Middle English Dictionary Entry
drēmer n.
Entry Info
| Forms | drēmer n. |
| Etymology | From drẹ̄men v.(2). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) One who has visions in his sleep, a dreamer; (b) one who indulges in idle speculations.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)4111 : Lo, quar þe dremer now es cummen!
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Gen.37.19 : Loo, the dremer [L somniator] cometh!
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Deut.13.3 : If..eny man seith hym silf to haue seen a sweuen..thow shalt not here the wordis of this prophete and dremer.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Jer.27.9 : Therfor nyle ȝe here ȝoure profetis and false dyuynouris and dremeris and dyuyneris [etc.].
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)131 : Dremare: Sompniator.
- c1483(?a1450) OT in Caxton Gold.Leg.(Caxton)49a/a : Loo see the dremer cometh! Come and lete vs slee hym.
b
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.375 : Errour in sich wittis makiþ many dremeris to faile, for þei taken noon hede to good liif, but to fals opynyouns here.
- ?c1430(c1383) Wycl.Leaven Pharisees (Corp-C 296)10 : Þat god is fals and a fole, and þes..newe dremeris ben trewe and witti.