Middle English Dictionary Entry
four-scōre num.
Entry Info
| Forms | four-scōre num. Also foure-. |
| Etymology | Cp. scōre a tally of twenty. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Four times twenty, eighty, fourscore.
Associated quotations
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)77/209 : Four-score ȝer he was old.
- a1350(c1307) Death Edw.I (Hrl 2253)28 : Ouer þe see þat hue be diht wiþ fourscore knyhtes.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)7839 : Þo deide he in þe ȝer of grace a þousend as it was, & four score & seuene.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)132 : Feþli, among foure schore vnneþe findestow on gode.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)109b/a : Þat is fourscore grees & ten.
- a1400(?a1350) Siege Troy(1) (Eg 2862)887 : Of shippes he brouȝt foure-score.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)1 Kings 22.18 : Foure score and fyue [WB(1): fyue and eiȝtith] men.
- 1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)1876 : Tyl fourescore yer sche was baren.
- c1450 Myght wisdom (Add 31042)161 : Of sexty quenys Salamon dothe write, With fourescore concubynes folowynge.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)167/158 : For more than ffowre skore ȝere and to.