† ˈsenyie Sc. Obs.
Forms: 5 senȝhe, 6 senȝe, sanȝe, seinȝie, seinze, seinye, 6–7 senȝie, senzie, 8 senyie, (9 senzie).
[App. an irregular alteration of sene n.3, possibly due to association with senyie sign: see senye.]
A deliberative meeting of clergy; a synod.
| c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. i. 53 Þis pape of Rome..Gert a senȝhe solempne be seyn. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xiv. 79 Off Sathanis senȝie syne sic ane vnsall menȝie. 1524 Aberdeen Reg. (1844) I. 107 Thai war informit that my lord of Aberdeen was nocht to cum afor the sanze. 1535 Lyndesay Satyre 1967 Sir, I socht law thair..Bot I culd get nane at Sessioun nor Seinȝe. a 1572 Knox Hist. Reform. Wks. (1846) I. 172 After the Pasche he came to Edinburgh, to hold the seinze, (as the Papistes terme thare unhappy assemblie of Baallis schaven sorte). |
| 1683 G. Martine Reliq. Divi Andreae (1797) 40 And after the reformation, I find they met in the *senzie chamber. |
| 1552 Aberdeen Reg. (1844) I. 280 That..all sic sumpteous banketing be laid doun aluterlie except thre sobir and honest, viz., upoun the *senze day [etc.]. a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 226 All maner of man havand entres to compeir vpone the seinzie day. |
| 1819 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 97 And terrour garr'd them loup pell-mell Frae *senzie-house, kirk, court and cell. |
| 1596 J. Melvill Diary (Wodrow Soc.) 330 In the *Seinzie ouk efter Pace. |