Middle English Dictionary Entry
alarm(e interj. & n.
Entry Info
| Forms | alarm(e interj. & n. Also alarom. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To arms!; (b) a call to arms; ~ belle; (c) a state of alarm.
Associated quotations
a
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)20.91 : 'Al-arme! alarme!' quod þat lorde.
b
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)1207 : Loude alarom upon launde lulted watz þenne.
- c1453(c1437) Brut-1436 (Hrl 53)574/17 : Sir Iohn Radcliff sent word..to rynge out the larom bell..And so þer was a grete Alarom, & saudioures were onon in thaire harneys.
c
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)1129 : O woful wight, ful careful thin alarm is! Honger within, and enmytee abowte.