Middle English Dictionary Entry
derī̆vāten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | derī̆vāten v. Ppl. derivāt. |
| Etymology | From L ppl. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To drain off or convey (a fluid); drain (a boil); (b) to spring (from a place); (c) ben derivat, to be derived (from) or originate (in sth.).
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)23a/a : Oþerwise for soþ is a grete aposteme cured & oþer wise a litel. Oþerwise a deriuate beyng in makyng & oþerwise a congest & maked.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)37b/a : Reume is more deriuate in obtalmia fro þe heued þan in apostemez of oþer membrez.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)62a/b : Þe first..is þat þe flewing materie in auoiding be deriuate.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)114a/b : Cold coarteþ..& deriuateþ sich materiez to þe skyn.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)13b/a : Þe neruez bene deriuate fro þe nucha of þe necke.
c
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)2.279 : A generalle name of ydoles is deriuate of the name of hym, after diuersite of speches.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)182 : Of þe erth & of þe cley we haue owur propagacyon; By þe prouydens of Gode þus be we deryvatt.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500 ?Scrope Ribot First Monks (Lamb 192)39/29 : For the wych thyng the forseyd pryncys of monkys in the heylsum doctryn of the lyf of a monk procedyd and weryn deryvat as partyculer reverys of Helye, a fyrst and vnyversel welle and spryng of alle reverys.
- a1500 ?Scrope Ribot First Monks (Lamb 192)100/9 : Thys relygion was fowndyd and [s]et fro the begynnynge in the seyde mownt of Carmell..and fro that place it was deryuat and extendyd into other partees of the world.
Note: Postdates sense (c).
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500 ?Scrope Ribot First Monks (Lamb 192)102/35 : Yt is not provyd ne approbatt be the newe custum and vse but be old, that any relygion be intytelatt ther wher fyrst was gunnyn and fowndyn and fyrst obseruyd, and of the whiche yt is dyriuatt [L diriuata] into othere partyes of the world.
Note: ?Sense (a). Cf. DMLBS derivare sense 1c. 'to flow'.
Note: Modify gloss of sense (a) or ?New sense.