Middle English Dictionary Entry
enfamined ppl.
Entry Info
| Forms | enfamined ppl. |
| Etymology | OF enfaminé. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Dying of hunger, starving; (b) of birds or beasts of prey: famished, hungry.
Associated quotations
a
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.3641 : And enfamyned, liste þei shulde dye, Þei souȝte a space hem siluen to purueye.
- c1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)2429 : Unnethe is Demophon to londe ywonne, Wayk and ek wery, and his folk forpyned Of werynesse, and also enfamyned.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)2.3468 : Or what is worthi gold..Whan men enfamyned ha[ue] no[u]ther greyn nor bred!
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)13 : They, enfamyned, couthe have no socoure of king Philip.
- c1483(?a1450) OT in Caxton Gold.Leg.(Caxton)50ab : This whete may be kepte in barnes..that it may be made redy ayenst the comyng of the vij scarse yeris..to thende þat the peple be not enfamyned.
b
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.OFools (LdMisc 683)44 : Lyk a iay enfomyned [Nero: enfamynyd] in hys cage, Malapert of cheer and off vysage.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)56.466 : Sone Cam Anothir wilde lyown there, Enfamyned and hungrey not þat he were.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)47 : A kyte a litel enfamined shulde skarsliche be ful sauled ther with.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Cp. enfaminen v., into which this entry should probably be merged.