Obs. [f. STY v.1 + -ING1.] The action of ascending; an ascent.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 167. Salomon þe wise … sehȝ þese wunderliche stienge [sc. the three ascents of the Virgin Mary] alse suterliche alse he þis dai were.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter cxix [cxx]. 1. Sang of degres, that is, ioy of thoght in gastly steghynge.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 448. Aftir his steying to heuene. Ibid. (1382), Ps. lxxxiii [lxxxiv]. 6. Steȝingus vp [1388 stiyngis, Vulg. ascensiones] in his herte he disposide.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 473/2. Steyynge, scansio, ascensus.
1493. Dives & Pauper (W. de W., 1496), I. lvi. 97/1. Prayer is a styeng up of a mannes herte to god.
b. concr.
1382. Wyclif, Cant. iii. 10. His pileris he made siluerene,… the steȝing vp [1388 a stiyng, Vulg. ascensum] purpur.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 473/2. Steyle, or steyynge vp, ascensus, scansile.
