Middle English Dictionary Entry
Almaǧeste n.
Entry Info
| Forms | Almaǧeste n. |
| Etymology | ML, from Ar. (ultim. Gr. magístē greatest). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The name given to the great astronomical treatise of Ptolemy; also applied to other astron. works.
Associated quotations
- (c1386) Almanac 1386 [OD col.]8 : To knowe in what syne the Mone es ilk Day, after þat astronomyer þat es called Ptholome in þe Boke of Almagesti.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.27 : Tholomeus..made many bookes, þat beeþ Almagestus [Higd.(2): almageste; L Almagestam], perspectiva [etc.].
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3208 : His Almageste and bokes..His astrelabye..His augrym stones layen..On shelues couched at his beddes heed.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.739 : In Almageste it telleth this: The Mones cercle so lowe is [etc.].
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.325 : The wise astrologen daun Protholome That seith this prouerbe in his Almageste [rime: hyeste].
- a1475(1450) Scrope DSP (Bod 943)224/11 : Tholomee..maade..oon [book]..callid Almagestee, þe whiche ys of astrologie [Cmb Gg: astronomye].
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)66 : Galiene..mad..Almagest..Summe sey that Ptolome, Kyng of Egipt, mad this Almagest.