Middle English Dictionary Entry
dettī adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | dettī adj. Also ditti. |
| Etymology | From dette n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Due, owing; (b) obligatory; (c) indebted.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)6.239 : It is greet lewednesse and wrecchednesse to forgendre what is detty and riȝtful [L debita negligere].
- c1400 *Trev.Higd.(Tbr D.7)91b : Þat ich axe ys detty to me.
- (a1402) Trev.DCur.(Hrl 1900)44/21 : It semeþ no dowte..þat teþinges of byqueestes & of fre ȝjftes is detty & dewe to parische chirches.
b
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)6.225 : Everiche day, among þe detty [vr. dytty] travaylle of service and of psalmes [L inter debitum psalmodiæ], he tauȝhte his disciples.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)179b/a : As a seruaunt of sothenes she [the city of Paris] sheweþ hire self detty to wyse men and vnwyse.