Middle English Dictionary Entry
enfaminen, -ien v.
Entry Info
| Forms | enfaminen, -ien v. Also enfamenen. Ppl. enfamined, enfammed. |
| Etymology | OF enfaminer. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To deprive (someone) of food, or of food and drink; to make (someone) die of hunger; fig. to starve (the soul); (b) to be starving, to die of hunger.
Associated quotations
a
- c1400(?a1300) *KAlex.(LdMisc 622)1231 : Þe folk & þe pouerayle weren enfamyned saun faile.
- c1400 Brut-1333 (Rwl B.171)194/27 : He had enfamenede þe land so þat þere ne lefte nouȝt on but þai come to his mercy.
- a1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)1244 : Þe peple in þe pauyment was pite to byholde, Þat wer enfamy[n]ed for defaute whan hem fode wanted.
- ?c1430(c1400) Wycl.Curates (Corp-C 296)150 : Þes ben euele fadris þat þus cruelly enfamynen here sugetis soulis.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)7.1483 : [The Romans] Stopped ther conduites & ther watris cleer, Enfamyned hem for lakkyng of vitaille.
- 1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)6899 : Purposyng hyr to enfamyne.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)5404 : Þat no vitaille schuld come til toun: To enfamyn hem was þencheson.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)25.291 : Rathere hym Enfamyne there, thanne him to slen In this Manere.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin (Corp-C 80)17391 : Tyl this Cyte Enfamyned & wonne be.
- c1450(c1400) Vices & V.(2) (Hnt HM 147)267/1 : Who-so wole take a cite or a toun or a castel..he mote restreyne and lette þe mete þat schulde come þer-to, and þe watre also, for to enfamyne þe folke wiþ-ynne.
- c1450(c1425) Brut-1419 (Cmb Kk.1.12)360/9 : King Richard..was enfammed vnto þe deth be his keper.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)7.16 (v.1:p.84) : He wolde suffren no creature bryngen hir neither mete ne drynke, ner noon othir comforte, purposyng forto enfamynen hir and so to maken an ende of hir.
b
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)1194 : Faste fayled hem þe fode, enfaminied monie; Þe hote hunger wythinne hert hem wel sarre.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Cp. enfamined ppl., which should probably be merged with this entry.