Middle English Dictionary Entry
cǒuntremaunden v.
Entry Info
| Forms | cǒuntremaunden v. Also -manden. |
| Etymology | AF; CF contremander. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To rescind (an order, a sentence); (b) to give (sb.) an order which has the effect of rescinding a previous order; (c) to recall (sb.), command (sb.) to return or remain.
Associated quotations
a
- c1430 Allas for thought (Cmb Gg.4.27)360 : She wele me nat comaunde, Nor hyre centence countyrmaunde.
- a1500 Rule Serve Ld.(Add 37969)16/6 : Þe marshall shall haue his commondmentes fullfillid in euery office of þe house..to it be contermaundid, restrayned, or moderd by þe lord.
b
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.5025 : Priamus..To worþi Hector repeired is ageyn, Hym contermaundynge þat he ne shold gon Þilke day to fiȝt ageyn her foon.
- c1453(c1437) Brut-1436 (Hrl 53)574/28 : Þei were contirmaundit be þe Kyng..to go thider.
- (1456) Paston3.76 : This day was my Lord Devenshire at Westminstre, and shuld have apperid, but he was countermaundid.
c
- ?1435 Lond.Chron.Jul.(Jul B.2)40 : Yiff he wolde..goo to hampton, as thouh he shulde goo oute off the Rewme, he wolde yitt ffor the Quenys prayer countermande him ayen.
- (1464) Paston4.107 : Alle the jentylmen of thys contre that went uppe to the Kyng ar contrmaundyd, and ar com hom ageyn.
- (1474) in Rymer's Foedera (1709-10)11.818 : If it happen or fortune the said Richard to dispose him to Returne into England, and afterwards be Countermaunded by the King..than the same Richard..shall Serve the King to the ende of the sayd Terme.