Forms: 4–6 iorn-, 4–7 iourn-; 4–7 -ey, -ay, 5–6 -ie; 7–8 journy, 7– journey. [a. AF. journey-er, OF. jo(u)rnoyer, -ier, -éer to travel, to put off (a person), etc., f. journee, jornee JOURNEY sb.]
I. 1. intr. To make or proceed on a journey; to travel.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 14071. He iorneyed þen fro land to land.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 2249. A gentilman full ioyles þen iornays hym after.
c. 1470. Golagros & Gaw., 230. Thus iournait gentilly thyr cheualrouse knichtis.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, VIII. 976. Quhen Wallace thus throw Ȝorkschyr jowrnat was.
1539. Bible (Great), Acts ix. 3. And when he iorneyed … he was come nye to Damasco.
1667. Milton, P. L., IV. 173. Satan had journied on, pensive and slow.
1813. Coleridge, Remorse, II. ii. 77. Think’st thou I journied hither To sport with thee?
1894. J. T. Fowler, Adamnan, Introd. 54. He … journeyed south and settled at Clonmacnoise.
fig. 1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 251 b. Ye heuenly Ierusalem to the whiche we iourney.
a. 1568. Ascham, Scholem., II. (Arb.), 129. I would haue a good student passe and iorney through all authors.
† b. To travel by ordinary daily stages: cf. JOURNEY sb. 2 c. Obs.
1756. Mrs. Calderwood, Jrnl. (1884), 4. Finding that journying was too little exercise, we took post horses in our own chaise at Belfoord.
† c. To journey it: to make the journey. Obs.
c. 1680. W. Mountagu, in Buccleuch MSS., Montagu Ho. (Hist. MSS. Comm.), I. 333. After that time it will be too late to journey it.
2. trans. To travel, traverse. ? Obs.
1531. Elyot, Gov., I. xi. Realmes, cities, sees, ryuers, and mountaynes, that … can nat be iournaide and pursued.
1720. Gay, Poems (1745), II. 151. When … the pale moon had journey’d half the skies.
1808. Scott, Marm., VI. vi. In a palmer’s weeds arrayed … I journeyed many a land.
† 3. To take (a horse) through a journey; to ride or drive. Obs.
1590. Marlowe, 2nd Pt. Tamburl., III. v. You shall have bits, And harness’d like my horses, draw my coach…. I shall have occasion shortly to journey you.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 318. It [the Pains] breedeth in the pasterns for lack of clean keeping and good rubbing after the Horse hath been journyed.
† 4. intr. To engage in a battle. Obs.
c. 1475. Rauf Coilȝear, 485. Haue he grace to the gre in ilk Iornaying.
5. trans. (Royal Mint.) To weigh or count coins into ‘journeys’: see JOURNEY sb. 9 a.
II. † 6. Sc. trans. To remand (a person) for justice, or put off (a matter in litigation) to another day; to adjourn. Cf. JORN v. Obs.
1478. Acta Audit. (1839). 75/2. Þai war lauchfully Journait to the ferd court before hir bailȝe.
1493. Acta Dom. Conc. (1839), 302/1. James lord of abernethy … protestit It sulde turne him to na preiudice quhill he wer ordourly Journayit.
1609. Skene, Reg. Maj., 106. Quhatsomever parte be journeyed in quhatsomeuer Court, and the Baillie of that Court assignes ane certaine day and steid to them, for to receaue fulfilling of judgement, or dome be them asked.
Hence Journeyed ppl. a., travelled; Journeying ppl. a.
1553. T. Wilson, Rhet. (1580), 164. Some far iourneyed gentleman at their retourne home … will ponder their talke with oversea langage.
1739. G. Ogle, Gualtherus & Griselda, 21.
| A Fairer, not the journeying Sun surveys, | |
| Or with his rising, or his falling Rays. |
1847. Emerson, Poems, Sphinx, 29. The journeying atoms … Firmly draw, firmly drive, By their animate poles.
