Middle English Dictionary Entry
ēne adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | ēne adv. |
| Etymology | OE ǣne adv.; cp. OE ān one. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. enes.
1.
(a) On one (and only one) occasion; once, just once; (b) never ene, not even once, never; nought (ne)..ene, not even once; (c) nou (nouthe) ene, immediately, at once, right now.
Associated quotations
a
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)90/8 : Alle heo beoð on Godes sihðe andwearde, na æne, ac æfre.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)33 : Þah þu liuedest of adames frumðe..nalde hit þe þinchen na mare bute al swa þu ene unpriȝedest [read: unwriȝedest] mid þine eȝen.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)1107 : Vor hit bitidde ene swo, Ich am þe bliþur euer mo.
- c1300 SLeg.Lucy (Hrl 2277)29 : A womman..come & tuochede þe lappe of oure louerdes cloþ ene As he wende in grete presse.
- a1350 Prov.Hend.(Hrl 2253)189 : Ah he þat me ene serueþ so, Ant he eft bidde mo, He shal me fynde vnfeyn.
- ?1316 SMChron.(Roy 12.C.12)815 : Come the Deneise hideward Ant conne fihte with Edmound..Ene heo him overcome, Ant he hem eft-sone, So that heo acordeden.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)2.44 : Feyngrek..is to be sowe In Italie ene in this Ianys ende.
b
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)121 : Ne undude he nefre ene his muð mid uuele.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)15 : Ne do he þe neure swa muchelne teone..ne beo þu nefre ene wrað þer fore.
- ?a1300 Thrush & N.(Dgb 86)168 : Boþe of maidnes and of wiue, Soþ ne seist þou ene.
- a1300 Sayings St.Bede (Jes-O 29)340 : Nulleþ heo neuer ene By-reusy ne bi-mene.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)6951 : Heo stap vpe þis furi yre, euerich stape al clene..ne bleincte noȝt ene.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)8949 : Vor me ne miȝte hire neuere ise vnclannesse do ene.
- c1330(?c1300) Spec.Guy (Auch)366 : Þat bush..was euere iliche clene, [Ne] mihtte hit noht be wemmed ene.
- c1375(?c1280) SLeg.Advent,etc.(Eg 1993)284 : Þo scholde vch prest..serue þat weued al þe wike,..ne seon is wif nouȝt ene.
c
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)890 : We biddez furst þat ȝe it graunti nouþe ene.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (Hrl 2277)p.43 : We biddeth furst that ȝe granti ous nou ene.
2.
Phrases: (a) (al) at ene, as at ene, at one (and the same) time, simultaneously; at once, immediately; ?once for all [Pearl 953]; (b) (for) ene and (for) ever, once for all, forever.
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 SLeg.Inf.Chr.(LdMisc 108)1071 : Ake þe oþure alle at ene Wolden sitte on þe sonne beme. ..On and oþur a non up lep To þe sonne bem with cours gret.
- a1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)173 : Þis wydewe..haþ yleyd at ene Al hure goed þat ȝeo hadde.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)2130 : Hii vnderstode þat þis lond was ymad al clene Of god folc þoru maximian & conan as at ene.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)8496 : So þat godes kniȝtes made þo as at ene Ihesu cristes cite of þe deueles limes clene.
- (a1333) Herebert Þe kynges baneres (Add 46919)8 : To wassȝen ous of sunne clene, Water and blod þer ronne at ene.
- c1390(c1350) NHom.(2) PSanct.(Vrn)300/133 : Heo Ron..to þat holy welle, þer to wasshe hire al at ene And fulliche to make hire clene.
- c1390 11 Pains(3) (Vrn)255/163 : Aftur þis he sayz at ene Men and wymmen.
- c1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)953 : Jerusalem..In þat on oure pes watz mad at ene.
- c1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)291 : Þre wordez hatz þou spoken at ene.
- a1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2:Peacock)82 : Theche hem to come & schryue hem clene, And also hosele hem, bothe at ene.
b
- c1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)20462 : [They] þohte Arthur þane king..bi-nimen his cunde and his kine-riche þat were his cun isend for ene and for euere.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)9671 : He grantede ek þat a churche of þe kinges fe In none stede, ene & euere, ne ssolde iȝiue be As to hous of religion wiþoute þe kinges leue.