Contested Etymologies in the Dictionary of the Rev W W Skeat
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CROUCH, To. "A variant of or derivative from M. E. Croken, to bend. " Skeat. This would no doubt offer a satisfactory explanation of the word if there were not stronger probabilities in another direction. Crouch was formerly used for the sign of the cross. The cnttched friars were those who wore the badge of the cross. The Palmer in " Piers Plowman " had " many a cruche on his cloke " (B. V. 529). To crouch, to bless with the sign of the cross. " And said his orisons as is usage, And cmtched he...m, and bade God shuld hem bless. " Chaucer, Merchant's Tale. Now in Italian, far croce, star colle braccia in croce (to make a crouch), is to cross the arms on the breast (often joined with bowing and kneeling) as an attitude of reverence. La CUDDLE. 71 Crusca. Hence we must explain to crouch, of the same sig- nification. " I croutche, I make humble reverence. Je me humilie. It is a sporte to see him croutche 33\& knele : cest ung passeternps que de le veoyr se humilier et se ageriouyl- lier. " The term seems then to have passed on to designate the mere bodily attitude.
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