Middle English Dictionary Entry
ēche adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | ēche adj. Also ache. |
| Etymology | OE ēce, ǣce adj. & adv. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Eternal, perpetual, everlasting; (b) in eche, in eternity, eternally.
Associated quotations
a
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.656 : Hi willen beon del nimende on þa ece lif.
- a1150(c1125) Vsp.D.Hom.Fest.Virg.(Vsp D.14)24/98 : Þæt ece lif.
- (1155) Chart.Hen.II in Hall EME (Hrl Charter 3.B.49)12/15 : To echere alisendnessee.
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)26/27 : Þin sawle sceal to ece reste bicumen.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)76/9,24 : Heo þa ecan murhðe moten habben mid Gode..On ece wuldre a to weorulde.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)82/20 : Æfre þurhwuniende on ece worlde.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)96/3 : Mid his ece Fæder.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)102/18 : Senden on ece lure.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)114/24 : On ece wite.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)126/23,27 : On ece yrmþe..þær heo þrowiæð on ecere seoreȝe.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)128/22 : Þær is ece eadiȝnesse.
- c1225 Body & S.(2) (Wor F.174)7/48 : In þet eche fur.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)1400-1 : Till eche wa, forrþi þatt teȝȝ Forrwurrpenn eche blisse.
- a1225(OE) Vsp.A.Hom.Init.Creat.(Vsp A.22)221 : Befallen on þat ece fer.
- a1225(OE) Vsp.A.Hom.Init.Creat.(Vsp A.22)223 : Se man is ece on ane dele, þat his an þer sawle. Se lichame is deadlic.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)143 : Ine eche pine.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)18/17 : To eche wunnen.
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)64/692 : Wið eche brune..in helle.
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)7/8 : Eche mede þat schal cume þrefter.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)300 : Nis na þing euening ne eche wið godd.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)1624 : Crist þet is king of þet eche kinedom.
- a1250 Creed (Nero A.14)217 : I bileue on ðe holi goste..eche lif efter deað.amen.
- a1250 Creed (Blick 6864)p.138 : Ich geleue on..flasches arisþe & þat eche lif. amen.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)1279 : Ah eauere euh þing þat eche nis Agon schal & al þis worldes blis.
- ?c1250 PMor.(Eg 613(1))360 : God one scal beo eche lif and blisse and eche [Trin-C: ache ] reste.
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)363/32 : For þi name is i-write in eche boke of liue.
b
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)29/308 : Þu were ant art ant schalt beon in eche.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)298 : Ah he, þurh his milce..makeð ham þet ha beoð in eche buten ende.
- c1225 St.Juliana (Roy 17.A.27)2/8 : Icoren of crist in to þe eche of heouene.