Middle English Dictionary Entry
amitẹ̄ n.
Entry Info
| Forms | amitẹ̄ n. Also amiste. |
| Etymology | OF ami(s)té |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Friendly, peaceful relations between rulers or states, esp. as embodied in covenants; (b) a treaty of friendship, an agreement; (c) the peoples or groups (such as the members of the Hanseatic League) bound by such agreements of understandings.
Associated quotations
a
- (1450) RParl.5.181b : Where as of olde tyme betwene you and youre full noble Progenitours and theym of Almayne there hath been contynuell amyte and alliaunce [etc.].
- (1464) Let.Ormond in Fortescue Works26 : The longe contynewyd amytee, peace, and gode wille..betwene the same kynges and theire reaumes.
b
- (1469) GRed Bk.Bristolpt.2 p.133 : In a straunge schipp, beyng vndre oure salueconduct in Trewes or amitee.
- (1472) RParl.163b : Offenses..contrarie to th'Amytees and Leeges made betwix the Kyng oure Sovereigne Lord and outward Princes..the brekers or offenders of Amytees, Trues, Leeges or Saufcondites.
c
- (1437) RParl.4.508a : Certeins Merchauntz of Leyden, Amsterdamme..and Seland, beyng of ye special Amiste of oure Soverain Lorde, come yider [etc.].
- (1437) RParl.4.508b : Ye Merchauntz of Holland, Seland, and oyer of youre Amistee..been bounden by Statut to employe within ye same land als meche money as yaire Merchandise so broght into yis land amonteth.
- (1450) RParl.5.181b : Many Nobles..and full many other of your amyste there departed fro theire good wille and frendlyhode that they had afore to you.
- (1450) RParl.5.200a : Other Merchantz of th'amyte of oure seide Soveraigne Lorde.
- (1453) Proc.Privy C.6.164 : Þe seyd wolles..to be caryed out out of þis royalme in to suche parties of þe Kynges amite [etc.].
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)990 : The kyng, or his ligeaunce or amytee, Thei robbe anende and sle withoute pitee.
- -?-(a1461) Doc.in HMC Rep.3 App.279b : The Frenshemen..enlarge their amite and their aliage to suche as were beste oute of the kynge's amite, ouere sovereigne lorde.