Middle English Dictionary Entry
distribūtī̆f adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | distribūtī̆f adj. |
| Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Spending or contributing freely; (b) gram. distributive or individualizing; --?also as noun.
Associated quotations
a
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)85 : Wolde the mightifulle God that every harde covetouse hert were of suche largesse and distributif of here meveable good..to the comon wele.
b
- c1450 Battlefield Gram.(Trin-C O.5.4)105 : A noun distributyf, as 'euerych'.
- c1450 Battlefield Gram.(Trin-C O.5.4)105 : How knoweste the genityf case by my signes? As 'of' after a noun substantyf, a noun partytyf, a distributyf.