Middle English Dictionary Entry
crimināl adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | crimināl adj. Also creminal. |
| Etymology | OF & L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Sinful, criminal, wicked; (b) relating to crime, criminal (as opposed to civil); ~ cause.
Associated quotations
a
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)87 : Ne hauyþ in herte eny pride..ffor hyt ys..heued of synnez criminalez.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.3332 : Sche with a god mortal Dide a synne þat was crimynal.
- (1450) RParl.5.183a : Touchyng mesprisions which be not crymynall, the Kyng..putteth you to his rule and governaunce.
- c1475 Þe tyme approcheþe (Hrl 2251)308 : Theyr cryminal vices withdraw echon.
b
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)3.3253 : Causes off cyuyle & causes cremynall Ther doomys take, wher thei be fals or trewe.
- a1470 Ordin.War Hen.V in RS 55.1 (Lnsd 285)468 : If it be eny other cause criminall, the causer of the resistyng to have the same deth.