sheuen - Middle English Compendium\nForms sheuen v.(1) Also sheu(e, sheuin(e, sheuʒ(e, sheuh, sheuwe, shieuen, sheui, sewen, siwi, cheu(e, (SW & K) sseue(n, sseui, (K) sseaui, seaui, (N) sceu, (N & early) scau(e, (chiefly N, NM, & early) shau(e(n & shauwie, shoune, shou(e(n, ssou(e, shō, shu(e(n, suen & (early) sceawe(n, -an, -æ, -in, -ien, -ian, -iæn, -iʒe, -igen, sheawe(n, (Orm.) shæwenn, (SWM) shawi(n, sewi, (SW) showi, sheauwe & (errors) sche, schwau, scepie, swewe, (quot.: c1475 in sense 9.(b)) sew; sg.3 sheueth, etc. & sheueiþ, sheuth, sheuet, sheuight, ssewet, sewet, shouies, (K) sseaweþ & (early) scewet, scewed & (errors) shewe it, scewiþ; pl. sheue(n, etc. & sheuiʒt; impv. sheueth, etc. & sheuiaþ; ppl. sheuing(e, etc. & (error) scwende; p.sg.1 & 3 sheued(e, etc. & sheueed, sheueid, sheuet, sheut, sheud(e, (K) sseawede, (N) sceud, (N & early) shaud(e & (early) sceawode, sceawde, (SWM) sceoweden, seowede, sewede, scawede, (SW, SWM) scewed(e, (SW) shewude, sheauwede & (error) sæwæde; sg.2 sheuedist, etc. & (SW) ssowedest, (?error) shewethst; pl. sheuden, etc. & seude, shouueden, (early K) seawede & (error) sawedon; ppl. sheued(e, etc. & sheud(e, sheuet, seude, shouuet, (N) sceud, shaud, sheu, shaun, scaun, (NWM) shauen & (early) sewid, (Orm.) shæwedd, shawenn & (error) scehwed. Contractions: sheuwestou (sheuwest thou), sheuedestou (sheuedest thou).\nEtymology OE scēawian, scēawig(e)an, p. scēawode, pl. scēawodon, -edon.\nNote: Cp. ætsceawian v.\n(a) To see, look out; see (sth., that sth. is so), look at (sb. or sth.), view, examine; of God: see (sth.); also, view (sb.) with favor; ~ upon, look at (sb.); ben to ~, be visible; fair (lothli, etc.) to ~; (b) to perceive (sth., that sth. is so); discover (if sth. is so); take note (that sth. is so); (c) to predict, foretell; foresee (sth.), foretell; ~ aforn (beforen); (d) to go to see (sb.), visit.\na1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)8/35-6 : We sceawigeð þæs mannes nebb, & God sceawigeð his heorte.\na1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)94/4 : On þan halgen gewriten se mann hine sylfne mæig sceawigen swa swa on hwylcen sceawere, hwylc he byð.\nc1175(OE) Bod.Aelfric OT (Bod 343)19/70 : Binnan six dagum, ðe þe soðæ God þa gesceafte isceop..sceawode þe an ængel þe þær ænlicost wæs, hu fæger he sylf wæs & hu scinende on wuldre.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)118/22 : He [St. John] þa heofenlice eadiʒnesse iseah & sceawode.\nc1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)32/11 : Heo ða in to þam temple com & heo þæt treow sceawian ongon.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)12235 : All þatt tu sammness i þin hord..tu gowesst Þæronne..Forr þatt te lisste itt shæwenn.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)1011 : He lidðe ʒeond þis lond & scæwede [Otho: sewede] þea leoden.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)103/15 : Al swo doð ðies mihte upe ða dune of muchel embeðanke: Hie sceaweð and lokeð ferrene to.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)1853 : Þanne bigan he for to mowe With the barre, and let hem shewe Hw he cowþe sore smite.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)2136 : Þe knithes þouth of hem god gamen Hem forto shewe, and loken to.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2661 : Migte non man modi ben, Ðor-quiles he seweden him [Moses] up-on.\nc1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)1565 : His swerd, sche [Isolde] gan it schewe, And broken hye fond it þare.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)304a/a : Sighte scheweþ a dyuersite of coloures þat it fongeþ by kynde of medlynge and maystry of elementes.\nc1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)2036 : Þe gordel of þe grene silke..Vpon þat ryol red cloþe þat ryche watz to schewe.\na1425(a1400) Titus & V.(Pep 2014)1117 : Whan tyme comeþ, shewe [vrr. shewen; tellen, sewen] I can, To knowe him fro anoþer man.\na1425 PPl.C (Hnt HM 143)10.161 : The sonne sumtyme for cloudes May nat shyne..on schawes on erthe, So let lecherye..That god sheweth nat suche synnefole men, and soffreth hem mysfare.\nc1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)89 : Is es credens..with cruell wordez, Trow it for no trufles, his targe es to schewe.\nc1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)3279 : The laste was a lityll man..His leskes laye all lene and latheliche to schewe.\nc1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)1305 : The castel-yate..so fair yt was to shewe, For hit was al with gold behewe.\nc1450(a1400) Lavynham Treat.7 Dead.Sins (Hrl 211)7/8 : Mawmetrie of money is whan a man..hath a likynge to se his catel..to telle it & to schewe it.\nc1450(?a1400) Parl.3 Ages (Add 31042)275 : My likame was louely, es lothe nowe to schewe.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)601 : Þe fax on his faire hede was ferly to schawe.\na1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)57/37 : Sceawigeð eac æfter þysen, þæt nan styde nis ure lichamen.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)20/22 : Sceawæ bi þare synnan..hu heo maʒe sendon hire scinende leome from hire upplice ryne ofer alne middaneard.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)88/28 : Þinge þe heo [memory] ær cuðe..heo mæʒ on hire mode sceawiæn þonne heo hereð bi þam specæn.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)124/2 : Ic eow bidde..ʒe sceawiæn & asmeʒen hwær heoræ wælan beoð bicumene.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)45/11-12 : Hie stieð up to heuene mid here gastliche þohtes for to sceawin ðe michele merhðe of heuene riche, for to sceawin ðe windes and ðe euele stormes ðe cumeð of deules blastes.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)2784 : But or bad he þat þider were brouth Þe quen..forto shawe Yif þat he hire wolde knawe.\na1400(c1300) NHom.(1) Gosp.(Phys-E)p.99 : Bot haythen folc gan godhed schw In crist.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)135 : Þe childes [John's] michelnesse sheude [L adiecit..explicare] þe engel on fuwer þingen.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)654 : Ful conyng was sche & coynt & couþe fele þinges of charmes..to schewe harde castis.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Eccl.7.1 : Who to hym shal moun shewen what after hym be to come vnder the sunne?\n(?1387) Wimbledon Serm.(Corp-C 357)111/808 : We be not sufficiaunt to knowe þe tymes oþer..to schewe certeynly þe day, ʒer, oþer hour of þis dom.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.3034 : Þe goddis, hauyng prescience To schew a-forn, þoruʒ his sapience, What schal be-tide, [etc.].\nc1470 Bible F.(Cleve-W q091.92-C468)49/16 : There were many good men & prophetis that prechid and taught the peple..and shewid hem þe þingis that were to come.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.142 : Þe mone..shewyt in oo contree gret tokene of reyn.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)63/21 : This is ratified to vs in the Gospell, which shewith desolacion to diuerse realmes.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)85/10 : The toone lawe [Old Testament] promisith, shewith, and disposith; the othir contentith and restith.\na1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)118 : Thou art comen the ageynbyer of the worlde, lyke as thou schewdest [F nonças] before by thy lawes and by thy prophetes.\na1225(?OE) Vsp.A.Hom.(Vsp A.22)231 : Æer þanne we mid ure frienden toðe mete go, scepie [read: scewie] we þes uncoðe mæn ur ʒefo.\n(a) To be seen, be visible; be plain to see; -- also refl.; be noticeable, be conspicuous; give the appearance of (sth.); -- also impers.; also, fig. be perceptible (to the senses); ppl. sheuinge, ?perceptible; ?also, apparent; (b) of something not usually visible: to be open to the sight, lie exposed; protrude; ~ oute, stick out; ppl. sheuinge, visible; sheuinge oute, protruding; (c) to come into view, appear, emerge to sight; also fig.; (d) to present oneself, make an appearance, be present; emerge; ~ afore, come into the presence of (sb.); ~ doun, descend; ~ oute, emerge; ~ til (to), appear to (sb.); (e) to be clear to the mind, be obvious, be evident; also, be proved, be certain; be represented allegorically by (sb., a serpent); -- also impers.; ppl. sheuinge as adj.: clearly true, evident; (f) to be, be found, exist; occur, happen; -- also impers.; (g) ~ for, to represent (a shire) in Parliament.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)267/26 : Ich yzeʒ to þe blyssede heape of confessours, amang huam men, apostles, and techeres..sseaweþ.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.1921-3 : Bot as it scheweth in the glas Thing which therinne nevere was, So scheweth it in his visage That nevere was in his corage.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)3.809 : He was transformed, as it scheweth, And many a man yit him beschreweth, And clepen him into this day A Raven.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)3.857 : Hate is a wraththe noght schewende.\na1400(c1300) NHom.(1) Gosp.(Phys-E)p.23 : For quatkin wer sal fal in land Til pouer folk es it sarest schouand.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)1.487 : His sorwe Gan multiplie, that..It shewed in his hewe.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)2.m.7.4 : Whoso that..oonly seketh glorie of fame..lat hym looke upon the brode schewynge contrees of the hevene.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)5.pr.6.267 : Right so as alle thingis that apiereth or scheweth [L patet] to the wittes, yif thou referre it to resoun, it is universel.\n?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)39b/b : Þo sinewes ben harder & more schewinge to felinge.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)93a/b : Remewe þy sticches aforne þat þe þrede kitte þe fleische þat..þer schewe no crosse þwerte þe wounde.\n(1428) Doc.in Sur.Soc.852 : Yai fand certein smale peces multen tyn menged with other metall, als wele is to shewe in ye chambre.\na1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)2.26.38 : The embelif orisonte..overkervith the equinoxiall in embilif angles, as shewith in the figure.\na1450 Mandev.(3) (BodeMus 116)9/21 : Toward the west was sumtyme the cete of Tray..But now ther schewith but litil therof, for it is longe sythen that it was stroyed.\n?c1450(a1388) Wallingford Exafrenon (Dgb 67)205 : Mercurie has 10 grees of Tauri, fro 10 unto 20 the Mone, and fro 20 unto 30 Saturne. And so forthe as it shewis in the table next folowynge.\n?c1450(a1388) Wallingford Exafrenon (Dgb 67)207 : I have sett a table general, in the which the dignites and the kyndes of all the planetis shewis with the kyndes of the signes.\n?c1450(a1388) Wallingford Exafrenon (Dgb 67)213 : A planete..ever the nerther the Erthe, the febleere he is..And showies felyngly be the Sonne [L Hoc patet in Sole sensibiliter], for the dayes ar hoteer when the Sonne is in Cancro or in Leone than when he is in thar nadir.\nc1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)9/243 : If ye lust doon me thynke..I had yowre hert..als shewe it [read: shewith] lo, at sight That without hert not may y leven this.\n(a1475) Recipe Painting(2) in Archaeol.J.1 (Sln 73)155 : Lapus lazuly, that be a fyne blew colour, and with many strakes of gold schewinge ther among.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)80/235 : For my sawys, in ʒow shewyth sygnes of shame.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)147/25 : I trowe it is tokenynge of gras þat shynynge shewyght be-forn.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)1769 : Loke in your vesselle which colour shewith moste; He þat causith him is principalle of the hoste.\na1500 GRom.(Glo 42)748/7 : Open tokenes schewed in hir face þat þou haste Rauesche her.\na1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)22a/26 : When þe wounde of the fell is so muche þat the brekyng of þe scull shewith hym, se if the boon þat is brokyn be of good restoryng vnder the hole.\n?a1500 Othea (Hrl 838)50/7 : Where trew love js, hytt scheweth; hyt wyl nost [read: nott] feyne.\nc1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)791 : Bolde burnez were þay..Of ble as þe brere-flor where so þe bare scheweed.\nc1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)420 : The grene knyʒt..Let þe naked nec to þe note schewe.\na1425(a1349) Rolle MPass.(2) (Upps C.494)58/9 : Þe whiʒte of þin eyʒen is cast vpward, þi lippes schrynken, þi white teeþ schewen, þi loueli face is becomen al pale, þi heer clodred al wiþ blode.\n?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)39a/b : Þe neruous cordes þat ben in þat place ben bare of fleische & scheuyng.\n?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)57a/b : Kitte þe breste ende longe þe sides and remewe aweie warrelye þe forþer partie..and þe inwardes schal schewen at þe fulle to þe.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)100b/a : Þe wounde..sumtyme..swelleþ so gretelie þat it passes þe wounde of þe braine panne..& scheweþ wiþ oute as it were aneye.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)106a/b : Þe necke & þe þrote weren so swollen þat þe chynne & þe necke were litel lesse schewinge oute þen þe schulders.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)112a/a : Ane eminence in þe yʒe..scheweþ gretelie oute as it were þe begynnynge of a graine of a grape.\n?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)147/27 : Þe aposteme..if it be wiþynneforth, nouʒt schewynge, breke it wiþ þe nayles of þe fyngres.\n?c1450(a1388) Wallingford Exafrenon (Dgb 67)219 : Yf thai [degrees] be fewer, he [planet] sal be suande [L apparens] in the este.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)943/7 : They saw an honde shewynge unto the elbow.\nc1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)155a/a : Þer ben oþere..in þe which yuele fleisch growiþ schewynge wiþouten and excedynge.\na1500(c1400) St.Erk.(Hrl 2250)90 : The fleshe nakyde Bi his eres and bi his hondes..openly shewid Wyt ronke rode, as þe rose.\nc1390 Cato(1) (Vrn)316 : Sunnes askapen ofte in tounes, And schewen In tyme and blinne.\na1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)245/1 : Thou schalt..putte in his iʒe a collirie of thus wiþ al togidere [L cum coto] til þe quitture schauwie.\nc1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)507 : Þe rayn..Fallez vpon fayre flat, flowrez þere schewen.\n?c1400 Sloane SSecr.(Sln 213)11/14 : He sighes, and teres schewes in his eighne.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)111a/a : Mature þe obtalmia whitʒ colirium þe thure wiþ cotoun to þat þe quiture schewe apon þe cotoun.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)152a/a : Þe forseide accidentes schewe not to þat þre daies be passed.\nc1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)4233 : The kyng with Calaburn knyghtly hym strykes..Þat þe schire rede blode schwede one þe maylys.\nc1450(?a1422) Lydg.LOL (Dur-U Cosin V.2.16)5.161 : He [Herod] axede hem and in wordes fewe How and in what wyse it [star] gan firste shewe.\nc1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)3.52 : Anoþer proud partriche..houeth þe eyren..till þat þey kenne, And fostrith and fodith till fedris schewe.\nc1475 Body Pol.(Cmb Kk.1.5)49/32 : Aftir the flowres of trees sheweth [F se demonstre] the frute.\na1500(?c1400) Song Roland (Lnsd 388)661 : Throughe sheld and body the sper went, at the bone of the bak, the baner schewid.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)11473 : Þe sterre þat shal shewe on þe sky His Godhed hit shal signefy.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)988/254* : Þis was þe first time þat iesus..Schewed til anyman after his vp-risyng.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)991/440* : Ʒit apon þe same day he schewd to þis menʒe, And stode amang hom alle.\nc1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)553 : On spec of a spote may spede to mysse..For þat schewe me schale in þo schyre howsez, As þe beryl bornyst.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.6831 : We to þe do non honour..In oure comyng..it ne longeth..Wher rancour is..wiþ feyned fals affecciouns For to schewe.\n?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)14/33 : The doughter of ypocras..lyeth in an olde castell in a cave & scheweth twyes or thryes in the ʒeer.\n?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)49a/b : Þei [nervi optici] enterne vnder þe braine panne and passen þoruʒ him to þat þei schewe more oute in þe holes þat yʒen stonden inne.\n?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)49b/a : Þe vtilite whi þat þe nerui optici be ioyned to gidere..aforne þat þei schewe amonge þe orbites of þe yʒen is for þre skilles.\n?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)52b/a : Þe nerues ben sent fram þe nucha..be cause þat þei schewe not gretelye in þe schulders þer fore it nedeþ not gretelye to speken of hem.\nc1430 Usages Win.(Win-HRO W/A3/2)p.87 : Whanne he shewyþ wyt-oute distresse, wheþer he be of fraunchise oper ne be, and he be of toun, so may habbe daye of toun.\na1450(?1404) As þe see (Dgb 102)100 : In botme of see he [truth] nyl not byde, But shewe in market, on the playn.\na1450 Mandev.(3) (BodeMus 116)95/30 : Adam was nakyd and Eue also..therfore no man shulde thynkyn shame to shewe swich as God made hym.\na1500(?c1400) Song Roland (Lnsd 388)861 : A clowd euyn in the west, as red as blod..shewid doun on the erthe.\na1500(?a1425) Chester Pl.Antichr.(Pen 399)498/202 : Lord, we the honor day and nyght for thowe shewys us in sight right as Moyses us behyght.\na1500 Rule Serve Ld.(Add 37969)11/26 : Þe marshall and he to go togeder and shewe afore the lorde.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.331 : Dedly synne hath first suggestioun of the feend as sheweth heere by the naddre..the delit of the flessh as sheweth heere by Eua..the consentynge of resoun as sheweth heere by Adam.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)prol.834 : The world empeireth every day, Wherof the sothe schewe may At Rome ferst if we beginne.\nc1405 Chaucer CT.Mel.(Elsm)B.2728 : Ye maken no deffense as now for to deffende yow but for to venge yow; and so sheweth it that ye han no wyl to do youre dede attemprely.\na1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)2016 : It scheweth wel that thow were not wis..To take on the this surquedous massage.\n(1423-4) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.181/1290 : These been þe same Acountes as it sheweþ openly afterward.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)4.pr.1.12 : The thinges that thou hast seid me hidirto ben to me so cleer and so schewynge by the devyne lookynge of hem, and by thy resouns, that they ne mowen nat ben overcomen.\n?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)44b/b : A rounde figure is of more capacite þen enye oþer figure, as it scheweþ bi þe autorite of galien.\n?c1450(a1388) Wallingford Exafrenon (Dgb 67)187 : The equinoctis and the solstitiis are mevable as it shewis [L sicut patet]; fore the solsticis of wynter was summe tyme in the feste of the nativite..Nowe it is gone bakward unto the feste of Sancte Lucie.\n?c1450(a1388) Wallingford Exafrenon (Dgb 67)229 : Howe this sal be done it shewis opynly in the 2 chapitre of this treteis.\n?a1450 Sel.Rosarium Theol.(Cai 354/581)72/29 : Werfor it scheweiþ oponly þat noþing þat may be done after þis life may gete to man so mych profete as be giffyng of colde water of charite in þis life.\n(1451-2) Doc.in Welch Hist.Pewterers Lond.16 : Item, receiued of diuerse Bretheren and Sustren for quarterage for an hole yere as shewet by a Bille of hire names, lvij s.\nc1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)56 : He prouyth nay, as yt schewth be þis werse, [etc.].\na1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)226/8 : Sacrifice of the holy oste profetis to the dede, it scheweþ.\na1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)75 : Thys man..was þe very Sone of God, for yt scheweth wele by the sygnes that ben falle yn hys passyoun.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)260 : Mirie time is Auerille, Þan scheweþ michel of our wille.\n?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)44a/a : Þis we see openly in þat huge or grete & vnherd mortalite þat shewed or appered to vs in Auinioun In þe yere of oure lorde 1348.\n?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)36b/a : Anothomye..scheweþ in alle medicyne be cause þat medicyne makeþ mencioun þer off what a mannes bodie is.\n?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)49a/a : Þe eres schewen reised vppe wiþ outen þe heued.\na1450 Chauliac(4) (Cai 336/725)20/9 : Wiþouten þat mai no þing be doon in Cirurgie as it schal schewe forþermore.\n?c1450(a1388) Wallingford Exafrenon (Dgb 67)201 : Venus..[is said] to have lordship of dedis of lecherye..enent the disposition of the body as it shewis in fleshly men of lykynge.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)11749 : Ware hurtyng on his hand to schew, þen wold þe kyng not pase þat sted.\nc1450 Spec.Chr.(2) (Hrl 6580)224/22 : Fyue spices of glotony..be noted in the verse..nimis..to mych..wher-of the herte or the witte be distoorblede..as it schewez in drunkleu men.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)52/2 : Thei ben also tormentid sum tyme with drede as it shewith wel in a couetous man..he supposith euer þat he shal be disceyuid by þeves.\nc1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)193/10 : In cace like, it shewed by the Romayn Fabius Maximus.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)1992 : Thikke maters obediens hath none To þe worching of hete, as it shewith in stone.\na1475 Sidrak & B.in Centaurus 12 (Lnsd 793)230/7341 : Þe sonne..As sone as he shewiþ any þing, We seyn it is in þe dawening.\nc1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)4.30 : Þey..sente side sondis to schreuys abouʒte To chese swiche cheualleris..To schewe for þe schire.\nc1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)4.56 : Some had ysoupid with Symond ouere euen, And schewed for þe shire and here schew lost.\n(a) To have an external appearance (of a certain kind); appear to be (sth.), look like; -- also without complement [quot.: a1375]; refl. be seen to be (spotless, well dressed, angry, etc.), look; of a house: appear to be well built; ~ as, look like (sth.); (b) to pretend to be (sth., meek, holy, etc.), seem; -- also refl.; dissimulate (virtue); pretend (to do sth.); (c) to present (a certain appearance), show (a facial expression to sb.); ~ oute; ~ countenaunce, indicate by facial expression (that sth. is so); ~ countenaunce glad, look cheerful; ~ glad semblaunte, look kindly (on sb.); ~ semblaunte of wrathe, look angrily (at sb.); ~ short chere, appear displeased.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)44/35 : Þe zeuende is maki porchaci þet þet þing þet me zelþ makeþ uor to ssewy betere þanne hit by.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)47/12 : Leuedys and..maydynes..sseweþ ham uayre ydiʒt.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)507 : In comely cloþes was he clad for any kinges sone; whan he kom first to þis kourt bi kynde þan he schewde, his maners were so menskful, a-mende hem miʒt none.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.394 : Ypocrite is he that hideth to shewe hym swich as he is.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)197a/a : Þe maner kynde of Creta chaungeþ periles and makeþ gracious and plesynge and fair schewyng [L persuasorem] and spekyng and ʒiueth might and strengþe.\na1400 Cursor (Frf 14)21606 : Was neuer ʒet na tree in lande sa riche ne sa faire shewande.\nc1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)170 : Wich arn þenne þy wedez þou wrappez þe inne, Þat schal schewe hem so schene schrowde of þe best?\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)prol.11 : Mars..Of colour schewyng lyche the fyre [read: fyry] glede.\na1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)248 : How myche may avaylle..of a kyng..to bern hym fayre In his apport and shewe hym debonayre.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)5340 : The shadowe maketh her bemys merke, And hir hornes to shewe derke.\n?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)48a/b : Þe bones of þe chekes..schewe not but two ioyned vnder þe nose; neþeles þei be nyne.\n?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)25/17 : Þis fewle [phoenix]..in þe sonne he semes wonder faire, for þir er þe colours þat er fairest schewand [Man.(1): he schyneth full gloriously & nobely; F il tresluyt mult noblement].\nc1460(a1449) Lydg.MRose (Hrl 2255)12 : Al is not gold that outward shewith bright.\nc1475 Body Pol.(Cmb Kk.1.5)86/28 : At the firste apparence a matier may shewe othir wyse than it is in effecte.\nc1475 Body Pol.(Cmb Kk.1.5)111/37 : The angry man will shewe himselfe wrothe to him that he is at debate with.\nc1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)145/11 : She was fallen from higher noblesse and honeure that than her estate shewyd outewarde.\na1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)91/18 : Whos cheres sheweth rede and clere, it signyfieth þat he is shamfast.\na1500 Chartier Quad.(2) (Rwl A.338)222/4 : Though..this streight rewle shewe hymself contrarye to the vertu of liberalite, [etc.].\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)38/9 : The faire sonne..castith his bright bemes vpon therthe..and makith the day to shewe more cler.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)40/6 : Who that woll nat begynne..vndir mesure of reason may well be likened to hym that bildith his howse..in manere for to schewe, but nat to endure.\na1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)29b/28 : Cankr..that is with outyn bile..shewyd hym as a lupyn and wexithe othir while as gret as a melon.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)59/11 : Tu ne hafst swa on ðine herte swa ðu sceawest wiðuten, ðanne wite ðu te soðe ðat ðat is michel modinesse.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)26/1 : Þo byeþ uoule ypocrites þat doþ hyre uoulhedes ine halkes, And sseaweþ ham guode to-uore þe uolke.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.2386 : It is a manere sleighte to hyndre whan he sheweth to doon a thyng openly and werketh pryuely the contrarie.\n(1402) Topias (Dgb 41)p.109 : Ʒour sect susteynes wommen to seie massis, shewyng to trete a sacrament as preestes that thei were.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.183 : Pelleus dide his peyne..To schewen other þan he mente in herte.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.11 : Who sit hiʒest, sche [Fortune] can doun hym enclyne..And with hir face þat partid is on tweyne Schewen most hool whan sche is leste to triste.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)5755 : Sich..outward shewing holynesse, Though they be full of cursidnesse.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)399/33 : A soule þat is woundid wiþ þis swete dart of loue schewiþ not oon in þe face & anoþir in þe tonge.\nc1450(a1400) Lavynham Treat.7 Dead.Sins (Hrl 211)4/17 : Ipocrisye is whan a man schewith hym self moor holyer..þan he is.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)34/13 : Thou lyuist in congregacioun..shewyng þi self obsequyous and seruisable to alle þi sistres.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)37/13 : What profite is it..to professe hygh living and in habite shew perfeccioun, if we bisie vs not to lerne vertu and exercise it in dede.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)73/18 : Paciens of simulacioun or ypocrisi is whan only for veynglorie we shewe vs pacient in aduersite forto be praysid.\n?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.20.12b : Þei schewe outward meknesse in habite, in holi speche, in a lowli beringe..bute..hit is but feynid.\n?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)4.109 : Anthiocus schewede hym in the begynnenge as meke and ientylle [Trev.: goodliche; L benignum].\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)194/32 : So al þay þat schoth hom holy to man syght, forto be praysyd of hom..he goþ to..his dampnacyon.\na1500 Add.37075 Gloss (Add 37075)46/187a : Volo..pretendo: to schew.\na1500 St.Brendan Conf.(Lamb 541)15/259 : Ofte tymes haue I schewid me wilfully oþerwise and betir outward, þan I haue be inward.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.2897 : He is moore worth that repreueth or chideth a fool for his folie, shewynge hym semblant of wrathe, than he that supporteth hym.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.1080 : Þe quene Clemestra..shewed oute many feithful signe Of wifly trouþe in hir countenaunce.\na1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)7/12 : Þoow strengþe haue schewede þe glad semelaunde.\na1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)13/28 : Fortune scheweth not chere jlik to alle men at here first komynge in to þis world.\na1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)35/20 : Euere þe euyere chere þat þe world scheweþ þe, þe gladder schalt þou be to part from his felawschepe.\n(1435) Misyn FL (Corp-O 236)101/30 : If in þe seruandis of þis warld schew lufly forme, qwhat sal be þe bewte of godis childyr in hevyn seett?\n(c1438) MKempe B (Add 61823)247/5 : Þe ermyte schewyd schort cher & heuy contenawnce, neyþyr in wil ne in purpos to bryng hir hom to Lynne as sche desiryd.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)56/13 : What maner of heuynes that thin herte haue, thou scholdist schewe a glad visage to thi pepill.\n?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)2098 : In what disees þat he war stadd he shewed ay countenance gladd.\nc1475 Scrope DSP Abbrev.(RwlPoet 32)303/28 : If þou wult dysprayse þyn enmye, shew no cowntynans that he ys þyn enmye.\na1500(?a1410) Lydg.CB (Lnsd 699)306 : All is nat gold that shewith goldissh hewe, Nor stoonys all bi natur..Be nat saphires that shewe colour ynde.\na1500(1439) Lydg.Sts.AA (Lnsd 699)1359 : With that woord out of the place he goth, Shewyg a cheer lik as he wer wroth.\n(a) To exhibit (sb. or sth.) in public, display; -- also without obj.; lay (sth.) open to view; set out (wares) for sale; advertise (a certain size); act (a scene in a play); bear (arms) openly; ~ forth; (b) with indirect obj.: to present (sth.) to the view of (sb.), show (sb. or sth. to sb.); let (sb.) see (sb. or sth.); draw the attention (of sb. to sth.); act (a scene in a play before sb.); (c) to show (a vision, revelation, an illusion, etc.); -- usu. with indirect obj.; (d) refl. to appear, appear in public, be seen, present oneself; present oneself (as sth.); come forward; also, show oneself (to sb.), let (sb.) see one; also, present oneself for inspection (to sb.); ~ forth; ben sheued, be present; ppl. sheued, permitted to appear in public; (e) in phrases: ~ bak, to run away; ~ face, appear, be present; also, let (one's) face be seen; also, look favorably (on sb.); ~ hed (presence), appear in public, come forward; ~ neb, show (one's) face (to sb.); ~ nebshaft, appear (to sb.); ~ shoes, turn away, depart.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)8847 : Anne while after þan, þat glæs-fat an honden nom & sceoweden [Otho: sewede] hit forð-rihttes biforen þas kinges cnihtes.\na1300 Hwi ne serue (Jes-O 29)13 : Vre louerd crist..schal..Showen his wunden, so blodi to-bleden.\nc1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)27/47 : Men vrne nakede al a-boute and wummen al-so..þe schrewene neren a-schamede nouʒt to schewi heore wrechhede.\na1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)71/39 : Gode men..þat holy body nome And..ladde it swuþe to Rome And bure[de] it þer wiþ gret honur, as me sseueþ ʒute In seinte Marie Churche.\nc1330 7 Sages(1) (Auch)31/700 : Eft he makez a gret cri..And pleined him of his mochel wo, And sschewede his child hol and sound.\nc1330 SMChron.(Auch)1419 : Here liþ kenelmi y biried; Fromond at donstaple schewed is.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1938 : For soothly al the mount of Citheroun..Was shewed on the wal in purtreyynge.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pard.(Manly-Rickert)C.347 : Thanne shewe I forth my longe cristal stones.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.603 : Thei come To hire upon a time in Rome, To schewen such thing as thei broghte.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)26214 : Als for-þi þat his ded es knauin His penance open most be schaun [Frf: shawen].\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)2.213 : Marchantz..bishetten hym in here shope to shewen here ware.\na1425 Arth.& M.(LinI 150)1858 : Heore baner heo reryd an hyʒh, Armes heo schewed ryche ykore Þat hadde beon heore fadres byfore.\n?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)45a/a : Þe parties wiþinne þe braine pane a man maie not schewe hem at þe yʒe but ʒif þe braine be deuided.\nc1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)4114 : He schewed the vitayles that thei hadde brought.\nc1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)105 : It is ordeyned..that no regratour in the forseid fisshmarket not selle ne shewe to selle..ony maner of fyssh with ne with oute shille that be corrupt.\nc1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)2335 : Forthy schoue they them to schewe for skomfite of Rome.\na1450 Mandev.(3) (BodeMus 116)41/24 : Aftyr that they shewyn the hed of Seynt Kateryne.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)1015/34 : A pryste..lyffte [Jesus] up ryght hyghe, and, hit semed, to shew so to the peple.\nc1470 Bible F.(Cleve-W q091.92-C468)75/5 : Alle the peple desirid gretly to se the ymage..and Seint Petre might not endure to shew it to them alle for the multitude.\na1475 How GWife Pilgr.(Brog 2.1)30 : The bocher schewyth feyr his flesche, for he wold sell hit full blythe.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)71/1 : Ʒe han sen shewyd ʒow be-fore Of Joachym and Anne here botherys..metynge.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)170/30 : Shewyth on ʒour shulderys scheldys and schaftys.\nc1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)890 : Þei browt ʒow to Myscheffe to conclude ʒour temporall glory, As yt hath be schewyd before þis worcheppyll audiens.\na1500(1465) Leversedge Vision (Add 34193)29 : They Schewid a similitude and shappis of..all the inordinat aray that euer j vsyd, and shoke hit and schwid hit vp to the hill.\na1500 15c.Serm.Cycle(Hrl 2247:Powell)52/109 : Criste..schewyd opynly on þe hye autere of þe crosse..hys preciose body.\na1525(?1437) Cov.Leet Bk.188 : Kepe this rule and ordinanse..that euery Cloth or dosen that ys sold ffor wet-cloth..bere the brede as he shewthe, apon the same peyne.\na1525(?1456) Cov.Leet Bk.289 : Yn euery Pagent was shewed a speche of the ix Conqueroures; yn the furst was shewed of Hector, as foloweth, [etc.].\na1150(?OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)77/19 : Þa cwæð Philippus, 'Drihten, æteowe us þone Fæder..' Se Hælend cwæð, '..Hwu segst þu, Sceawe us þone Fæder?'\nc1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)8/4 : He sceolde..sceawan him alle þa ðing..Butan hure þingæ he nefræ þa ʒyrdan him sceawiʒen ne moste.\na1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.DD (Lamb 487)41 : Þa scawede mihhal to sancte paul þa wrecche sunfulle þe þer were wuniende.\nc1225(?c1200) SWard (Bod 34)28/257 : Ich iseh etscene þe studen of his [Christ's] wunden & hu he schaweð [Tit: scheaweð] ham his feader to cuðen hu he luuede us.\nc1225(?c1200) SWard (Bod 34)30/285 : Ich beheolt te Martyrs &..þe blisse þet godd..schawede [Tit: scheawde] ham to cumene.\nc1300 SLeg.Nich.(LdMisc 108)204 : Þe bischop..schewude [Hrl: schowede] hem þat oynement.\na1325 SLeg.Patr.(Corp-C 145)531 : Hi ladde him aboute & ssewede him þat lond ver & ney.\nc1330 Otuel (Auch)1318 : Whi scheuwestou þe teþ to me, I nam no toþ drawere.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))John 10.32 : I haue schewid to ʒou manye goode werkis of my fadir.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.1118 : This chanoun took out a crosselet Of his bosom and shewed it the preest.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)23968 : Þai had him [Christ] bath for-driuen and draun Als sceud [Göt: scheu; Phys-E: schawid] es us to sight.\na1400 Man siker helpe (Hrl 7322)2-3 : Þe moder here sone sewet here brest; þe sone his fadir ssewet his side.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)prol.188 : Be we neuer so bolde þe belle hym to shewe.\na1425 Here begynnes a new (Roy 17.C.17)445 : Marye es modere & madyn..& schues hyre Sone hyre brest swette.\na1450 Also take (Add 37049)4 : The fawconere..Schews to the hawke rede flesche to see.\na1450-a1500(1436) Libel EP (Warner)34 : For iiij thynges oure noble sheueth to me, Kyng, shype, and swerde and pouer of the see.\nc1450(c1400) Rev.Jul.Norwich (Add 37790)73/16 : Than owre lorde openedde my gastely eyen & schewyd me my saule.\nc1450(c1405) Mum & S.(2) (Add 41666)317 : Who-so were in wire and wold be y-easid Moste shewe þe sore þere þe salue were.\n(1459) Paston2.186 : Schew me not the mete; schew me the man.\n?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.29.18a : In seknes scwende [?read: schewende] his sores [to] god as to a leche.\nc1475 Body Pol.(Cmb Kk.1.5)49/4 : It shulde be tolde him of the pour..and shewe [F monstrer] theim him and telle him that he oughte to haue pyte..upon theim.\nc1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)591 : A praty game xall be scheude yow or ʒe go hens.\nc1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)746 : Ʒef he her wyll se, Y wyll hym schewy þe, Be day oþer be nyʒt!\na1500 Bod.EMisc.Lapid.(BodEMisc e.558)27/128 : Yf he plete, shewe this stone [Calcydone] to his aduersarie, she helpith moche his cause.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)110/12 : Crist wolde her on worlde sceawen his aʒene ansyne his leorningcnihtæs swa beorhtlice..swa hine alle haliʒe on heofenæ rice iseon sceolden.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)118/21 : Drihten sæwæde [read: scæwæde] him eft oðre siðen þa gastlice sihðe.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)120/20 : For mucele arfestnesse Crist sceawde his leorningcnihtæs þa godcunde sihðe.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)10940 : Nohht ne birrþ ʒuw lefenn..þatt tatt cullfre Wass Haliʒ Gast..Acc itt wass shawenn þa þurrh Godd Forr þatt itt shollde tacnenn Þatt Haliʒ Gast iss milde & meoc.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)31/18 : For ði sade Dauið..quis ostendit nobis bona?..Hwo is, þat us muʒen sceawin ða gode ðe ʒe us behoteð?\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)130/24 : Þe uour cornardyes þet amerreþ þo contraye þet god ssewede to zakarie þe profete.\nc1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.5 : Þe siʒth is shewed [F la revelacion..est feite] hym by þe Aungel.\nc1390 Disp.Christian & J.(Vrn)237 : So weore þei war of a Rode..And a bodi þer-vppon..Whon he was schewed to þe siht..His woundes gon blede.\na1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)432 : Iosep of dremys had ʒyue no kepe what hym was shewed yn hys slepe.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)1308 : Tent to thinges at þi might þat sal be sceud [Frf: shewet; Göt: scheud; Trin-C: shewed] vn-to þi sight.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)4588 : Leue sir king, Godd has þe sceued [Göt: schaud; Trin-C: shewed] a fair warning.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)19889 : Ane quen þis wessel thris was scaun [Frf: shawen; Göt: schaun] Again it was til heuen draun.\nc1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)692 : He..scheued hym þe rengne of God.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.910 : But of our feithe we ouʒte to defye Swiche apparencis schewed to þe eye.\na1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)1225 : Adrastus..troubled was be occasion Of a sweuen and a vision Shewed to hym vpon a certeyn nyght.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)5.1447 : He thought..that Joves, of his purveyaunce, Hym shewed hadde in slep the signifiaunce Of hire untrouthe and his disaventure.\na1425(?a1400) Cloud (Hrl 674)107/13,15 : Alle þe reuelacions..haue goostly bemenynges & I trowe þat & þei vnto whome þei were schewid, or we for whome þei were schewid, had ben so goostly..þat þan þei had neuer ben schewed bodily.\nc1425 *Wycl.Concord.(Roy 17.B.1)161b : A visioun bi nyʒte was schewid to poul.\nc1450(c1400) Rev.Jul.Norwich (Add 37790)39/1 : There es a vision schewed be the goodenes of god to a deuoute woman, and hir name es Iulyan that is recluse atte Norwyche.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)61/16 : Forto se him [God] face to face, wich sight sumtyme oure lord shewith to summe clene soules hiere in erthe a fore here deth.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)104/1 : Hwilon he sceawæð hine seluen on engles hywe.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)55/601 : Lihtest hider to us..& were ibeðleem iboren..& to þe hirden schawdest [Roy: schawdeste] te.\na1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)134 : To þe temple he wente aʒen..To shewe him aʒen þe ffeste.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)2547 : Arise vp, for it is nede, And þine men þou schewe þe to.\nc1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)671 : Graiþed y wil he be, And seþþen schewe him as kniʒt.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)62/29 : Þy dyeuel him sseweþ ine uele ssefþes and him chongeþ in uele wysen þet uolk uor to gyly.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.8.4 : Say thou to no man, but go, shewe thee to prestis and offre that ʒifte that Moyses comaundide.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))2 Cor.5.10 : It byhoueth vs alle for to be schewid [L manifestari] bifore the trone of Crist.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.105 : A dredful horsman schovede hym forþ [L apparens].\nc1390 NHom.Narrat.(Vrn)25.278/51 : Go scheuʒ þe to hem in siht.\na1400 Usages Win.(Win-HRO W/A3/1)p.86 : Ʒef a man þat is in fraunchyse at þe furste somaunce..hym sheweþ [F en curt aperge] he ys y-helde to answerye atte þe þrydde.\na1425(a1400) Titus & V.(Pep 2014)1447 : No crystenman ne dar him shewe, But he wol be al to hewe.\nc1440(a1401) Life Bridlington in NM 71 (Yale 331)p.145 : When he to God wald pray gastly..He was be his one priuely..He wald not shew him opynly.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)3429 : Bathe Besan & Anabras..baldly þam shawis.\nc1450(c1400) Rev.Jul.Norwich (Add 37790)79/7 : A wikkyd spiritte..schewed hym in liknes of a goode angelle.\nc1475 Abbrev.Trip.SSecr.(UC 85)314/10 : The kinge aught [not] to shewe him-self to oft..nor to haunte the felauship of..the comons and olde peeple.\na1500(?a1425) Chester Pl.Antichr.(Pen 399)497/157 : I cannot leffe hym apon but yf he ryse hymselffe alon..and shoo hym here in syght.\na1500(a1450) St.Robt.Knares.(Eg 3143)1218 : All my brether lered and lewed And my systers seryne or shwed In charyte generalle Haue mercy Robert of thayme alle.\na1500 GRom.(Glo 42)753/15 : Crist..schewys hym naked, spoylede vpon þe crosse, and his woundes.\na1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)32b/10 : Shewithe hym no thyng of þe whit but ther is flesshe substaunce and þe eye lyddis bene to swollyn.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Roy 17.A.27)49/422 : Þus he schrudde & hudde him alre þinge schuppent mid ure fleschliche schrud & schawde [Tit: scheaude] us his nebscheft.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)49/16 : Schaw þi neb to me..bihald me.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)81/13 : Alswa þe eadi iacob þa ure lauerd schawde him his deorewurðe nebscheft & ʒef him his blesceunge.\n1370-2 I am by-wylt (ShropRRC Deed 16329)28 : Now heo haþ schouuet me hire schon, & from me ys y-gon.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2677 : Arcite hath of his helm ydon And on a courser for to shewe his face He priketh endelong the large place.\nc1390 Lord swete Ihu (Vrn)39 : On domes-dai..Scheuh us þi face freo And bring vs in to paradys.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.661 : Thise robbours and thise theues..Holden hir pryuee fereful residence As they that dar nat shewen hir presence.\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)163,168 : Mychel she desireþ to shewe hire body, Her faire here, her face rody..So dude þe dame Olympyas, Forto shewe hire gentyl face.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.2491 : It is to hiʒe a routhe A man to apere or dore schewe his hede After tyme whan his worschip is ded.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.110 : Do wey youre barbe, and shewe youre face bare.\nc1450(c1385) Chaucer Mars (Benson-Robinson)170 : That what wight that first sheweth his presence, When she is wroth and taketh of hym no cure, He may not longe in joye of love endure.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)928 : Ph[ilip]..Braidis on his blonke toward þe burʒe & þaim þe bak shewis.\nc1475 Þe tyme approcheþe (Hrl 2251)p.309 : Suffre augmentacioun to shewe hir face By addiciouns to make hir purchace.\nIn nonverbal communication: (a) to point out (sth., sth. to sb.), indicate; lead (sb. to a place or an event); specify (sb.), mark out; show (the way); also fig.; also, fig. characterize (a heretic); ~ to, point to (sth.); sheuinge finger, the index finger; sheuinge token, a clear indication; (b) to prove (sth., that sth. is so); provide (a lesson, an argument), be a living proof of (sth.); be evidence (that sb. is sth.); give nonverbal evidence of (sth.); (c) to make known by action, symptom, symbol, etc. (that sth. is so, how sth. is so); make (sth.) known (to sb.), announce, signal; proclaim (sth., that sth. is so) through clothing, etc.; give (an example); also, exemplify (justice, a grammatical form); ~ under, glossing subostenden v.; (d) to teach (sth., that sth. should be done); (e) to reveal (sth.), expose; make (sth.) visible, make conspicuous; also, illustrate (sth.), highlight; also, find (a friend), discover; ~ oute; ben sheued, be apparent; (f) refl. to reveal oneself, reveal oneself (as sth.); appear (to sb.); expose oneself (as sth.), give oneself away; also, be favorable (to sb.); ben sheued, be revealed.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)109/29 : Cum in to ðo londe ðe ic ðe wile sceawin.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)111/12 : Nim ðine sune [Isaac]..and offre hine me upe ðare dune ðe ic ðe wile sceawin.\nc1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)32/104 : To tweie Monekus at Ierusalem him-sulf he cam bi niʒhte And schewede heom ʒware is heued lay.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)8392 : Durst ʒe gon wiþ me siker Y wold ʒou schewe a selcouþe biker Whar ʒe schul win wining.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Esth.13.6 : Wee comaundiden þat who so euere Aman..shal shewen with wyues & fre childre be þei don awei of þer enemys.\n(c1392) EPlanets (Peterh 75)26/6 : As the label turnyth so shewith it the epicicle of euery planete.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)6609 : Sceus [Frf: shew; Göt: Schews; Trin-C: Sheweþ] me son..Quar yee haue þe manna hidd.\na1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)3430 : Saint iohn þe baptist..til man scheud iesu crist.\n?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.70 : William was oglyft, his helm was fulle of myre..þat falle mad him ofright..þan said tille him a knyght..'þi helm has wonne lond, þat þe lond is þin, þi helm schewes it þe.'\na1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)41/13 : Þenne god schewede a tre to Moyses wich wan it towchede þe flod, a non it was turned in to swete licor.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)5.pr.1.15 : I haste me..to schewen and openen the wey [L uiamque..aperire] by which wey thou maist comen ayein to thi contre.\n?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)155b/b : Þe veyne wele auised & y-founden wiþ þe pulpe or brawne of þe shewing fynger.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)238/32 : This is a verry schewynge tokene, for to knowe whanne it is disceyt and whanne not.\nc1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 277)22/30 : At first putte the leche þe schewyng fynger of his left hande..into þe lure.\na1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)2.12.3 : Fro the arisyng of the sonne til it go to reste, the nadir of the sonne shal shewe the houre of the planete.\na1450 Mandev.(3) (BodeMus 116)3/25 : I schal shew hym the weye redily..for I haue ful ofte sythis [read: sythis ben] there..passed bothe on horse and on fote in good compaynye.\na1450-a1500(1436) Libel EP (Warner)599 : What nedeth a garlande..of ivye Shewe a taverne wynelesse?\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4049 : Þar þai schewid him in schurrys to schellis & to caues.\nc1450 Metham Palm.(Gar 141)86/10 : This fourthe lyne begynnyth be-twene the schewyng fyngyre and the longe fyngyr.\n(c1450) Capgr.St.Aug.(Add 36704)22/27 : Tho toke he þe book on-to..Alipius, and with his fynger or sum othir tokne schewid him þe clause be-for red.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)46/84 : Thy welbelouyd childe þou must now kylle..Evyn vpon ʒon hey hylle þat I þe shewe.\na1500(?c1378) Wycl.OPastor.(Ryl Eng 86)429 : Fourty signes þat þey bringen forto shewe an heretik ben not worþy to reherse.\na1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)371 : Nascien..shewde hym [Arthur] with his fynger.\na1500 Add.37075 Gloss (Add 37075)31/148b : Premit: shewyt.\na1500 Add.37075 Gloss (Add 37075)71/309b : Index: schweyng fyngyr.\na1500 Hrl.1002 Gloss.(Hrl 1002)626 : Res uisas indicat index: schewyt forefyngure.\na1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)92 : Yf thou be Jhesu Cryst, schew me the sepulcre that y leyde the yn.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)14382 : Whanne I shall drinnkenn dæþess drinnch..Þa shall I shæwenn þatt icc amm Soþ mann i mennisscnesse.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)24/163 : Þi schene nebscheft ant ti semliche schape schaweð wel þet tu art freomonne foster.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)151/3 : Þi swincfule pine þet hit swincful wes, he schawde [Nero: scheau-wede] hit witerliche inoh, þa he sweatte..blodes swat.\nc1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)151 : Whi nel tu flon in to þe bare, & sewi [Jes-O: schewi] þare [read: ware] unker bo Of briʒter howe.\na1300 I-hereþ nv one (Jes-O 29)618 : Vre louerd nom and et þer-of to-uore heom euervychone, And sewede þat he wes a-ryse.\na1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)18/68 : Aliue ich am ʒute her Hol and sond wiþoute wonde to ssewe Godes poer.\na1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)380/205 : A Louerd, much is þi miʒte as þou ssowedest in þin hine Þat eni bodi miʒte aliue an eorþe þolede [read: þolie] such pine.\na1350 St.Marina (Hrl 2253)186 : [They] Letten after þe abbot sende..ant shouueden hit wes a womon.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)1575 : Ouer ous a sky houe Þat ous schewed þe biʒate Of swi[che] a þing on erþe late Þurth was blod þe castel Schuld stond fair.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)255b/a : Worchynge of þe soule scheweþ and kyþeþ þe goodnes of wyne.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)27953 : Hu ful þat sin for godd was sen Was sceud wit his wengeance ken.\na1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)2555 : O Cruel Mars..hoot, combust, and drye, As the sperkes shewen fro so ferre By the stremes of þi rede sterre.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)4.pr.6.324 : The prosperite that is yeven to schrewes scheweth a gret argument to goode folk what thing thei scholde demen of thilke welefulnesse.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)352/33 : Tribulacioun is a tokene þat schewiþ parfiʒt charite of þe soule & also imperfeccioun of þe soule.\n?c1430(?1383) Wycl.Curse (Corp-C 296)311 : Seynt Jon Crisostom..stire hem [usurers] to..schewe in dede þat þei seken more profit and savynge of Cristene soulis þanne here owene wynnynge.\n?c1430(c1400) Wycl.Curates (Corp-C 296)145 : Þes curatis bryngen not message of god, but of þe fend, as here wickid lif scewiþ [vr. schewiþ].\nc1440(a1401) Life Bridlington in NM 71 (Yale 331)p.142 : He was supprioure, Worthy to gretter dignite, Þat shewed he when he had þe cure.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)21/20 : Aiþer oþer for to saue, deeþ wolde þole..þis schewiþ wel to vs oure Lord Ihesu Crist, þat in ensaumple to vs..ʒaf hymself to schenful deeþ vs for to make his eyres in heuene.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)13082 : Heyre may we fynd..exsempyll schewd to our syʒt þat no man suld be in dyspare of goddes mercy.\na1456 Marmaduke SSecr.(Ashm 59)218/9 : All maner of worldely suffisaunce þer haboundeþe..Þe whiche þinge palpabully sheweþe þe hye polecye of þe prince consell.\na1475(?1445) ?Lydg.Cal.(Rwl B.408)105 : Now helpe us, good lady, in oure nede..And shew us þu art a gentil woman.\nc1484(a1475) Caritate SSecr.(Tak 38)193/14 : A masenger schewyth þe wysdam of hym þat he is sent fro.\na1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 3909)725 : For by fyue signes shawede hit was that maiden ho was.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.210 : Multitude of martyris..prouyth nouth goodnesse of þe peple..it schewith & prouyth þe malyce of þe peple.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)99/29 : Tremblyng membres shewith the sekenesses and the gref of the harte.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)126/2 : The auncient prynces of Fraunce also shewith wele a preef in the same, For thei that yaue themself most to God..hadde the victorye of their enemyes.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)108/763 : Ic schal schawin hu mi sweort bite i þi swire.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Roy 17.A.27)55/480 : Þe weolen of godes wisdom, þah in þis an þing he schawde [Tit: scheaude] ant sutelede inoh: þat he wes soð godd.\nc1275 Ken.Serm.(LdMisc 471)215/37,39 : Þo þrie kinges..be þet hi offrede gold..seawede þet he was sothfast kink; and be þet hi offrede Stor..seawede þe[t] he was verray prest.\na1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)2/26 : Byuore he set..Is trompours to scheuwe wat he is & is baner þerto.\na1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)80/66 : He sent is oste forto smite and forto þretny ofte To ssewy men wanne he smit þat is dunt nis noʒt softe.\na1350 Lord þat lenest (Hrl 2253)33 : Habbe he a fauce filet he halt hire hed heʒe to shewe þat heo be kud..for strompet in rybaudes rewe.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)46a/b : Þe qualite of man & womman demeþ and schewiþ þe nombre of teeþ, for a man haþ moo teeþ & a womman lesse.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)909 : To sceu þi scath be noght vnkid, þou sal haf euer þi heued hid.\nc1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)8.15 : Bisshopis þat blissen & boþe lawes kenne..bere hem boþe on here bak as here baner shewiþ.\nc1400(c1382) Wycl.PRSchism.(Dub 244)249 : For every man..and specially prelatis, schewen bi her werkis whos children þei beþ.\n?1403 Yk.BPrayer(1) (Harv Widener 1)64/14 : For al prelates..that god len thaim grace..swilk ensaumpil for to tak or scheu thaim..that it may be louing unto god.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)6480 : As thyn abit shewith wele, Thou seruest an hooly heremyte.\n?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)143/20 : Aposteme of þe þrote..when it is in þe ynner lacertes of þe wesant..is openly schewed to þe resoun by more offence of þe swolwyng.\nc1440 HBk.GDei (Thrn)27/18 : Ensampill es schewed vs of gud werkes, And we are hyrede for to wyrke.\na1450 As ofte (Tan 346)44 : Nyghtyngales..For drede awaken agayn the morownyng, And larkes shewen..How Phebus riseth erly in the este.\na1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)373/22 : A light I woll þei haue To schewe þame I schall come sone.\n(1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)93/5 : Our Lord wil schew often to þe world what þo men be whech he louyth.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)128/18 : This is on of þe principal þingis þat longith to good living: forto schew þi professioun both in abite & in goyng.\na1500 Chartier Quad.(2) (Rwl A.338)170/8 : In suche wise is chaungid comon welth..that what force willith and shewith by power, she fulfillith.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)36/6 : In that is schewid His iustice for the more turment of the synner.\na1500 Hatton Informacio (Hat 58)118/306 : A verbe inpersonell of þe actiue voyce in hys declynyng schall schue the iij person of þe coniugacion þat he commyth owt of.\na1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.73 : Herode cledde crist in whitte, what þat ment vnknawing; Þat the haly gast crists innocence wroght, þat subostending [glossed:] shewing vndere prively.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)11433 : Crist..he wollde fasstenn, To shæwenn swa þatt Cristess þeoww..Birrþ stanndenn inn to þeowwtenn Crist Wiþþ fasstinng & wiþþ beness.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)14112 : He turrnde waterr inntill win..Forr all mannkinn to shæwenn swa Forr whatt he comm onn erþe.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)143/8 : S[c]ette þe d[ure]..and bidde þe swa to þine fader..Ðus he tahte mid worde, and mid workes he [Jesus] sceawede þat we annesse and senderlicne stede scolde scechen to þelliche niede.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)67/9 : Hou grat is þe zenne ous sseweþ wel þe wreche þet god kan nyme, ase recordeþ holi wryt.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)73/9 : Purgatorie þe ssel seawy hou god clenzeþ veniel zenne.\na1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)3/32 : Þese wymmen þat peynten hem self with crafti wateres, how fouʒle þei ben to loken vp on experiens schewet.\na1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)961 : Þou hase..made vs to haue angers þair..for to schew þat we Suld to a souerayn bowsum be.\nc1450(a1400) Lavynham Treat.7 Dead.Sins (Hrl 211)5/32-6 : Experience schewyth in dede þe vrchon goth wt his scharp prickis & gadryth to gydere a gret hord of applis.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)157/16 : He wold haue his holy modir spousid to Joseph forto schew þat spousayle was god.\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)3 : Jhu..ouercam hunger in desert..þat he schwe to us þat he þat may ageynsey his wombe..howiþ to be maad Cristis vicar.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.176 : Experience schewyth þat ʒif a man trete mychil with a woman..be day, in þe nyʒt folwyng he dremyth of here some nyce drem.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.289 : Be þese examplis Crist schewyd þat dedys of pyte..arn leful and medful in þe halyday.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)107/2 : Thei shewe them by their assaylyng and techeth them to defende themself and to recover ageyne their victorye vpon the ouircomers.\na1500 15c.Serm.Cycle(Cmb Gg.6.16:Powell:Everett)53 : Owre mercyffull lorde..chees pacience, pouerte, and lovyngly schewyd it vnto vs.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)11512 : An herde made is Oþer peple to teche..And by his owne lyf hem showe Hou þat þei her lyf shal lede.\nc1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)12/158 : Þis mihte [of virginity] is þet an þet is [read: in] þe deadliche lif schaweð [Tit: scheaweð] in hire an estat of þe blisse undeadlich.\nc1300 SLeg.Nich.(Hrl 2277)342 : Þe Gyw..loude he gan to crie & þonkede seint Nicholas þat schewede his tricherie.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)26/12 : Þanne þet hi [hypocrites] byþ uol wexe..ine dyngnetes..þanne sseweþ hy þe kueades þet were y-hole and yroted ine þe herte.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Eph.5.13 : Alle thingis that ben prouyd of the liʒt ben maad opyn; forsoth, al thing that is schewid [L quod manifestatur] is liʒt.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.423 : Thise kutted sloppes..somme of hem shewen the shap and the boce of the horrible swollen membres.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.283 : We wyues wil oure vices hide Til we be fast and thanne we wol hem shewe.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)138b/b : Snowe is noiful to wilde bestis for he hidiþ & hileþ here leese & pasture & schoueþ and wrieþ here forewis and stappis.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)prol.106 : Þe power..To bynde and to vnbynde..to close and to shutte And to opne it to hem and heuene blisse shewe.\na1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Is.56.1 : For whi myn helthe is niʒ, that it come, and my riʒtfulnesse, that it be schewid [WB(1): be opened; L reveletur].\n?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)68a/a : Off þe whiche [bladder] þe dede, þe substaunce, and þe pocicioun ben schewed [*Ch.(1): is y-shewed; L apparet] þe whiche ben souʒte in oþere members.\n(?c1436) Duke Burgundy (Rome 1306)49 : Thy falsnes was shewed openly In that thy lige lord thou woldest neuer see, While he was in france.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)19/31 : The sonne be his clernes schewith thinges that be hidde.\nc1450(a1400) Lavynham Treat.7 Dead.Sins (Hrl 211)11/31 : Hate of herte..at þe laste wt a iudas kesse schewith a loue y fayned.\nc1450(c1400) Rev.Jul.Norwich (Add 37790)48/21 : Alle this blyssede techynge of oure lorde god was schewyd to me..be bodylye syght..& be gastelye syght.\nc1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)91/11 : Þer-fore þe prosperite sheweþ no frende, ne aduersite covers none enmye.\nc1450 De CMulieribus (Add 10304)164 : Oon contrary euere shewyth anodyre: The daye is knowen clerere for the nyght.\na1500(c1380) Wycl.Papa (Ryl Eng 86)470 : Þis makiþ þe pope & bischops to axe richessis to þer staat; for..þer staat wolde perische but ʒif siche richesse shewide it out.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)2.227 : Þe outcloþinge of men of holy chirche..schulde nout ben to streyt ne to schort to schewyn þe schap of her body for pryde & vanite.\na1500 Add.37075 Gloss (Add 37075)27/ 144a : Apocalipsor: shewe.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)21/15 : His fair hevinnes turnith the influence and shewith withowt seacyng the clerenes of light aboute the erthe.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)116/8 : Hwylce sawedon [read: scawedon] heo heom?..Lucas..sæʒð 'Moyses & Helias wæron isæʒene..on wuldre.'\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)31/10 : He [Christ] cumþ eftsones to sceawien him seluen.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)96/668 : Vre lauerd him seolf com wið engles..ant schawde him ant sutelede him seolf to hire seoluen.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)127/8 : Efter his ariste, þa he com & schawde [Nero: scheawede] him.\nc1300 SLeg.(Hrl 2277)491/233 : Ich am God þat þu seruest wel; ich wole me schewe to þe.\na1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)1900 : Þis was..þe ffurste tyme þat Ihesu..Shewede him to eorþlich man after his vprysyng.\nc1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)122/226 : Furste a schewed hym..To..Marye magdaleyne.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)13/12 : Uor to uoluelle þe writinges he aros uram dyaþe to liue and sseawede him to his deciples.\nc1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.1 : Oure swete fader of heuene..schewed hym þorouʒ iesu crist, goddes sone, & þorouʒ his myldenesse ouercom hem.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))2 Thes.2.6 : Now what withholdith, ʒe witen, that he be schewid in his tyme?\n(a1392) Clanvowe 2 Ways (UC 97)77/782 : He aroos froom deeth to lyue and schewede hym to manye men and wommen.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.916 : Thogh that the feend noght in oure sighte hym shewe I trowe he with vs be that ilke shrewe.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)179b/a : Parys in þise tymes..fongeþ alle þat cometh oute of euery cuntre of þe worlde and..sheweþ hire self detty to wyse men and vnwyse.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)17039 : Þar scheud he him for mighti godd [Trin-C: he shewed him myʒty god].\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)22244 : Þe anticrist him sal noght scau.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)25526 : Þou mistred þe..To maria magdalene, þou sceu [Göt: scheu] þe, lauerd, al vntil us.\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)4039 : Jt is ywrite þat euery þing Hym-self sheweþ in þe tastyng, So it is of lewed and clerk -- Hym-self sheweþ in his werk.\nc1400(?c1382) Wycl.Lincoln.(Bod 647)231 : Freris..schewen hom Anticrist clerkes, contrarie to Crist.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)104/20 : I..haue schewid me to hem and maad me visyble, where I was and am invisyble.\na1450 SLeg.Fran.(2) (Bod 779)349 : He chewed him to vs in fourme of helie.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)76/20 : We schew oure self more reprovable in þat we avenge oure self be such vnpaciens.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)1668 : Hou may aungel, þat is no body, Shewe him to man here opunly?\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)10143 : Goode soules þat ben in blisse Mowen..Shewe hem to frendes þat wole hem se.\n(a) To treat (sb.) with (a certain kind of behavior, some quality, passion, etc.); bestow (grace, mercy, etc. on sb.); behave (in a certain way toward sb.); -- also refl.; ~ ayenes, visit (wrath) on (sb.); ~ of (in), bestow (grace, mercy) on (sb.); (b) to put into effect (a virtue, vice), exercise; act with (intelligence, courtesy, fidelity, etc.); express (anger, folly, etc.); ~ forth; ~ oute; (c) to bestow (mercy, grace); act with (partiality, rigor, etc.); also, send (the Holy Ghost) [quot.: St.Erk.]; (d) to demonstrate intentionally (power, skill, etc.), make manifest; ~ forth; (e) to give an outward indication of (sth.), evince; give an outward indication (that sth. is so); also, give (an outward indication of sth.); ~ oute; on manere sheuinge, uniform, single-minded.\na1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)89/35 : Foretacnen..tacnieþ þone styrnlicne ege, þe God sceaweð þan arleasen.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)16520-22 : Godd himm shæweþþ towarrd te Aʒʒ o þatt illke wise Þatt tu þe shæwesst towarrd himm..Ʒiff þu wiþþ herrte lufesst Godd, Godd lufeþþ þe wiþþ herrte.\na1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)127 : Muchele mare luue he scawede us þa þe he us alesde.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)111/25 : Ðat [mercy] he sceawede him selu to alle nied-fulle ðe him besohten.\na1225 Wint.Ben.Rule (Cld D.3)41/14 : Þe twelfta eadmodnysse stæpe is, ʒif þe mynecena..eadmodnysse eallum þam, þe hyre onlociað, æfre sceawiʒe.\na1300 Louerd crist ich (Jes-O 29)52 : Ihesuc ich þe grete..For þe muchel þoleburne..Þat þu schawedest mon-kunne.\nc1300 Evang.(Dlw 22)424 : Þou..hauist þi merci scehwed [read: schewed] in me.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)9282 : Wiþ gode wille ich þonke ʒou..þat ʒe me so muche loue sseweþ.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1870 : Loö whiche a gret grace god haþ vs schewed!\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)12092 : Þan sul þou sett him to sum scole þar he moght lere..Til eldrin men wirscip to scau.\nc1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)919 : No foschip oure Fader hatz þe schewed.\n(1418) Let.War France in Bk.Lond.E.(Gldh LetBk I & K)74/17 : Yeue vs cause to shewe þerfor to you euer the better lordship in tyme comynge.\n?a1425(?a1350) Castleford Chron.Lear (Göt Hist 740)456 : O irefull forton so gret in breth, Qwy schewys þou so to me þi wreth!\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)322/18 : I wil schewe mercy to þe world.\nc1430(c1395) Chaucer LGW Prol.(2) (Benson-Robinson)361 : Hym oweth..Shewen his peple pleyn benygnete.\n(1445) Claudian CS (Add 11814)263/56 : Stilico shewith feith to Theodosius themperoure.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)2919 : Þis ilke bar-bryn berne grete beute me schewys.\nc1450 Spec.Chr.(2) (Hrl 6580)54/23 : Then schal god..schew..hys wreth aʒeyns synners.\n(?c1459) Paston2.193 : I grete yow well..praying yow hertily that..ye wooll shewe your good maistershep and tender frenshep vn-to the right trew seruauntes of God.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)25/3 : Þi gret pite and mercy may be shewid in me.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)430/27 : Many knyghtes made their avowe that and ever they mette wyth Morgan le Fay that they wolde shew her shorte curtesy.\n(1472-3) RParl.6.26a : Your seid Suppliaunt myght..be gretely hurted without your..grace shewed to hym.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)32/107 : Þerfore þou shewe to hym good wyll.\n(1475) Stonor1.158 : I thankke you for the luffe þat ye sewde to my sole whan ye harde of my distres, as well as ye have sewde to my body afore tyme.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)108/35 : He shewed himself to you as a naturall fader and hadde pite vpon you.\na1500 15c.Serm.Cycle(Hrl 2247:Powell)46/12 : For then [b]e spoliacions..as it was like to haue bene in this reem within fewe yeres, had not Gode shewed to vs of his gode grace.\na1500 Vision Staunton (Add 34193)76 : How mekyll kyndenes and mercy owre lorde..hase schewyde vnto all vnkynde wrechys.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)49/5 : Ðurh ðare michele eadmodnesse ðe he..sceawede..he ouercam deuel.\na1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)79/57 : Lite wit ʒe sseweþ her.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)9318 : Vre prowesse we mote nede ssewe to day ywis.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)3382 : To Londen he bad him heiʒe And þer schewe his curteisie.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)22/6 : Þe uerþe tuyg of þe ilke boʒe huer-by þe proude sseaweþ prede of his herte is yelpingge.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)197 : Alle ledes him louede..so moche manhed & murþe schewed þat child euere.\nc1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)961 : Comeþ aʒen & schewyaþ ʒour vygour.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Tit.2.10 : Seruauntis..be suget to her lordis..in alle thingis schewynge good feith.\nc1390 SLeg.Dunstan (Vrn)108 : Whonne gode Maystres beoþ, sum goodnesse heo wolleþ schewe.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl.(Manly-Rickert)E.495 : Shewe now youre pacience in youre wirkyng That ye me highte and swore.\nc1400(?c1280) SLeg.OTHist.(LdMisc 622)79 : Good is wisdom to schewe, & to hely folie.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)10.395 : Salamon..shewed gret wittes.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)233/27 : Wiþ loue-longynge desire schewith and tellith vertu, and repreueþ vicis in ʒou.\nc1430(c1380) Chaucer PF (Benson-Robinson)572 : Fol, yit were it bet for the Han holde thy pes than shewed [vr. shewe] thy nycete.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)3/21 : I perceyued..the meknes that in you is schewid.\nc1450(a1400) Lavynham Treat.7 Dead.Sins (Hrl 211)10/31 : An oþer [degree of wrath]..is schewyd wt þe mowthe.\nc1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)88/17 : Þis is an ewyll frenshippe shewed.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)15/4 : Schew þi charite and spred þi braunches a brode.\n?a1475 LDirige(2) (Dc 322)137 : Shewe thow forth thy grete goodnes.\nc1475 Chaucer Gent.(Trin-C R.14.51)4 : What man kleymyht gentyl for to be Must..Vertu..shewe.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)55/18 : The wisdam and the feere of worshipfull kyndred is comonly shewed owt of their generacion through vsage of good doctryne and frequentacion of high werkes.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)1041 : Þatt word tatt o Latin iss Nemmnedd Propitiari, Þatt maʒʒ onn Ennglissh nemmnedd ben Millcenn & shæwenn are.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)5258 : Vre suete louerd atte laste ssewede is suete grace & sende þe cristine englisse men þe maystrie in þe place.\nc1330(?c1300) Spec.Guy (Auch)263 : Merci nele he shewe non.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1270 : Þemperour þat worþi william wel oft þan þonked of þe grete grace þat god godliche þere schewede.\na1450 *Aelred Inst.(2) (Bod 423)1014 : Amonge alle thinges, haue mynde on his blessed pacience, hov he shewed pyte for wronge.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)9248 : No man suld þe nowmber knaw Of goddes folke for dowt and drede þat god suld vengance schaw.\nc1450 Dives & P.(Lchf 35)1.48 : Howgh Godes mercy and pytee schall be schewed þat day.\n(1465) Lin.DDoc.120/33 : I wol haue c gownes giffen..to the moste poer men, withoute any favour shewed.\n(a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)119 : To shew rigoure þer as fauour awght to be shewid.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)42/211 : All þis hundyrd ʒere god hath shewyd grace.\na1500(c1400) St.Erk.(Hrl 2250)180 : Jhesus has iuggit to-day His ioy to be schewyde.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)2.288 : God schal schewyn at þe doom gret pyte and mychil mercy.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)14089 : Crist comm þær To shæwenn þær hiss mahhte.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)61/661 : Ah false swa hare lahe..schwau [read: schau] mi mihti godd þi meinfule mahte.\nc1330(?c1300) Spec.Guy (Auch)361 : Þere shewede god his grete miht.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)56/25 : At cherche kan god his uirtues sseawy and do his miracles.\n?a1425(?c1350) NHom.(3) Pass.(RwlPoet 175)690 : He schewes þare som dele of his might.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Deut.5.24 : Þe lord oure god haþ shewed to vs þe mageste & his mochelnes.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.6190 : O Pallas, noble queene, Scheu nou thi myht a[n]d let be sene, To kepe and save myn honour.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)294a/b : Wyse and witty kynde makeþ to vs gameful þynges and wonderful to schewe his might.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)8932 : Godd sceud [Göt: schued; Trin-C: showed] þar-on his mightes ai.\na1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)21/12 : In þe se, he said ful right, Suld he schew ful mekill might.\nc1450(?1436) Siege Calais (Rome 1306)100 : Gonners began to shew thaire art; Into the tovn in many a part, Shot many a full grete ston.\nc1440 PLAlex.(Thrn)35/12 : Late vs schewe oure myʒte and oure strenghe and manly defende oure citee.\na1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)46.219 : Lo, Sire, how the goode lord..schewet his powere Amonges the Cristene.\nc1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)1095,1100 : Appollo..This lytel laste bok thou gye! Nat that I wilne, for maistrye, Here art poetical be shewed.\nc1450(c1400) Sultan Bab.(Gar 140)424 : Shewe forth here nowe your crafte.\nc1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)726 : Dobullnes and Falsnes, schewe yowr myght.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)2.225 : Þey prechyn falshed and errouris to schewyn her wit be curyouste of speche.\na1500 Lydg.Hen.VI Coron.Banquet (Jul B.1)10 : Ageinst miscreauntes themperour Sigismound Hath shewid his myght.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)prol.112 : Of mannes herte, the corage Was schewed thanne in the visage.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl.(Manly-Rickert)E.922 : That neither by hir wordes ne hir face..Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)48b/b : A swete voys & ordynat gladeþ & sturieþ to loue & schewiþ out þe passiouns of þe soule.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)104a/a : Man is I-clepid þe lasse world, for he schewiþ in himself liknesse of al þe world.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)104b/a : Þat partye of þe worlde þat is most pure..haþ þe more on-manere-schewinge [L vniformem] inclynacioun & appetite to fonge þe more noble fourme and schap.\na1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)7/7 : Al þing þat we wolde knowe bi oon of iij maners..eiþir bi his name, or by his worchinge, or bi his verri beynge schewynge [L demonstrantem] propirte of him-silf.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.2033 : Medea..Ne lete no worde by hir lippis passe, But couertly..What sche ment scheweþ with hir Eye..secretly.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)1.pr.1.82 : This companye of Muses..schewing by rednesse hir schame, thei passeden sorwfully the thresschfold.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)194/10 : If þe herte haue sorowe, þe iʒe schewiþ it.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)198/22 : Þe greuaunce of þe herte is schewid out by weping.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)346/24 : It schulde ben holde a greet foly if a man, which were worþi condempnyd to þe deeþ..wente synginge & daunsynge by þe way & schewide tokenes of gladnes.\na1450(a1396) Hilton CPerf.(Paris angl.41)29 : Þei mosten schewe outward sumtyme bi oþere tokenes þat semeþ not myche yuel, what þe herte meneþ.\n?c1450 in Aungier Syon Mon.300 : Go forth symply, schwynge ouer alle the sygnes of mekenes.\n?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)76/23 : The quene caste her loke upon Ioseph and..shewed hym mani foly signes and semblauntz of fals loue.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)175/208 : Now kende knyghtys, be mery and glad, With all good diligens shewe now sum myrth.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)40/7 : What beawte apparent that the bilding schewith, yet it woll..fall vnto ruyne.\na1500 15c.Serm.Cycle(Hrl 2247:Powell)92/32 : Oure souereyn savioure shewid grete tokenys þat he lovid pees.\n(a) To make known (sth., that sth. is so), make clear, report; tell, tell of (sth.); tell (sth. to sb.); -- also without obj.; describe (sth.); declare (one's love); ~ forth; (b) law to make a formal statement of (a complaint, grievance, etc.); (c) to make a public announcement of (sth.), proclaim; proclaim (that sth. is so, sth. to be so); declare (sth. to sb.); introduce (sb.), announce; profess membership in (a religious order), profess (a faith); pronounce (sb. excommunicate); refl. make oneself known, announce oneself; also, pronounce oneself (absolved); ~ acursed, pronounce excommunication; ~ for, designate (sb.), opt for; ~ oute, of the sun: ?proclaim (the work of God); ?make an announcement, make itself known; (d) to narrate (a history, tale, etc.); -- also without obj.; tell (about sb.); (e) to speak; also, prate, babble; talk (to sb.); speak (sth.), say; utter (slander); ~ forth; ~ oute; (f) to refer to (sth.), indicate; of an arithmetical figure: stand for (a certain number), represent; ben sheued, be directed (at sth.), refer (to sth.); be referred to (by a certain word), be called (by a certain name).\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)2424 : Ʒho ʒaff himm swillc anndswere..Forr þatt ʒho wollde shæwenn Þatt ʒho..Nohht naffde inn hire wille To cnawenn aniʒ macchess stren.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)16034 : Cadwalader..Ofte..lette ræde and seowede hit [his dream] þan kinge.\nc1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)22/338 : Ah schawi [Tit: scheawe] we ʒet witerluker..hwet drehen þe iweddede.\n?a1300 Sirith (Dgb 86)69 : Ich nabbe nout ben her Mi loue to schowe Wile þi louerd is in toune Ne mai no mon wiþ þe holden roune.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)2206 : A þing ich wile you here shauwe, Þat he [read: ye] alle ful wel knawe.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)2608 : Þe king þo he sey is deþ, is kniʒtes he let of sende, & ssewede hom alle þen wey woder he ssolde wende.\nc1330(c1250) Floris (Auch)659 : What helpez hit longe tale to sschewe?\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)938 : Y dar nouʒt for schame schewe him mi wille.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Kings 1.4 : What is þe woord þat is don; schewʒ to me.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))2 Mac.14.9 : Byholde to the cuntree and kyn, after thi manlynesse shewid to alle men.\n(1389) Lond.Gild Ret.in Bk.Lond.E.(PRO C 47/var.)55/61 : Ʒif any discord falle betwene any of our breþeren..þe parties schul come to þe wardeynes & schewe here gref.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.185 : Sey forth..Schew me thi seknesse everydiel.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl.(Manly-Rickert)E.104 : I dar..aske of yow a space Of audience to shewen oure requeste.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)1330 : Seth..com þan to þat angel scene And sceud [Frf: shewet] him al þat he had sene.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)16266 : I sal yow scau [Göt: cheu; Trin-C: telle] þe right.\n?a1425(?a1350) Castleford Chron.Lear (Göt Hist 740)40 : To ylkone sere of þame he..askyd..Qwylke of þame most in hert hym lofed; Schew hym þe soth nedlynges behovyd.\nc1425 *Wycl.Concord.(Roy 17.B.1)6b : Whanne suche cheef wordis ben not þe firste wordis..þanne stonden þei absolutly..to shewe redyly where þo textis..may be liʒtly founden.\nc1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.2 : Ʒit must I schewe it forth þat is in me.\nc1450 Mandev.(4) (CovCRO Acc.325/1)1781 : Manna..as men of þat cuntre shewe..is congeled of þe dewe.\nc1475 Why Nun (Vsp D.9)157 : For suche thynges as I schalle the sche [read: schew] I tro hyt schalle set thyne hert in rest.\na1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)238/10 : The blynde man bare the broke-leggyd man, and he with the euel leggis schewyd and told the way to the blynde man.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)594 : Then seide I it were a lewde thing Such maters to shew to a kynge.\na1500 Leg.Cross BC(1) (Wor F.172)214 : He..bihield the amenite, melodie and myrth that no tung of man may shewe ne tel.\n(1425) RParl.4.292b : Item, shewyn and besechyn the Comens, for as mochel as many diverses personnes leeden oute of the Royme..grete nombre of Shepe wolled into Flaundres..That, [etc.].\n(1425) RParl.4.303a : To the Kynge..shewen and besechen..your trewe humble Lieges the Communes..That, [etc.].\n(1435) RParl.4.493a : To the right wise and discrete Communes of this present Parlement, Shewen the Marchauntz of Inglond..That howe the Maistre of Pruce, [etc.].\n(a1440) Let.Coventry in EHR 55642 : To you Worshipful maistre & brotheren of the Gilde..Sheweth William Happesford your brother..howe that he shulde make a tauerne vndur your place.\n(a1440) Let.Coventry in EHR 55643 : To the Worshipfull..bretheron of the yelde of the blessud Trinitee of Couentre, Sheweth & compleyneth..your tenaunt John Broun Draper..the..mees..is full ruynus in mony defautes, [etc.].\n(1450-60) RParl.5.390b : In moste humble wise shewith unto your Highnes..your true and faithfull Subjectis the Mayer, Baillifes, and Comynalte of youre Cite of Exceter..That where the said Cite is, [etc.].\n(1460) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.11 : Henry Waver, Citeseyn and Draper of London, full lamentably shewing and declaring..þat, [etc.].\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)1501 : Tu þeʒʒm shæwesst Hu sinnfull lif þeʒʒ leddenn ær.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)12971 : He Swa wollde uss ʒifenn bisne, Þatt uss ne birrþ uss sellfenn nohht Þurrh modiʒnesse shæwenn.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)70/495 : Her we cnawlechið him soð Godd and Godes sune..Þis we schawið þe; nu sei þet tu wult.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)11813 : Of þe clergie at londone..A conseil he made & ssewede þere þe popes heste.\nc1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)9.14 : Þou þat heʒest me, Lord, of ingoynge of deþ, þat ich swewe [vr. schew; L annuntiem] al þyn heryynges.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Judith 10.16 : Þei ladden hir to þe tabernacle of olofernes & sheweden hir.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ecclus.43.2 : Þe sunne in þe siʒte shewing out [WB(2): tellynge; L annuntians] in þe issue, a merueilous vessell, þe werk of þe heʒe.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2536 : An heraud..whan he say the peple of noyse al stille, Thus shewed he the myghty dukes wille.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)166a/a : In þise tweye hilles blissynges and cursynges were y-cried and shewede to þe peple.\na1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)11181 : Ʒyf þou wost..Þat two are weddyd and oʒt nat..But þou shewe hyt, þou dost grete synne.\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)4708 : As men hem ladden aboute þe toun, Men shewed þat folk her traisoun.\na1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ps.49.6 : Heuenes schulen schewe his riʒtfulnesse.\n?c1430(c1400) Wycl.FCLife (Corp-C 296)188 : Þe office of a prophete is to schewe to þe peple here foule synnys.\n(?c1436) Duke Burgundy (Rome 1306)60 : Phelippe..Thou shewedest thyself assoilled by a cardinal, The which was withoute power papall.\nc1440(a1349) Rolle Bee (Thrn)55/11 : Ryghtwyse men..ere..gude doande or withtakand ydill men and schewand..worthy to be put fra þe ryste of heven.\na1450 PPl.B (Corp-O 201)10.206 : Scheweth [Ld: Poule preched þe peple..To..gyuen men þat asked, And nameliche to suche þat sueth owre bileue].\n?a1450 Sel.Rosarium Theol.(Cai 354/581)59/18 : Trew absolucion est denoncyng or schewyng like to Godis absolucion..prestes schewyng or denouncing contrarious to Godis dome assouleþ noʒt trewly.\nc1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)165/12 : Machomett..suld be made rewler of þaim, whame þat God shewid for be þe Holie Gaste.\nc1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 174)14/12,13,15 : We denounce & schewe acursyd in þe sentens of þe gret curs..we schewe hem dampnyd..we schewe hem to be takyn to þe powere of sathan.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)10/13 : He þat wenyth..þat he be a religious man or womman and refreyneth not his tonge, his religioun wich he shewith is right vayne and ydel.\nc1490(1471) LRed Bk.Bristol2.130 : We..charge you..that ye..schewe vn to the inhabitauntes..that oure entent is not to punisshe oure said Towne in generalte.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)8/20 : Dissimulacion hath so long tyme occupied the yates..of the courte of princes that trouthe..may haue non entre to schewe the comon wele.\na1500 GRom.(Glo 42)766/24 : By-holdyth, I schewʒe yow gret Ioy.\n?a1300 Jacob & J.(Bod 652)121 : Hi comen to þis chapmen & sseweden here tale.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)7615 : Lete we hem now at þis segeing And schewe werres and wo, In þis lond þat weren þo.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)prol.46 : So for to magnifie The worthi princes that tho were, The bokes schewen [vr. schiewe] hiere and there Wherof the world ensampled is.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.84 : Therfore I Woll wryte and schewe al openly How love and I togedre mette.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)115 : In hir wirschip wald i bigyn..Sumkins iestes for to scaw [Frf: shawe] Þat done were in þe hald law.\nc1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)27 : An aunter in erde I attle to schawe.\na1425(c1395) WBible(2) Prol.John(1) (Roy 1.C.8)4.234 : This Joon..schewith the firste myracle whiche God dide at the weddyngis.\na1425 KAlex.(LinI 150)3494 : Þe geste telliþ..of onde and of wryeng Þat scholde beo saide to þe kyng. Ac for þat lettrure seiþ þer aʒeyn Nul Y schewe hit to nomon.\na1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)9768 : Was no þyng so noble of þewes As men reden of hym & schewes.\na1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)39.8 : Whiche that the storye not telleth here, but here-Aftir it schal schewen ʒow more Clere.\nc1450(?a1400) Parl.3 Ages (Add 31042)585 : Of wyghes þat were wyseste..I schall schortly ʒow schewe.\na1500(?a1475) Guy(4) (Cmb Ff.2.38)10 : Feyre aventurs befelle them (And sythen scheweyd to mony men), For þat they leuyd in sothefastenes, [etc.].\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)117 : For þat hie him swich segen seint ambrosius shewed þus and seið, [etc.].\nc1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)4/20 : Þi muð uleð..þu schawest forð al þet god þuncheð ant helest al þet bittri bale.\n?a1300 Thrush & N.(Dgb 86)51 : Me þinkeþ þou art me loþ Sweche tales for to showe.\nc1390 Castle Love(1) (Vrn)323 : Byforen þe kyng comen heo wolde To schewen forþ hire resoun.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)17504 : Þe maisters..coniurd þaim be godds lau þis words neuer mar to scau [Göt: schau; Trin-C: shawe; Ld: shaw].\nc1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)3.258 : Þe culorum of þis clause kepe I not to shewe [vr. schewen].\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)4.172 : The kynge..recorded þat resoun had riʒtfullich schewed.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)5.77 : Enuye..asked after scrifte And carefullich mea culpa he comsed to shewe.\nc1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)840 : Wyth a schrylle scharp schout þay schewe þyse worde..'Ʒete uus out þose ʒong men.'\na1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)19a/b : Deblatero: shewe.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)29/19 : Sich a man..ʒeueþ hym no preyeris..whiche he is bounde to schewe out tofore me for his neiʒbore.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)48/7 : Avise the, or any worde be schewde Of grete manacynges..Comyng oute of thi mouth be to grete ire.\n(a1443) Paston2.7 : I troste to God to se ʒow at Norwich..to chewe to ʒower good maysterchepe to knowe ʒower entent.\na1450(a1396) Hilton CPerf.(Paris angl.41)11 : Also be-war speciali of..þese þat schewen of hem-silf, and auaunten hem-silf of visyouns eþer of reuelaciouns.\na1450 *Aelred Inst.(2) (Bod 423)117 : Worldly daliaunce shal be shewed furthe, and otherwhile wordes of flesshly loue.\na1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)341 : Waspasian no word to þe wyes schewed, Bot sendeþ sondismen aʒen.\nc1450 Spec.Chr.(2) (Hrl 6580)176/14 : It suffysez not..to schewe swete wordes.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)363/236 : Be-war ye that non of you for here [Mary's] deth schewe hevy speche.\nc1475 Body Pol.(Cmb Kk.1.5)100/14 : The wyse..worde..comyng oute of the mouthe of a prynce is..gladlier harde than the wordis that be shewed of othir men.\na1500 Chartier Quad.(2) (Rwl A.338)176/7 : God knowith what rumour and shamefull sclaundirs thow shewdist [vr. shewethst; CQ(1): gaf] theime that gouernyd the.\nc1450 Art Number.(Ashm 396)44/16 : The nombre that shewith þe quocient most be writ ouer the hede of þat figure.\na1500 Chartier Quad.(2) (Rwl A.338)228/29 : Iustice be nat ther propirly..but it is shewed thus by maner of similitude [CQ(1): yit it is so called by similitude].\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)24/23 : The last of the thre is shewid oonely to the perfeccion of mannys life through the infusion of the Holy Goste.\na1500 Leg.Cross BC(1) (Wor F.172)215 : Cedrus..whiche shewith to vs the fader, hath of custom of al trees to growe highest.\n(a) To teach (sb.), teach (sb. sth., that sth. is so, to do sth.); state (sth.) authoritatively, teach, preach; preach (Christ); ~ of, instruct (sb.) about (sth.); also, teach about (sth.) [quot.: PPl.C vr.]; (b) to explain; explain (sth., sth. to sb.); explain the scope of (a treatise) [quot.: c1440]; expound (Scripture, the law); interpret (a dream); (c) to put forward (a proof, an argument, interpretation, example, etc.); cite (Scripture); also, assert (sth., that sth. is so); (d) to prove (sth.); -- also with grammatical subj. hit in passive constr.; show cause (why sth. should be done); prove (oneself to be sth.).\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)ded.300 : Þatt haliʒ Goddspellboc All þiss godnesse uss shæweþþ.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)6645 : Uss Latin boc Þurrh haliʒ lare shæweþþ Þatt mann iss..full off ille wiless.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)33 : Of þesse blisse specð þe engel and seweð a whilche wise, and þuregh hwam, þis blisse cumen sholde.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Roy 17.A.27)407 : Þe alre schafte schuppent schawde ure eareste aldren adam ant eue þe wit & te wei of lif.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)11/8 : Ich chulle schawi [Nero: scheawe] þe soðliche hwet is godd.\na1250 Ancr.(Nero A.14)75/18 : Assuer..ʒetteð hester þe cwene..alle hire bonen & scheauweð þuruh ham ðet muche uolc..schulden beon uorloren, ðet beoð þuruh ðer ancre bonen iboruwen.\na1275 Serm.St.Nich.(Trin-C B.14.39)65/84 : Þe herte of þis riche mon awei from god is al idon..ant þat þe boc us scewet wel.\na1275 Serm.St.Nich.(Trin-C B.14.39)66/120 : Yeuet on, ye findet tuo, for þe boc us scewed so; date & dabitur uobis.\nc1300 SLeg.Brendan (Hrl 2277:Wright)p.15 : Nath oure Loverd the schowed wel what thu schalt do?\nc1300 SLeg.Chris.(Hrl 2277)114 : Þo was he sikerere..& oure louerd louede more, Forþ he wende to schewi [Ld: siwi; Corp-C: sywi] him & to prechi godes lore.\n?c1335 Nou ihc for þi (Hrl 913)29 : God commandid to Ysay Þat he ssold wend and prech..And to ssow ham god is defens, Boþe to ʒung and olde, Of þe x commandemens.\nc1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.5 : He sheweþ þat he [Jesus] is gynnyng & endyng.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Esd.9.14 : Halewid saboth þou shewedist [vr. shewedest; WB(2): schewidist; L ostendisti] to þem.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)22916 : Sant gregor gaf ansuer honest And..þe soth he sceud [Göt: schaud] him.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)10.36 : He þat hath holy writte ay in his mouth..Litel is he loued þat suche a lessoun scheweth [A vr. Redeþ].\nc1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)14.234 : Reson refusede þe..Ne cleregie of hus connynge kepeþ þe [vr. he] nat shewe.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)102b/a : Þe singnes of simpel enpostumes ben schewed þat þe knowinge of enpostumes þat ben compounde mowe þe beter be vnderstonden.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)283/6 : Boþe in techinge and in lyuinge þei schuld schewe my word.\na1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)introd.58,62 : Yf so be that I shewe the in my light Englissh as trewe conclusions touching this mater..as ben shewid in Latyn in eny commune tretys of the Astrelabie, konne me the more thank.\na1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2)1923 : Lete other mo rede þys boke..Hyt ys I-made hem to schowne [vr. showe] þat haue no bokes of here owne.\na1450 Mandev.(3) (BodeMus 116)143/29 : They han none techeris to shewyn hem of the Sone and of the Holy Gost.\nc1450(a1400) Lavynham Treat.7 Dead.Sins (Hrl 211)3/8 : Crist for bad þo men þt þey scholde not telle it out..to schewyn þt a good cristenman ouʒt not..lokyn to be preysid heere of his good dede.\nc1450(c1400) Rev.Jul.Norwich (Add 37790)39/17 : I leevyd sadlye alle the peynes of cryste as halye kyrke schewys & techys, & also the payntyngys of crucyfexes that er made.\nc1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)3/73 : Y, while y haue lyvis space, Mi sely wille shalle shewe to do trewly Yowre plesore.\nc1455 Chaucer CT.Mel.(HatDon 1)B.2692 : Shewe [Heng: Ihesu crist..hath..yeuen ensample to euery man to folwe & sewe hym].\n?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.24.16a : First schal i schewe þe a litil of preiere and siþen of meditacion.\nc1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)72/6 : Þis teching he schal make openly..counseiling whanne nede is, And þerto remedies schewing, answeris ʒeuyng to doutis.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.133 : Alle doctourrys of holy cherche and skyl and resoun shewyʒt it.\na1500(?a1450) GRom.(Glo 42)728/22 : Þe prechour..gose be dyuerse kyngdomes..for to schewe to hem þe worde of gode.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)752 : Of þis þing we weren ful lewid Til Sydrak had to me it shewid, Þe noumbre of þe holy trinite.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)pref.30 : Jesuss iss Amminadab, Swa summ icc hafe shæwedd.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)1114 : Nu icc wile shæwenn ʒuw All þatt whatt itt bitacneþþ.\nc1300 SLeg.Brendan (Hrl 2277:Horst.)188 : Seint Brendan for ioye wep..And bad oure louerd schowi him what such a cas miʒte beo.\na1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)2072 : Nas oure heorte..brennynge Þe while he spak wiþ vs and holy writ vs shewynge?\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.2618 : Ye enforce yow muchel by wordes to ouercome me in swich manere that I shal nat venge me of myne enemys, shewynge me the perils and the yueles that myghten falle of this vengeance.\na1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)7349 : On seuene maners shal y shewe How lecherye þan ys a shrewe.\nc1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)1.2 : What þe mounteyne meniþ, & ek þe derke dale..I shal ʒow faire shewe.\nc1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)8.52 : He þat..spekiþ for þe pore..Counfortiþ hym in þat cas..Ac for oure lordis loue lawe for hym shewiþ [B: scheweth lawe; C: lawe for hem declareþ].\n(1415) Doc.Conspir.Hen.V in D.K.R.43591 : Y..schewid thaim as fer as y coude quat foly ther was.\na1425(c1384) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Ezek.24.19 : Whi shewist thou not to vs what thes thingis bitokenen, what thou dost?\na1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)25/5 : Alle þe sagis of Babiloun kowde no keies fynde þis visioun to schewe til Daniel vndede hit.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)5/13 : For to schewe the my pistell pleynli, I will the enorte, and telle verili, Of thinges that be full necessarie To hiʒ wurthynes.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)20/29 : Þat may þow vndirstonde, how þis may be, þoruʒ þe grace of God; I schal schewen: Hym þou callest þi broþer, [etc.].\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)53/14 : How þat vertues in soule causeth a man to be glad shewith wel seynt bernard.\nc1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)206/20 : Preiyng..in a langage not vndirstonde..in þe first party of 'cristen religioun'..I it approue..and þe availe þerof I þere opene and schewe.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.160 : Schew me þat.\na1500 Add.37075 Gloss (Add 37075)99/334b : Dilucido: shewyn.\na1250 Ancr.(Nero A.14)68/18 : Ich chulle of bo two scheawen [Corp-C: schawin] uorbisne & preoue.\nc1275 Ken.Serm.(LdMisc 471)220/199 : Hure lord godalmichti..us seaweth one forbisne þet..we sollen habbe þo mede wel griat ine heuene.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)6233 : Ich am..mest fol, þeruore..Mi fole red, ʒif ʒe wolle ihure, uerst ssewi icholle.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2842 : Egeus..knew this worldes transmutacioun As he hadde seyn it vp and doun..And shewed hem ensample and lyknesse.\n(?1387) Wimbledon Serm.(Corp-C 357)118/924 : Þey wenten out to ouercome þe paynemes, schewynge to hem þat here ymagis were none Goddis but mannes werkes.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.2901 : I shal nat konne answere to so manye resons as ye putten to me and shewen.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)19145 : He sceud als wit dede þat þair asking was bot soithede.\nc1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)1.70 : Þanne hadde I wondir..what womman it were Þat suche wise wordis of holy writ shewide [vrr. schewde, schewd].\nc1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)78/11 : Crist scheweþ hit..in þe gospel whanne he seiþ: 'Cursede be bringers forþ of children in þulke daies.'\nc1410 Chaucer CT.ML.(Hrl 7334)B.1182 : He schal no gospel preche here ne teche..He wolde schewen som difficulte Or springen cokkil in our clene corn.\na1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)4110 : Adrastus..to hym calleth such counsayl..Requeryng hem..her mocioun to shewe.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)4.pr.2.147 : I schal schewe the more thikke and contynuel resouns.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)118/24 : Thou shoulde no grete reson shewe to þe man, The which as þat þeim vndirstande ne can.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)21/16 : Þis may þou se þoruʒ ensaumple þat I wole þe schewe.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)32/109 : In feyth, þou shewyst now a febyll skyll.\nc1475 Body Pol.(Cmb Kk.1.5)153/24 : Valere sheweth houghe they whiche in their bokes techeth that glorye and honour shulde be sette at nought desier it theimselfe.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)75 : Fro euery man Thei hidde this arte that no man fynde it can Bi theire bokis, thofe thei shew reson fayre.\na1500 GRom.(Glo 42)761/27 : I sawʒe a dreme; Wher for schewe ye on-to me a-monge yow the terpretacon þer-of.\n(c1380) Chaucer CT.SN.(Manly-Rickert)G.478 : Thanne wol I shewe..That thow hast maad a ful greet lesyng here.\n(?1387) Wimbledon Serm.(Corp-C 357)116/899,117/900 : Þis resoun put I not as to schewe any certeyn tyme of his comynge..but to schewe þat he is nyʒ.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.3110 : That..I schal be reson prove and schewe.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)329b/b : Þe nombre of fyue is compowned of foure and of oon..and so it may be schewed of al oþer numeral figure.\na1400(c1300) NHom.(1) Gosp.(Phys-E)p.109 : On this godspel scheues sain bede Cristes godhed and his manhede.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)24261 : To mi disciplus and to þe Sceu þan sothfast [Phys-E: Schauen soþefastnes] sal i me, For-þi nu most i dei.\n(a1402) Trev.Dial.MC (Hrl 1900)5/5 : Hit may be schewide by Holy Writ þat þe pope is lord of al temporalte.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)6922 : The gospel is ther ageyns, I gesse, That shewith [F demonstre] wel her wikkidnesse.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)3.pr.10.276 : We han schewed that God and verray blisfulnesse is al o thing.\nc1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)55 : ij fre men of that toune to be at a certayne day a fore the ballyves to shewyne [ID(1): a mustrer]..wherfore dissesyn of the same place wasted oweth not to be delivered to the forseyd pleyntyff.\n(c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)63 : Þer may no þing be more able..to reule..þan þat þing þat..is infinite good, And such oon þou art, lord, as is afore schewid.\nc1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.7 : He wrot þis book of consolacioun..schewyng þat þis welþ is temporele And noght to be desired.\nc1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)136/6 : Y schal now schewe þat þo x comaundementis..conteynen not sufficiently..alle þe comaundementis of goddis lawe.\nc1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)199/27 : Yf it most needys be shewed, I shall lay exaumples instede of resons.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)40/13 : Thus I schow by ensampull how þay loued togedyr.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)387 : This reson shewith now How that vndir erth thei multiplie & grow.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)42/15 : By this argument diuerse enforcid themself to shewe the perpetuite of the sowle, the resurreccion of the body, and þe generall iugement.\n(a) To disclose (sth. secret), reveal, discover; disclose (sth. to sb.); also, be disclosed (to sb.) [quot.: a1456]; also, of God: make revelation [quot.: a1398]; ~ herte, disclose one's state of soul; ~ oute; (b) to confess (a sin), confess (a sin to sb.); -- also without obj.; ~ confessioun (lif, shrift); ~ oute; (c) refl. to make oneself known, disclose (to sb.) who one is; also, declare one's love; also, of truth: become known.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)9040 : Ʒho ne wollde nohht Kiþenn off Crist ne shæwenn Nan þing whatt gate he borenn wass Off Haliʒ Gast to manne.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)81 : He hem shewede fortocne bi ionan þe prophete of his holie þrowegunge þe he wolde þolien.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)80/26 : Godd his dearne runes & heouenliche priuitez schawde his leoueste freond.\n?a1289 Ancr.(Cleo C.6)70/5 : Sewid [?c1225 (Cleo): þurch me ne schulde hit neauer beon iupped].\nc1300 SLeg.And.(Hrl 2277)230 : Crienge he was nyʒt & day in orisons wel stille Þat God him scewede ho it were.\nc1300 SLeg.Brendan (LdMisc 108)54 : We ouʒten Ihesu crist þonki suyþe wel with riʒte Þat schewez [Corp-C: sseweþ; Hrl:Wright: schoweth] eov is priuete.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)3053 : Such þinges ywis Ne beþ uor to ssewy noʒt bote ʒwanne gret ned is.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)1550 : Alle..Wonder hadde gret..of child Merlin..Þat he couþe so priue þing Soþe schewen to þe king.\nc1330(?c1300) Spec.Guy (Auch)780 : Man, ne lat hit [shrift] for no shame..Hit shal ben shewed eller wher [read: elles wher]..And þer-of þu shalt haue shame.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)564 : Doubel is now mi duel, for i ne dar hit schewe.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Dan.2.19 : Thann the misterie was shewid [L revelatum est] to Danyel by a visioun in niʒt.\nc1390 Form Conf.(1) (Vrn)342 : I crie god Merci..þat ʒe be my witnesse..seoinge my sunnes and my defautes, holdynge hem stille and not schewyng hem.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.1035 : The prive tricherie Hid under fals Ipocrisie Was thanne al openliche schewed.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Sum.(Manly-Rickert)D.1849 : I pray yow, dame, ye be nat anoyed Thogh I so freendly yow my conseil shewe; By god I wolde nat telle it but a fewe.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)10b/b : He loueþ as charite & knoweþ as soþenes..he scheweþ as liʒt [L reuelat vt lux].\na1400(c1300) NHom.(1) Monk fr.Death (Phys-E)p.30 : His felau..praied him..That yef godd did of him his wille, That he suld scheu his stat him tille.\na1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)14626 : Men will godes sun þe calle, If þu sua be, þe soth þu schau [Vsp: scau].\na1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)963 : Iocasta..gan hym [Oedipus] to constreyne To shewen out the cause of his affray.\n(1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)446 : Schewen, and make knowe to the peple: Divulgo.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)77/9 : Hermes seith: Schewe not þe secretnes of þi thoughtis but to þoo þe which þou hast wel proued.\na1450(a1396) Hilton CPerf.(Paris angl.41)2 : Þer is no-þing hid in þat oones herte þat he ne wole schewe it to þat oþer.\nc1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)607/41 : Resero: to vnluke, or to shewe.\n?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.38.23b : Hit is good..for to schewen here hertes to som wis man..and þat þei schewe nouʒt hem liʒtli to non vnkonnynde and worldli man.\na1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)209/24 : Thou shalt not show to whate thynge thy will moste enclineth.\na1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)189/11-13 : Eliʒabeth askyd hym wheþer sche schuld schewe that vision to the peple or sche schuld hyde it. And he seide it schuld not be schewyd to hem that lyuen after the flesshe.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)1084 : For many auctours write of þat dowte, But none of them shewith it clere owte.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)42/17 : It ought ynogh suffice to euery man suche thinge as the Creatour hath liked to shewe by me.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)73 : Þe man þe naueð luue ne eie to gode..and for þat gult, he solde his sunnes at srifte sheawen.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)34/25 : Sone se ha gulteð..þet ha ne firstin hit nawt to schawen hit i schrifte.\nc1300 SLeg.And.(Hrl 2277)126 : Mi synne is so priue Þat myn hurte hit nele for noþing schowe noman bote þe.\nc1390 In a Pistel (Vrn)22 : Þou nost neuer..Hou lihtly þou maiʒt be forlorn, But þou þi sinne schriue & schowe.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Sum.(Manly-Rickert)D.2093 : Shewe to me al thy confessioun.\na1400(c1300) NHom.(1) Knt.PW (Phys-E)p.139 : Crist..gaf him graz himself to knau And his sin to the bischop schawe.\na1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)7606-7 : Ʒyf hyt be done þurgh custome, Þan falleþ þarfore harder dome; For euery tyme..Behoueþ þe shewe to þe preste; Hyt ys a wysdom to shewe hyt alle.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)26095 : To mak to preistes vr costes cuth..Wit will to bete þat we ha schaun [Frf: wiþ-out glosing truly to shaw].\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)27293 : Þat þe preist be slei..And..Him scham noght sceu [Frf: shaw] his sinnes vte.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)5.142 : Folke han wel leuere Schewen her schriftes to hem þan shryue hem to her persones.\na1425 Rolle FLiving (Arun 507)414 : Schrift of mouth..sal be..nakidli made as þe syn was done, noght schewid in faire wordis.\n?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)209/32 : I..schewed my lif to oure holy fadir the Pope & was assoylled of all þat lay in my conscience.\na1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2)1330 : Hast þou I-towched..Wommones flesch or þyn owne? ʒef þow hast, þou moste schowne.\na1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)992-4 : Vnto god sal I schew my wais, And al my sines with mayn & mode Sal I schew to god so gude.\n1451-1500 Tundale (Wagner)212 : The wykked thoughtes in thy breste Woldest þou never schewe to þe preste.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)2/27 : Alto breste þi prowde þoughtes, and also schew in confessioun to þi confessour.\nc1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)929 : Wndyrstondynge, I sew [?read: schew] to your presens Owr lyff wyche þat ys most synfull.\na1500(?c1414) ?Brampton PPs.(1) (Sln 1853)p.8 : My synne, that I in schryfte schulde schewe, I kepe hem clos for schame or fere.\n?a1525(?a1475) Play Sacr.(Dub 652)52 : In contrycyon thyr hertys wer cast, And went and shewyd ther lyues to a confesour.\nc1600(?c1395) PPl.Creed (Trin-C R.3.15)9 : Whan y schal schewen myn schrift, schent mote y worþen, Þe prest wil me punyche & penaunce enioyne.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)4175 : Merlin him schewed to king Arthour, And he him kist wiþ gret honour.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)939 : Y dar nouʒt for schame schewe him mi wille but ʒif he wold in ani wise him-self schewe formest.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)1096 : Alle-so thei wrote not euery man to teche, But to shew them-silfe bi a secrete speche.\na1500 Chartier Quad.(2) (Rwl A.338)206/10 : The singular properte of trouthe is, the more it is defoulid, the more it openith and shewith himself.\n(a) To bring out (sth.), produce, provide; offer (entertainment), make (sport); fulfill (a wish); provide (an occasion, excuse); provide (a model or an example for sb.); also, hand (a timber beam to sb.); also, serve at table; (b) to extend (a hand, hands), stick out (horns); proffer (one's body, oneself) in combat; ~ forth, put out (one's hand); also, stretch out (a finger), extend; (c) to produce (a document, seal) for inspection; bring (a letter) to (someone's) attention; render (an account); produce (evidence); also fig.; ~ forth; (d) refl. to come into view, appear; also, fig. be plain, be obvious.\nc1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)85/1461 : Horn..Harpe he gan schewe & tok felaʒes fewe Of kniʒtes suiþe snelle.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)1711 : Miri time it is in May..Floures schewen her borioun.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)8657 : Mirie is Iune, þat scheweþ flour.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.243 : By olde money þat was schewed..it was knowe and i-founde þat þey hadde i-slepe aboute a two hondred ʒere.\nc1390(?c1350) Jos.Arim.(Vrn)587 : Scheuʒ me myn hache, and I schal note hit to-day, my strengþe is so newed.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)12405 : To me þou scau þar-of þe tan ende for to drau, And þou þe toþur..We sal it lengh a quantite.\nc1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)122 : Þe symplest in þat sale watz served to þe fulle..with..alle þe laykez þat a lorde aʒt in londe schewe.\nc1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)619 : Þay schewed hym þe schelde, þat was of schyr goulez.\na1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)1027 : Yhit þe bodys of þe world in þair kynde Shewes us for bisens to haf in mynde, How we suld serve God in our kynde here, Als þai do þar, on þair manere.\na1425 PPl.C (Lond-U V.88)12.183 : Schewe [Hnt HM 137: ich shal sewe þi wil; Til þow be a lord of londe leten þe ich nelle..yf fortune lyke].\na1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)436 : Sir Sabyn of Surrie, a siker man of armes..michel peple ladde, Fourty hundred in helmes & harnays to schewe.\na1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)657 : Sen þat y know þe course & þe craft of kervynge, y wold se þe siʒt of a Sewere what wey he shewethe in seruynge.\nc1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)78 : Xall I breke my neke to schew yow sporte?\n-?-(1435) Doc.in Power Craft Surg.317 : Moreouer that no persoone of the seid felowschip or craft reuile ne lieue ne schewe occasioun of malice..ony to othir.\nc1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)3097 : Her houndes praise þou ay, Þi finger forþ þou schawe; Þe quen..Þe ring wil sone knawe.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)32/10 : Þo anlikneþ þan þet ne dar naʒt guo ine þe peþe uor þane snegge þet sseaweþ him his hornes.\nc1390(c1350) NHom.(2) Corp.Chr.(Vrn)370 : Scheuh forþ þyn hond, and þou schalt se.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)268a/a : Þe horned serpent cerastes..huydeþ hemself in grauel and sond & schoueþ his hornes aboute [read: aboue; L ostentat cornua sua] to comforte bestes..to come, as it were to mete.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)17973 : His handes so con he schew to byd þat byttur brayd.\nc1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)65/12 : And ther be any man that dare say itt..I am redy to shew my body that he lyes falsly.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)90/23 : Schew me þy hond.\na1325 *Rwl.Statutes [OD col.] (Rwl B.520)lf.64 : Þe desturbour sal aperen bifore Justises ant sewen his chartre.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)10166 : Þe bissops wende..to þis king Ion & lettres þat þe pope hom sende him ssewede monion.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.882 : The constable..sheweth the kyng his seel and his lettre.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)7.16 : Þus pardoun Piers sheweth.\n(1440) Visit.Alnwick359b : We enioyne yowe..that euery yere betwix Myghelmesse and Martynmesse ye shewe a fulle and a playne accompte of alle the revenues of your place.\na1450 LDirige(1) (Dgb 102)349 : What shal y say for shame and drede..Whanne y shal schewe forþ no good dede Byfore so gret uige and wys?\n(1457-8) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.3 : The..aleye and wall holy belongen to the parson..lasse than the seid parson and parisshyns..can shewe eny evydence or specialte unto the contrarie.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)85/15 : Al pacient soules of persecuciouns han for to shew for hem oure lordis patent letteris.\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)8 : It folowiþ not, if a bedel..schewe þe fre graunt of his lord, þan þat þis seruaunt, þus schewand, grauntiþ swilke maner of fredam.\na1525(?1426) Cov.Leet Bk.106 : I neuer relesed ne made dede except oon shued afore all the seyd wurthy men.\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)641 : Þe sonne wiþdrouʒ, shynyng shene, Þe mone hire shewed, and bicom blak.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)2172 : Þou þou speke euyl..I schal do neuere þe wers. At þe last þe sothe vers Certys hymself schal schewe.\n?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)189 : In þe wounde she [sanicle] wole shewyn her al such as þe pacient drank here.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)62/26 : The secunde token of the divine iugement shewith himself whanne men fall in disknowlage of remedy in aduersite.\na1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)29b/1 : In þat hym shewit the erreur of Roger and Roweland þat sayn þat iche bile þat passithe to thre monethes vnhelyd it is nobill.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)3728 : A sterre him sheweþ on þe sky.\n(a) To perform (a miracle), give (a miraculous sign); also, produce (a magical effect); also, show wonders [quot.: Cursor, 1st]; (b) to bring about (sth.), effect, cause; create (a soul); perform (a service); ~ fore, of God: be provident, provide, ordain; ~ o, bring (blessings) to (mankind); ~ upon, bring (evil) on (sb.); also, mete out (vengeance) for (sth.); (c) to emit light, shine; emit sounds, belch; send out (flame, light), emit; utter (sounds), produce (an eructation); ~ on, shine on (sth.), illuminate; ~ oute; (d) to reflect (sth.); (e) refl. to come about, occur, happen.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)15586 : Whatt takenn shæwesst tu [Vulg. John 2.18: ostendis] till uss Þatt dost tuss þise dedess?\nc1300 SLeg.(Hrl 2277)479/76 : Oure Louerd schowede for him fair miracle.\na1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)141/138 : Euere in hope he was Þat oure Louerd him wolde som miracle ssowe oþer of som uair cas.\na1325 SLeg.Greg.(Corp-C 145)92 : Sein Grigori þe pope prechede hom a day, And ssewede..vair miracle þat ech of hom ysay.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))John 2.18 : What syngne, or tokene, schewist thou to vs, for thou doist thes thingis?\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.477 : God liste to shewe his wonderful myracle In hire [Constance] for we sholde seen his myghty werkes.\na1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)498 : Whan þou trowyst yn a fals þyng, þe deuyl hyt shewyþ for þat trowyng.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)18989 : In heuen on hei þan sal i scau [Göt: schau; Phys-E: scawe] And signes dun in erth lau.\na1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)18989 : In heuen on heʒe shal I showe Signes & on erþe lowe.\na1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Ex.7.9 : Pharao shal sey to ʒou, Shew to us signes.\na1425 Here begynnes a new (Roy 17.C.17)147 : Mo tokyns He schewed tham yette Als sothefast man with tham He ete.\na1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)1349 : Þat fend..On fele maners..scheweid hem syngne Þerfore whilom þey held hure dygne.\nc1450 Mandev.(4) (CovCRO Acc.325/1)610 : There hym secheth many oone..For many faire meraclis þat there ben shewde.\n1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)12/19 : Jesu that was borne on that nyghte that He wold of His grete mercy shewe some myracle.\na1500(?a1425) Chester Pl.Antichr.(Pen 399)510/550 : For verey God we wyll the knowe such a sygne yf thow wyll shewe.\na1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)61 : The sygnes that they schewed wer not on Goddes behalue.\na1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)112 : Alle creatures dyd tremble at thy dethe, and alle the foure elementes schewed sygnes and tokenes.\na1131 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1127 : Þis was his in gang of his ut gang, ne cunne we iett noht seggon; God scawe fore.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)86/23,27 : God sceawæþ þæs monnes sawle on him..Alle þa leafulle fæderæs..sædon & ʒehwær lærdon..þæt God sceawæþ ælces monnes sawlæ.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)ded.276 : Nan wihht..Ne mihhte þurrh himm sellfenn þa Seffne godnessess shæwenn O mannkinn.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Jer.1.14 : Fro the north shal be schewid [L pandetur] euel vp on alle the dwelleris of erthe.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Bar.6.3 : Ʒe shuln see in Babiloyne golden goddis..for to be born in shuldris, shewinge drede to folkis.\na1400 Ancr.(Pep 2498)141/12 : Schrift is a sacrement þat haþ þe liknesse outwiþ þat it scheweþ inwiþ.\na1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)4374 : To bitraye god forbede me wiþ no resoun we ne owe To oure lord suche tresoun showe.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.1630 : Medea..with rytis of diuerse sacrifice Encens and rikelis cast in-to þe fire To schewe þinges liche to hir desyre..To make..sondry apparences.\n?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)40b/b : Þoo veines..schewen perile when þei ben kitte for to grete emorosogie.\n?a1450 Sel.Rosarium Theol.(Cai 354/581)55/21 : Þe preste forsoþe scheweþ or doþe þe office, but he vseþ noʒt or haunteþ noʒt þe lawes of any pouste or power.\nc1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)100/31 : Þe ryghtwis vengeaunce of God at þe Daye of Dome shall be shewed vppon ilke, rebelte and dispite þat is done aʒeyns God.\nc1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)17/501 : But y for drede my countenaunce forpeyne, As with my mouth to shewe a laughtir gay When that myn hert as wepith me withinne.\nc1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)617/26 : Trevulgo: to shewe trewys or tretys.\n?c1450 Brut-1447 (Trin-C O.9.1)482/9 : Peple were sore adredde..of þe weder, þat sodenly was doon and shewed þere.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)3/19 : Schew þerfor meke seruise to þi sistres and deuoutly obeye hem.\na1475 Siege Troy(1) (Hrl 525)193/1259j : Thanne be-gynnyth nowe playe An hundrid mynstrelles in a rewe, Diuverse melodye for to shewe Of trumpis, tabours, and nakeres.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)2.219 : Iacob as be mannys doom fenyyd hym to ben Esau, but in Goddis doom it was no fenyyng of falshed but figure schewid be þe holy gost.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)801 : The rolle for to rede or he rest thry, As with sacrifice to shew & seruice to goddes.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)18196 : Quat er tu..þat sceus [Göt: scheus] sa selcut light?\nc1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)11.159 : Þe sonne som tyme for cloudes May nat shyne ne shewe on shawes on erthe.\na1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)25a/a : Eructo: shewe or belke; Eructuo..ofte of þrote shewe.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)93/14 : A sown of a glad song, which may not be toold by word ne schewid by sown of voice.\n(1440) Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)17 : Norbert..Made a ordre þat schewith now very lith Of good ensaumple to men.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)34/14 : Venus..had pite; and..the bronde that sche helde be hire-self began to take fire and schewe flaume.\n?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)104 : He þat is seek in his stomake shal take iii ciatis of þis decoccon..and þis shal opin þe stomak mowþ as shal well shewe gret bolkyng.\nc1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)605/18 : Promico: to shewe or shyne.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)110/3 : The holy wordis of oure lord, schewid oute be a deuoute mouthe wich is bright and schynyng, makith gostly blynde to se.\nc1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)27a/b : Þe teeþ..schulden helpe to chewe voycis in her beste formes..ffor it is openly knowen þat þilke men þat lacken her teeþ speken sumdel unparfiʒtly.\nc1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)3.368 : Iche man myʒte..Se, be þe sonne þat so briʒte schewed, Þe mone at þe mydday.\nc1475(a1449) Lydg.Horns (LdMisc 683)11 : Charbonclys, rubyes of moost excellence Shewe in dirknesse lyght.\nc1484(a1475) Caritate SSecr.(Tak 38)172/11 : Boyistyng..may conuenyently be done in þe waxeng of þe mone qwan þat noyabyl sterris behold it noʒt, schewyng her bemys directely þer-vppon.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)205b/b : Þe body þerof [smaragdus] is cleere and of merour kynde and scheweþ figures, ymages, and schappes of þinges þat beþ nyʒe þerto.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)97/22 : A myrrour representeþ & schewiþ þe face of a man.\nc1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)144/35 : How schulde I se in a myrrour enye þingis openli and sufficientli, if þilk mirrour schewid not þe same þingis openli and sufficientli?\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)21/23 : Þis zenne him sseaweþ ine uele maneres oþer be dede oþer be speche.\nc1425 Mirror LM&W (Hrl 45)132/1 : Oker scheweþ hym in many maneres; The firste manere is when, [etc.].\nc1450 Okure þrow (Eg 2810)p.230 : Okure þrowe crafte of okerrers Schewis hit on mony maners.\nIn misc. senses: (a) to delegate (to sb. the expression of a general opinion); (b) ~ oute, in literal transl. of L explicare to accomplish, finish off; (c) ?errors for seuen v.(1) [quot.: Lanfranc may belong to sheuen v.(1) 5.(b) & quot.: a1450 to 3.(a)]; (d) ?error for iknouen v.\na1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)863 : Þay tourned alle to Titus, & hym þe tale scheweþ Of þe cite & þe sege.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)3 Esd.8.95 : After þe lawe of þe lord; arijsynge vp, shew out [L explica].\na1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)77/17 : Ech festre & ech cankre þat is woundid is clepid vlcus, but it ne schewiþ not [vr. ne syweth noʒt; L non conuertitur] þat ech vlcus is clepid cankre or festre.\n?a1400 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Rwl C.750)p.113 : Shewide [Hrl 874: I seiʒ anoþere Aungel fleiʒeande amydward þe heuen..And anoþer Aungel folowed hym].\nc1430 Chaucer TC (Cmb Gg.4.27)1.379 : Þus tok he purpos louys craft to schewe [Corp-C: suwe], And seyde he wolde worschepe preuyly ffyrst to hydyn his desyr in mewe.\na1450 Dc.291 Lapid.(Dc 291)p.25 : Þe goulde..þis maner herbe shewith [Newberry: sewiþ; F suit] þe sonne.\na1500 ?Ros Belle Dame (Trin-C R.3.19)227 : Shew [Cmb: though y sue so grete an entirprise, It peireth not your wurship nor your fame].\na1225(?c1175) PMor.(Lamb 487)135 : Lutel he wat wet is pine, and lutel he hit scaweð [rime: blaweð; Trin-C: cnoweð].\na1500(1439) Lydg.Sts.AA (Lnsd 699)1359 : With that woord out of the place he goth, Shewyg [read: shewyng] a cheer lik as he wer wroth.\nNote: New spelling: ppl. (error) shewyg.\na1500?Scrope Ribot First Monks (Lamb 192)45/29 : To be anoyntyd or to be avaunsyd of me thow schal schewyn-befor [L prenunciabis] Azael into kyng of Syrie.\nNote: Ed.: "schewyn-befor 'prophesy'."\nNote: Additional quot.(s) for sense 1.(c): to predict, foretell; foresee (sth.), foretell; ~ aforn (beforen).\nc1430(a1410) Love Mirror (Brsn e.9)10 : Whan sche [St. Cecilia] had so fully al the manere of his [Christ's] lyf ouer gone, sche bygan aʒeyne, and so, with a likynge and swete tast goostly schewynge in that manere the gospel of crist, sche sette and bare it euere in the priuete of her brest.\nNote: Quot. needed for date in sense 9.(a).--per MLL