :
# To forbid, to refuse to allow, give, or permit.
#* Merlin (1899), XIV 204:
#* St. German's Dyaloge Doctoure & Student , VI f xiii:
# To decline, to refuse to do or accept.
#* (Ancrene Riwle) (Cleopatra C vi), 175:
#* 1402 , (Thomas Hoccleve), Letters of Cupid , 108:
#* , Bk.XIII, Ch.iij:
#* ordinance in Collection of Ordinances of the Royal Household - 1327–1694 (1790), 372:
#* 2000 , , Morte D'Urban :
As a noun terms
is .As a verb withsay is
to speak against someone or something.withsay
English
Verb
- Terrena desideria respuentes, eardlico lvsto wiðsæcgende .
- Euery]] cristen wight shal han penaunce
But if that he his [[Christendom, cristendom withseye .
- ?ef an mon...deð swa muche mis. þet hit beo se open sunne. þet he hit ne ma?e nanesweis allunge wið seggen .
- He withseieth not the matier]] conteigned in the [[said, seid bille of complainte.
- Sythe]] I have sayd it, I [[will, wyll never withsay it.
- Bi þo da?es luuede herod]]es...his wif, and binam hire him, and Seint [[John the Baptist, Iohan hit wið seide .
- Let the lewd with faith and fervour worship. With will will we withstand, withsay .
- I will in no wise with-sey that ye requere.
- I wyll]] not withsaye thy [[desire, desyre.
- Þeo...wið seggeð þe grant þer of wið an wille heorte.
- She...So lyberal]] ys, she wol no [[wight, wyght with-sey .
- ‘Sir,’ he seyde]], ‘I myght nat withsey myne unclis [[will, wyll.’
- This is in noe wise to bee withsaid , for it is the King's honour.
- He was mild to good men of God and stark beyond all bounds to those who withsaid his will.