Middle English Dictionary Entry
emprisonen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | emprisonen v. Also enpresounen, im-. |
| Etymology | OF emprisoner. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To imprison.
Associated quotations
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)9521 : Muche robberie me dude aboute in euerich toun & bounde men & enprisonede.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)1181 : Enprisone hem her wiþ-inne þy tours.
- (1389) Lond.Gild Ret.in Bk.Lond.E.(PRO C 47/var.)47/76 : Ȝif any of þe forsaide bretherhede be enpresoned falslich by enme.
- (c1422) Hoccl.JWife (Dur-U Cosin V.3.9)119 : Enprisone him, let him not goon at large.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)19/19 : Guytoga..empresound him in þe castell.
- (1433) RParl.4.475b : The Lord..improsoned [read: impresoned] the same servant, and ingyned him so that he was in poynt of Deth.
- (c1437) RParl.4.508b : And yaire bodies emprisonned at the Kinges wille.
- a1500 Discip.Cler.(Wor F.172)17 : So was he taken and imprisoned.
- a1525(?1472) Cov.Leet Bk.384 : Yff eny persone denye to pay any taxe..þat then ye take & imprisonne hym.
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)60/104 : Whan thou wer arested and firste tyme enprisoned.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)89b/a : Ȝif þat quiture be encarcerate oþer emprisounde in þe wounde be cause of enye errour.
Note: New form: ppl. encarcerate.
Note: Modify gloss with addition: "also, in phrase: ben emprisoned, of pus: to be confined (within a wound).
Note: The list of variant spellings in the form section may be incomplete and / or may need revision to accord with standards of later volumes of the MED. Provisional revised form section: Also enprisone, imprisonne; p. empresound, impresoned, (error) improsoned; ppl. emprisonned, emprisounde, enpresoned, imprisoned.--notes per MLL