Middle English Dictionary Entry
four-cornered adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | four-cornered adj. Also foure-, faure-. |
| Etymology | From phrase. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Having four corners, rectangular; (b) of a precious stone: having facets with four corners; (c) ~ nomber, a number which is the square of another number; ?a number formed by the multiplication of four factors.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Ezek.41.21 : The thresfold foure cornerd.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)270b/b : The knottes ymade now forcornered, now euelong, and now round.
- a1425 NHom.(3) Leg.Suppl.Hrl.(Hrl 4196)41/609 : A graue foure-cornerd gert he wirk.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)175 : Fowre corneryd: Quadrangulus, quadrangularis.
- (1444) Will York in Sur.Soc.30101 : Cum uno goosse pan de ferro faurecornered.
- a1450 7 Sages(3) (Cmb Dd.1.17)140 : Nought as anothir halle it nas, Even four cornarde it was.
b
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)79/12 : Þai er foure cornerd of þaire awen growyng and foure squarre.
- a1500 Peterb.Lapid.(Peterb 33)72 : Andromia..is iiij cornerd in schap as ben þe corners of a diamounde.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)328a/a : Þe numbre superficial..is conteyned in lengþe and in brede: a þre cornered nombre and foure cornered [L tetragonus seu quadratus] and fyue cornered and rounde and oþer such.