Middle English Dictionary Entry
enterchaunǧen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | enterchaunǧen v. |
| Etymology | OF entrechangier. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To exchange (two things); (b) to reciprocate; to share (something), to enjoy mutually or in common; (c) to interchange (opposites), to transpose.
Associated quotations
a
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)3.1368 : They spake of sondry thynges..And pleyinge entrechaungeden hire rynges.
- (1427) Proc.Privy C.3.263 : v hostages..þe names of whech persones so to be enterchanged.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)305 : Then was Vmfrey erle of Herford..enterchaungid for kyng Robertes wife.
b
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)4.1043 : Though the cause of soth of this Comth of his sittyng, yet necessite Is entrechaunged both in hym and the.[See Chaucer Bo. 5.pr.3.]
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)1.4198 : Thus entirchaungyng,..Ech was desirous..Vpon other fro to do vengaunce.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)3.2845 : Thei made among hem a ful straunge ordenaunce..To entirchaunge ther wuyes for plesaunce, And take hir first that cam to ther presence.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.273 : Thus all discord be enterchanged loue [L alternus amor] Exiled is out fro þe heuene aboue.
c
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)4.pr.5.23 : I merveile me gretly..why that the thinges ben so mys entrechaunged [L uersa uice mutentur] that tormentz of felonyes pressen and confounden goode folk, and schrewes ravysschen medes of vertu.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)3.pr.2.50 : Ther ben folk that entrechaungen [L permutent] the causes and the endes of thyse forseyde goodes.
2.
(a) Of two things: to alternate, to occur or predominate by turns; trans. to produce alternately, cause to alternate; (b) pass. to be assigned one's turn.
Associated quotations
a
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)1131 : Thus entrechaunge euery ȝere they shal: The ton ascendeth, that other haþ a fal.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)5.pr.6.292 : And thilke prescience--ne semeth it nat to entrechaunge [L alternare] stoundis of knowynge?
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)5.m.1.12 : Thanne moten thilke thingis fleten togidre whiche that the watir of the entrechaungynge flood bryngeth.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.70 : My swyft wheel þus vp and down I wynde, Þe hye wiþ lowe to entirchaungen ofte.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)41b : To Entyrchaunge: Alternor.
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)82/176 : Sorowe and joy kyndely moten entrechangen their tymes; so that alway oon wele, as alway oon wo, may not endure.
b
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)81/156 : By cours of planettes al your dayes proceden; and to everich of singuler houres be enterchaunged stondmele about..til al seven han had her course about.
3.
Hunt. To run in such manner that the hind feet fall between the prints of the forefeet.
Associated quotations
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)90 : If it be a deer þat entierchaungeth [F surmarche; Roy 17.A.55: enter marcheth], it is to saie, if þe deer sette the hynder feet in þe trace of þe forfett wiþout onpassyng, it is no good tokyn.