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(Resoning,) Resonyng, Ressoning, vbl. n. Also: ressone-, ressoun-, reas(s)o(u)n(e)- and -yn, -ynge. [ME and e.m.E. resoninge (Chaucer), -yng(e, reasoning (1552); Reso(u)n v.1]
1. The activity or art of argument or debate, discussion or negotiation. Also, an instance of this, a debate, discussion, etc. b. The arguments themselves, collectively.(1) a1500 Henr. Fab. 2015.
He is ane fule …, That with his maister fallis in ressoning 1554–5 Edinb. B. Rec. II 296.
Ressonyng 1562-3 Winȝet I 11/3.
We being of smal learning … hes lang abydit for ressoning of … theologis … tyl ane godly reformation 1565 Reg. Privy C. I 340. 1581 Edinb. B. Rec. IV 206.
Efter lang ressoning with Hew Broun 1598 Conv. Burghs II 39.
Efter lang ressoneing vpoun the qualyficatioun of dyuerssis … merchandis [etc.] 1600 Ib. 73.
Ressoneing(b) 1553 Reg. Privy C. I 140.
Efter lang reasoning with matour deliberatioun a1561 Q. Kennedy Breif Tract. (ed.) 141/15.
Quhilk all Christiane man auch to beleue without reasonynge quhow sik thinges may be 1570 Leslie 128. 1598 James VI Basil. Doron 183/1.
Reassoning 1600-1610 Melvill 526.
Reasouneing(2) 1549 Lamb Resonyng 1/1.
Ane Resonyng of ane Scottis and Inglis merchand betuix Rowand and Lionis &c. 1559 Misc. Wodrow Soc. 266.
The day of our ressoning 1579 Conv. Burghs I 82.
The commissioneris … continewis the resonyng vpoun the placing of thair estaipill in Flanderis c1650 Spalding II 292 marg.
Ressoning betuixt Hammiltoun and Traquhair 1600-1610 Melvill 56.
He moderat the reasoning, [and] gatherit upe the conclusionesb. a1561 Q. Kennedy Breif Tract. (ed.) 112/17.
Ve sal breifly collect resonyng in twa hedis Id. Compendious Ressonyng (ed.) 148.
Ane Compendious Ressonyng 1562-3 Winȝet I 56/17.
A ressoning anentis the … haly sacrifice of the mes
2. The process of deduction. 1579 Atholl Mun. I No. 90.
And fand be the ressoning of Doctour Prestoun … that the said erll was poysoned 1587 Acts III 460/2.
The haill accusatioun, ressoning [etc.] … salbe allegit [etc.] … in presence of the pairtie accusit
3. The persuasion or satisfaction of a person's reason or intellect by rational means. 1490 Irland Mir. II 53/24.
And this is to the gret honour of God and of his justice and to the contentacioun and ressounyn of all creatur intellectuale
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