Middle English Dictionary Entry
different adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | different adj. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Dissimilar, unlike, different.
Associated quotations
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Heb.1.4 : He hath inherited a more different [L differentius], or excellent, name.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)90/6 : To heele boþe þe vlcus & þe festre wiþ medicyns different þat longen to hem boþe.
- a1425(a1400) Paul.Epist.(Corp-C 32)Rom.12.6 : Hafende þerfore giftys dyfferent [L differentes] aftyr þe grace þe whilke is gifen to vs.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)438 : Petir..was heed in a dyuers and different maner fro ech other Apostle.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.235 : So were þei chaunged..Lyke vnto bestes kyndely different.
- c1450 De CMulieribus (Add 10304)391 : Voyce and stature wass lytell different Twyx hirr and hym.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)4.325 : Þer were iij sectes of the Iewes in the Iewery, differente from the commune life of other peple.