v. Obs. Also 3–4 cumse, 4 komse. [A shortened by-form of COMMENCE, starting from a form accented co·mmence: cf. commandment.]
a. 1225. Juliana, init. (Royal MS.). Her cumseð þe uie of seinte iuliane.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 424. Þe kouherde 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. Ibid. (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 † Comsing vbl. sb., 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. Ibid. (1393), C. XII. 95. All kyne konnynges and comsynges of Dowel.
