Middle English Dictionary Entry
dēcrẹ̄en v.
Entry Info
| Forms | dēcrẹ̄en v. Ppl. dēcrẹ̄ed, dēcrẹ̄id, dēcrẹ̄wite. |
| Etymology | From dēcrẹ̄ . |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To decree (sth.), command (that sth. be done, believed, etc.); condemn (sb. to a punishment); (b) to prescribe (an emetic); (c) to decide (to do sth.); (d) to confer, deliberate.
Associated quotations
a
- (1399) RParl.3.424a : Her Commissaries..declared and decreed and adjugged ȝowe for to be deposed and pryved..of the Astate of Kyng.
- c1460 Oseney Reg.18/31 : We decree þat hit be not lawfull to oony manne to troble frowardely þe forsaide monastery.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)351/5 : The iugges decreyd that the deen..scholde put the seyd abbas..in-to possession of the seyd tythys.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)185/39 : By the Same Consaill hit was decrewite and demet that, throght the Synne of the Pepill of the londe, by the Sentence of god, the myschefis of the conquest ham befelle.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)219/33 : It was decreyd and ordeyned..that the same honowre and reuerence schuld be hadde in worschepe..of alle the seyntis.
b
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)156a/a : Ypocras decreede [L decernit] þis vomyt ones in a monthe.
c
- c1425 Found.St.Barth.53/32 : There was a man..hauyng oportunyte to exsecute that he had decreid yn his mynde.
- c1425 Found.St.Barth.55/18 : Yf I haue vnrightwysly gete my money, ȝit sum of that I haue decreid to conuerte yn-to goode werkys.
d
- a1500 Discip.Cler.(Wor F.172)58 : While thei thus decreeden, the kyng cam with his meyne.