Middle English Dictionary Entry
alǒud(e adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | alǒud(e adv. Also oloud(e. |
| Etymology | From on lǒud(e. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) With a loud voice, loudly; (b) with full voice; audibly, aloud; lien ~, to lie outright.
Associated quotations
a
- a1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)1407 : He shrof him al a-loud to þe gyewes.
- c1330 Pennyw.Wit(1) (Auch)103 : Þe marchaunde answerd him aloude, For of his leman he was proude.
- c1390(?c1350) SVrn.Leg.(Vrn)66/290 : Þen al aloud [L alta voce] he gan hit rede, Þat alle men miht him here.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)21.363 : A voys a-loud seyde, 'The lord of myght.'
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)3364 : On..A-lowde crieth, 'the kyng sone is dede.'
- a1425(?c1375) NHom.(3) Leg.(Hrl 4196)120/112 : Þan he cried oloude and prayde.
- a1425 NHom.(3) Pass.(Hrl 4196)105/1032 : Þe iews..Cried and said þus all oloud [Rwl: on lowd].
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)215/23 : Than alowde the kynge of Lybye cryed unto sir Cador.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)239 : Than were the saisnes ascride a-lowde.
b
- c1390 St.Greg.(Vrn)116/905 : Ful sone he dude sweren a loud, Bi foren hem alle, vppon þe bok.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.3848 : Thei spieke aloud, for supposinges Of hem that stoden there aboute.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)3482 : Ȝyf þou were so wundyrly proude Þat þou mysseydyst God al aloude.
- ?a1425 Susan.(Hnt HM 114)343 : Now þow lyest alowd, so help me our lord!
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)2058 : The thinges that I herde there, What aloude, and what in ere.
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)2.1457 : Whan she had seyd these wordys alle allowde..pleynly to hem alle.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)611/23 : She..said alowde, that the kyng and all the knyghtes myght here hit, 'Aryse, syr Percyvale!'
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)620 : He it vnfolded and be-gan to rede a-lowde, that thei myght it wele vndirstonde.