vbl. sb. Obs. [f. prec. + -ING1.] Illumination, lighting up; ? effulgence. (See quot.)
1398. Trevisa, Barth De P. R., VIII. xlii. [Lumen differt a luce, sicut species a genere] Byschinynge and lyȝt ben diuerse, as species and gendir, for euery bischinynge is lyȝte, but not aȝenwarde euery lyȝte is bischinynge. Ibid., VIII. xxviii. 340. One bishynynge comyth nat in to the substaunce of a nother though it seme to the syghte that they ben joyned.
