Middle English Dictionary Entry
crẹ̄de n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | crẹ̄de n.(2) |
| Etymology | OE crēda; ult. L. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A confession of faith, a creed; esp., the Apostles' Creed; commune ~, the Apostles' Creed; ~ of Attanasi, the Athanasian Creed; ~ of the chirche, messe ~, the longer form of the Nicene Creed (or Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed); (b) in fig. and proverbial expressions: as long as a man mai sei two credes; bi crois and bi ~; siker as ~; connen more than the ~, to know more than the fundamentals, be an expert; kennen ~, teach (sb. his) Creed, teach (sb.) a lesson, punish; out of the ~, faithless, unprincipled; singen a ~, recite the Creed; fig. make a (nagging or quarrelsome) speech.
Associated quotations
a
- a1225 Lamb.Hom.Creed (Lamb 487)77 : We habbeð bigunnen ou to seggen on englisch hwat bi-qu[e]þ þe crede.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.Creed (Trin-C B.14.52)17 : Alle cunne ower crede, þaste ich wene, þeih ge alle nuten hwat hit biqueðe.
- a1250 Ancr.(Nero A.14)8/18,32 : Þus doþ..iðe crede et tis word 'natus ex maria uirgine'..cusceð þe eorðe..et te messe crede et tisse worde 'exmaria uirgine et homo factus est'.
- c1300 SLeg.Dunstan (LdMisc 108)23 : Huy leten hit do to Glastingburi..to techen him his bileue al-so, his pater noster and crede.
- a1325(?a1300) Interl.CG (Add 23986)72 : Cani do non oyir dede Bot my pater noster and my crede.
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)133/94 : Þe mytte hys fader of oure crede, Wysdom þe sone.
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)7.82 : He schal haue my soule..Til I come to myn A-Countes as my Crede me telleþ.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.7119 : I preie Unto mi god and somwhat seie Of Paternoster or of Crede [rime: spede].
- a1400(?c1300) LFMass Bk.(Roy 17.B.17)40/423 : Short prayere shulde be with-outen drede, and þer-with pater-noster & þo crede.
- ?a1425(a1415) Wycl.Lantern (Hrl 2324)31/3 : Þe xii sterres..ben xii articlis of þe comune crede.
- ?a1425(a1415) Wycl.Lantern (Hrl 2324)75/14 : Þis techeþ also þe comune crede of þe xii apostlis.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)60b/a : Simbolum: a crede & an ale Scot.
- (1440) *Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)2293 : With a Pater Noster and eke a crede.
- ?a1450(?c1400) Wycl.LFCatech.(Lamb 408)225-8 : Ther be þre credys in þe chirche: Crede of þe apostelys, and Crede of þe chyrche, and Crede of attanasy..But of þe fyrste Crede schulde cristyn men speke, For yt is more comyn and more schortyr þan eny oþer.
- c1450 Spec.Chr.(2) (Hrl 6580)10/2 : Hit es seyde in the Crede that Athanasie made: Quicumque vult.
- c1450 Spec.Chr.(2) (Hrl 6580)12/3 : The comyn crede of the feyth es that the apostil maden.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)58/7 : Þe thryd day wryte on þe thrydde leef 'Johannes predicat' and late þe seke ete it, and seye lll pater nostris, lll aues, and lll credis.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)29b : Crede: Simbolum.
- c1600(?c1395) PPl.Creed (Trin-C R.3.15)36 : Of what myddelerde man myȝte y best lerne My Crede?
b
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)3.478 : For er I sunge such a crede, I hadde levere to be lewed.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.2912 : And also siker as the crede, Thei make of that thei knowen fals.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.1047 : Bileueth this as siker as youre crede [rime: forbede].
- a1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)27/4 : Calays men, now mai ȝe care..Sir Edward sall ken ȝow ȝowre crede.
- a1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)32/38 : Iohn of Coupland..Talked to Dauid and kend him his crede.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)5.89 : The sone of Tideus took hede, As he that koude more than the crede In swich a craft.
- c1440(a1400) Awntyrs Arth.(Thrn)97 : Thir knyghtis are vn-curtayse, by crose and by crede.
- a1450(1400) Eche man be war (Dgb 102)126 : False men..Arn heretikes, and out of the Crede.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)107 : Þenne let þe pacient..holde in his mowþ as longe as a man may sey ij Credys.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1475(c1441) Lament Duch.Glo.(Cmb Hh.4.12)54 : To gef credence to any clerk…so did I and…I wrowght agayne all course of kynd And lost my crede for cruelte.
Note: New phrase
Note: Belongs to sense (b).
Note: Gloss: lesen ~, to lose the ability or desire to practice (one's) religion, become unable to follow (one's) faith.--notes per MLL