Middle English Dictionary Entry
disjoint(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | disjoint(e n. Also des-, disyonyt. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A difficulty of circumstance; a dilemma, strait, plight, emergency; stonden in ~, to be in a plight; (b) an outburst or extremity (of anger, grief); distress.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2962 : Ne kepe I noght to seye..who that baar hym best in no disioynt.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Sh.(Manly-Rickert)B.1601 : But sith I se I stonde in this disioynt, I wol answere yow shortly to the poynt.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.5110 : And to conferme þis fro point to point, And þat no þing stood in no disioint..Agemenoun Committed hath of hiȝe discrecioun..auctorite For þe Grekis..for a pes to trete.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)3273 : Rehersing hym..In what disioynte and peril that she stood.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)5.1618 : Come I wole; but yet in swich disjoynte I stonde as now, that what yer or what day That this shal be, that kan I naught apoynte.
- a1456(c1430) Lydg.Mum.Windsor (Trin-C R.3.20)75 : For where as he stoode, in gret desioynt, First a paynyme, by baptyme anoon right was so conuerted, and bekame Crystes knight.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)4312 : In swich dysioynt she stood, allas!
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)13527 : In swych dysioynt they ladde me, Myn Eyen cloos, I myghte nat se.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.Guy (LdMisc 683)28 : Fortune of werre in suych disioynt [vr. disyonyt] tho stood, The peple robbed and spoiled of ther good.
- a1500 Add.Hymnal (Add 34193)476/10 : Now holy gost..lest we fall tyll erroure or disirynte [read: disioynte], Wyth þi karisme profownde vs and enoynte.
b
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.1140 : Whan he had herd þis þing fro poynt to point, He was anoon brouȝt in swyche disioint Of hasty rancour and of sodeyn Ire.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.3656 : Neuer man be-fore No woman sawe falle in swiche distresse, In swiche disioint of dedly hevynes.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)2478 : Ethiocles stod in such disioynt Of hatful Ire, that he wex nye wood.
- c1450 Lover's Mass (Frf 16)75 : Mercy! Mercy! contynuely I crye In gret disioynt, vpon the poynt to deye.