queyntisen

• queintisen, queyntise
• coyntyse (Surrey)

From queyntise (“skill, refinement”) +‎ -en (infinitive suffix).

• IPA^(key): /kwæi̯nˈtiːzən/, /kwɛnˈtiːzən/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkwæi̯ntizən/, /ˈkwɛntizən/ (with stress shift)
• IPA^(key): /k(w)ui̯nˈtiːzən/, /ˈk(w)ui̯ntizən/ (mostly Southern or West Midland)

queyntisen (third-person singular simple present queyntiseth, present participle queyntisende, queyntisynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle queyntised)

1. (transitive, uncommon) To dress up; to adorn with fine clothing.
   • a. 1333, “Poem 16: Quis est iste qui uenit de Edom?; Fol. 210r”, in William Herebert, transl., Opera (British Library MS. Add. 46919)‎^[1], Hereford; republished as The Works of William Herebert, OFM (Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse), [Ann Arbor]: University of Michigan, a. 2018:

     What ys he, þys lordling, þat cometh vrom þe vyht, / Wyth blodrede wede so grysliche ydyht, / So vayre ycoyntised, so semlich in syht, / So styflyche ȝóngeþ, so douhti a knyht?

     Who is he, this noble who comes from the battle / with blood-red clothes so grimly coloured, / so finely adorned, so seemly in sight; / walking so boldly, so doughty a knight?

• “queintīsen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.