Obs. Forms: α. 4 iuise, iuwise, -yse, 4–5 iuyse, iewise, -yse, 5 iewesse, iuwesse, iwyse. β. 4 iuis, iuwys, iewis, 5 iewys, iewes. [a. OF. juise, by suffix-exchange for juice, ad. L. jūdicium judgment; a later and further analogically altered OF. form was juis. (See -ISE, and Schwan, Gramm. Altfranz. (1893), § 72. 1, and Anm. 2.)] Judgment, doom; a judicial sentence, or its execution; penalty.
α. [1292. Britton, I. xx. § 1. Quels del counte cleyment … juyse de pillori ou de tumberel.]
1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 7795. Satan comaundede for hys seruyse He shulde be put to hys Iuwyse.
c. 1350. Usages Winchester, in Eng. Gilds, 355. Whanne þe ferþyng-lof is in defawte of wyȝte ouer þre shyllynges, þe bakere shal bere þe juwyse of þe town.
1390. Gower, Conf., I. 38. Every man schal thanne arise To Joie or elles to Juise.
c. 1425. St. Christina, viii. in Anglia, VIII. 122/41. Whelis in þe whiche þeues were wonte to haue her iewesse.
c. 1460. Sir R. Ros, La Belle Dame sans Merci, 622. And be nat deed, ne put to no Iuyse.
[1626. Cockeram (ed. 2), Iewise,… also reward by reuenge.]
β. 1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 6777. Noȝt for þy þe leste of þys, Myȝt brynge a man to iuwys.
a. 1340. Hampole, Pr. Consc., 6106. Þe day of iugements and of Iuwys.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., C. 224. Þenne nas … counsel non oþer, Bot Ionas in-to his Iuis Iugge bylyue.
1399. Langl., Rich. Redeles, III. 341. Þer nas … ne Iuge, ne Iustice þat Iewis durste hem deme.
1480. Caxton, Chron. Eng., cxcviii. Ye shull be honged by reson, but the kyng hath foryeue you that Iewes.
b. transf. The instrument of penalty; the gibbet, the cross.
c. 1320. R. Brunne, Medit., 577. For cryste bereþ hys owne Iuwyse, Y fynde nat þat þe þeues ded þe same wyse.
[1623. Cockeram, Iewise, a gallowes or Gibbet.]
