Middle English Dictionary Entry
deintẹ̄th adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | deintẹ̄th adj. Also denteht. |
| Etymology | From noun. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Excellent, elegant, beautiful, fine; (b) pleasing, delightful; (c) of food or drink: delicious, epicurean; (d) as a surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)245b/a : The muste þerof is reed and deynteth, and dyeth as blood.
- c1450 Treat.Fish.(Yale 171)22 : The trowyt ys a deyntet fyche & a fre bytyng.
- a1475 Lydg.CB (Cmb Hh.4.12)360 : Deynteth [Lnsd: As deynte as a snyte].
b
- c1415 Chaucer CT.Cl.(Lnsd 851)E.1112 : It is deynteþ [ChU: denteyth] for to see þe chiere Be-twexe hem tuo.
- c1415 Chaucer CT.Th.(Lnsd 851)B.1901 : Shal we here Summe deynteþ þinge.
c
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)3295 : Man on molde halt welthe & wele..denteth drynke at mete & mele.
- c1450(c1400) Vices & V.(2) (Hnt HM 147)204/26 : Riche men..maken so outraiousliche so deyntif metes for bost and auaunt of þe world.
- c1450 Chaucer CT.Cl.(ChU 564)E.265 : Denteht [Heng: Ther maystow seen of deynteuous vitaille].
- c1450 Chaucer CT.Sq. (ChU 564)F.70 : Deynteþ [Heng: Som mete..is ful deyntee holde].
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)85/13 : He cherysched his body to moch wyth daynteþ metys and drynkes.
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Add 9066)374 : He myght not take of the noble and deynteth metes.
d
- (1379) in Rec.B.Nottingham 1202 : Agnes Deynteth.