Middle English Dictionary Entry
deintẹ̄̆vǒus adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | deintẹ̄̆vǒus adj. Also dentivous & deinteous, deintous. |
| Etymology | From deintẹ̄ n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Delightful, elegant, beautiful; (b) luxurious; (c) delicious, epicurean.
Associated quotations
a
- c1390 Vrn.Mir.Virg.(Vrn)27 : Þat song was holden deynteous.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)4196 : Itt [a sword] was my derlynge daynteuous.
- c1440 Chaucer CT.Th.(Eg 2726)B.1901 : Deintous [Heng: Now shul we heere Som deyntee thyng].
- a1450 Spaldyng Katereyn þe curteys (BodR 22)p.541 : A dentywos dowf made þe to dewre.
- c1450 In a noon (Lamb 853)8 : I sente my faukun, y leet him flee; It was to me a deinteuose siȝt.
b
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.1714 : Al ful of ioye..is the paleys, And ful of instrumentz and of vitaille The mooste deynteuous of al Ytaille.
- c1400 PPl.C (Vsp B.16)16.303 : [And Dives in] dentyuous lyuynge.
c
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)3.169 : He come to þe deynteuous [vr. dentuos] mete and drynke [L epulas].
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl.(Manly-Rickert)E.265 : Ther maystow seen of deynteuous [vr. daynteuos] vitaille.
- c1410 Mirror Sinners(1) (UC 97)439 : Thenk of..how vyl al thyng is whan it passeth fro thee, be it neuer so deynteuous whan thow receyuest it.