† comse, v. Obs.
Also 3–4 cumse, 4 komse.
[A shortened by-form of commence, starting from a form accented ˈcommence: cf. commandment.]
| a 1225 Juliana init. (Royal MS.), Her cumseð þe uie of seinte iuliane. c 1350 Will. Palerne 424 Þe kouhered for kare cumsed to sorwe. Ibid. 1430 Vpon here knes þei komsed him grete. 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. i. 128 Bi what craft in my corps hit [Truth] cumseth. Ibid. v. 23 How Conscience with a Cross Comsede to preche. 1399 ― Rich. Redeles iv. 35 Comliche a clerk than comsid the wordis. |
(Comse in R. Copland Guydon's Chirurg., 1541, E ij b, is an error for compose.)
Hence † ˈcomsing vbl. n., commencing.
| c 1325 Orfeo 57 In the comessing of May. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 213 Deyinge..vnknitteth al kare & comsynge is of reste. 1393 ibid. C. xii. 95 All kyne konnynges and comsynges of Dowel. |