Middle English Dictionary Entry
annuē̆l adj. & n.
Entry Info
| Forms | annuē̆l adj. & n. Also annual. |
| Etymology | OF & L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of income, rent, a feast, etc.: yearly, annual; (b) of service: lasting a year, by the year; (c) of persons: engaged or appointed by the year; (d) ~ prest, a priest who performs anniversary memorial services.
Associated quotations
a
- (?1406) Hoccl.MR (Hnt HM 111)361 : Thy rentes annuel..To scarse been greet costes to susteene.
- (1426) Proc.Chanc.in Cal.PCEliz.1.p.xxi : Symkyn Yve of Grantham..disherite John Haryngton son..of v marc of annuell rent.
- (1429-30) Doc.in Flasdieck Origurk.80 : Yat my saydys feffis graunt a nanuell rent of fourty schilyng..to Gy ffayrfax.
- (1446) Doc.Finchale in Sur.Soc.673 : That the vicar myght have the kirke aforesaid bounden to hym undre our common seall for oon annuell pension duryng his lyffe.
- a1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)1478 : Relekes, waxe, & annual rentes.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)141.175 (v.2:p.399) : This feste wiche ys to vs annuel ys to hym dayly continuel.
- (1464) RParl.5.536b : Oure Graunte made unto hym of the annuel pension, ferme, rent or apport of x Marc.
- (1473) RParl.6.90a : An annuell pencion by us to hym graunted..for terme of his lyfe.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)238/18 : The yifte..made to hem of an annual rent of half a marke.
b
- (c1474) Let.Christ Ch.in Camd.n.s.1930 : He was sure of an annuell service.
c
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Ecclus.37.14 : With the annuel werker [WB(2): a werk man hirid bi the ȝeer].
d
- a1400 Preste ne monke (Cleo B.2)267 : This is a quaynt custome..That frers shal annuel prestes bycome, and so gates selle ther song.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)228 : To paye this summe the annual prestis were compelled.
2.
As noun: a service commemorating the anniversary of a person's death, a memorial service; a payment or endowment for this purpose [cp. aniversarie].
Associated quotations
- a1400 Preste ne monke (Cleo B.2)267 : Suche annuels has made thes frers so wely and so gay.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)293 : Eke prestis annueleris payed nobles to the King and alle religious, if thei had swech annuelles.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)94/12 : Other annuell, other trentall, shold [the prest] take of the parisshens of the modir chirche but of licence and wille of the said vicary.
- c1600(?c1395) PPl.Creed (Trin-C R.3.15)414 : I am in drede Lest ho turne her testament, & þerfore I hyȝe To..ȝif y miȝte, An Anuell for myn owen.