herye

English

Alternative forms

• herry

Etymology

From Middle English herien, heryen, from Old English herian (“to extol, praise, commend, help”), from Proto-Germanic *hazjaną (“to call, praise”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱens- (“to speak in a florid, solemn style, attest, witness”). Cognate with Middle High German haren (“to call, shout”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hazjan, “to praise”), Latin cēnseō (“inspect, appraise, estimate”, verb), Latin cēnsus (“estimation”); see censor, census.

Verb

herye (third-person singular simple present heryeth, present participle herying, simple past and past participle heryed)

1. To praise, to glorify, to honour.
   • 1563, John Foxe, Fox's Book of Martyrs: The Acts and Monuments of the Church, volume 1, published 1851, page 563:

     And Lord God, what herying is it to bilden thee a church of dead stones, and robben thy quicke churches of their bodilich liuelood?

   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, “The Shepheardes Calender: November”, in Marie Loughlin, Sandra Bell, Patricia Brace, editors, The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose, published 2012, page 797:

     Thenot, now nis the time of merimake. / Nor Pan to herye, nor with love to playe.

Related terms

• heryer

Anagrams

• Heyer, heyre

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

herye

1. alternative form of hery (“hairy”)

Etymology 2

Verb

herye

1. alternative form of eren (“to plough”)

Etymology 3

Verb

herye

1. alternative form of herien (“to commend”)