Middle English Dictionary Entry
dēden v.
Entry Info
| Forms | dēden v. Ppl. deaded, i)deded. |
| Etymology | OE dēadian die & WS dȳdan (A *dēdan) kill. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To kill (sth.); also fig.; (b) to die; (c) to deaden (sth.), stupefy; (d) to become dull or insensible.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 25.37 : Deadid [vrr. dedid, deadyd; Corp-O: the herte of hym with yn forth is deed, and he is maad as a stoone].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)30a/b : If þe herte is I-deded, of þe whiche þe oþir parties haueþ lif, nedis þat oþer partie dieþ.
- a1400 Cursor (Frf 14)13070 : Herodias couet Iohn to dede.
- ?c1400 Chaucer Bo.(Add 10340)4.4.3623 : Þou accordest to leten no tourment to þe soules aftir þat þe body is dedid by þe deþe.
b
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.752 : The seed of thorn in hit wol dede and dote [L putrefiant].
- a1450 7 Sages(3) (Cmb Dd.1.17)623 : They lette the ȝonge branche sprede, And the holde tre bygan to dede.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)235b/a : Mandragora..keliþ and somdel dedeþ and makeþ slepe stronglyche.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)242a/b : Opium..makeþ hem slepe..for it is swythe stoppyng and kelynge and dedynge.
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)27 : And this woman that is woofull for the dethe of Hector is vndirstonde by worthines and valure, when it is dull and deded in knyghthode.
d
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)552 : For so astonyed and asweved Was every vertu in my heved, What with his sours and with my drede, That al my felynge gan to dede.