[f. SOLACE v.] The action of the verb in various senses; † the fact of taking enjoyment or recreation.
13[?]. K. Alis., 6746 (W.). Now rideth Alisaunder,… with muche syngyng, In gret delit and solasyng.
1382. Wyclif, 1 Cor. xiv. 3. He … spekith to men, to edificacioun,… and comfortynge, or solasynge.
1540–1. Elyot, Image Gov. (1549), 81. In this solacyng he hunted the harte.
c. 1560. A. Scott, Poems (S.T.S.), xviii. 43. Adew,… My mirth and sollesing Of erdly gloir.
1631. N. Hunt (title), New Recreations, or The Mindes release and solacing.
1683. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., Printing, 357. The manner of Solacing, thus.
