Middle English Dictionary Entry
filst n.
Entry Info
| Forms | filst n. Also fulste, vulste, felste. |
| Etymology | OE ful-lǣst, fullest, & fylst. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Aid, assistance, support; (b) furtherance, abetment; (c) filst-ale, a scotale (ML cervisia) or ale-feast held by a bailiff or other official, for which an enforced contribution was levied; cp. fils(t)nens-ale.
Associated quotations
a
- a1225(OE) Lamb.Hom.VA (Lamb 487)113 : He ne mei habben nane mihte to rihte butan godes fulste.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)21188 : Heo beoð for-demed alle mid drihttenes fulste.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)31622 : Ȝif ic him lenen wulle mine leoden to vulste [Otho: healpe].
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)151/12 : Þu miht mid godes felste ðe berȝen.
- c1225(?c1200) SWard (Bod 34)26/240 : Wið þe fulst of godd.
- a1250 Lofsong Louerde (Nero A.14)213 : Þu hauest binume me fulst of monne.
b
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)22/213,221 : [Lechery's] forme fulst is sihðe..Sone se cos kimeð forð, þet is hire þridde fulht [Tit: fulst].
c
- a1400(a1300) Annal Burton in RS 36.1 (Vsp E.3)332 : De parvis ballivis qui faciunt cervisias quas quandoque vocant Scotalas, quandoque Fulstales, ut extorqueant pecuniam a sequentibus hundredum et eorum subditis.