Middle English Dictionary Entry
dailī adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | dailī adj. |
| Etymology | From dai ; cp. also OE dæȝlīc. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Daily; constant.
Associated quotations
- (1449) RParl.5.147b : The grete contynuall and daily damages that ther ben don by the Adversaries.
- (c1456) Let.Oxf.in OHS 35336 : The gostely suffrages of oure dayly prayers.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)32/120 : God..Off whom we haue oure dayly food.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)32b : Dayli: cotidie, cotidianus.
- c1480(1462) Let.Edw.IV to James III (Add 48031)144 : Our saide cousin .. shewing therby at large .. good and tendir zele .. to the said peax, not undirstonding ageinward .. like zele on your partye, but rather delaies under the shadow of towardines and daile attemptates to thenfraccions and violacion of the abstinence of werre ...