Obs. rare. In 5 quynsine, -syn(n)e, 6 -zysne. [Alteration of prec.]
1. = QUINZIÈME 1.
1502. Arnolde, Chron., 179. The quynzysne by your saide commons afore this tyme so often graunted.
2. The fifteenth (= fourteenth) day after a specified day; spec. = QUINZIÈME 2.
c. 1450. Merlin, 62. Thus suffred Merlyn to the quynsyne of Pentecoste. Ibid., 65. That ye somowne a grete courte … and that ye make hem all to wite that it shall holde to the quynsine, and that eche come araide to a-bide xv dayes.
