Middle English Dictionary Entry
fūǧitī̆f, -īve n.
Entry Info
| Forms | fūǧitī̆f, -īve n. |
| Etymology | From adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
One who flees or runs away, a fugitive, a deserter; a fugitive from justice, outlaw, exile; (b) a fugitive from the world, a saint; (c) one who abandons the monastic life and reneges on its vows.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Jer.52.15 : The fugitifes [WB(2): fleeris ouer; L perfugis] that floun to the king of Babilon.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Josh.20.2 : The citees of fugytyues, ether of men exilid for vnwilful schedyng of blood.
- c1425 Found.St.Barth.38/1 : Alurede..his fugityue by the monelight sawh.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)4.902 : This tiraunt..wente..Aboute the world as a fals fugityff.
- 1448(1435) *Mandeville Brut (Arms 58:Kooper)f.317r : Ye [read: He] and his folk haueþ discomfityd yow and youre folk, wherfore ye wentyn to þe wode as an outlawe and ye were ytake as a fugityf.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin (Corp-C 80)27791 : Aftyr þe fugytyves they gonne to chase.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)1441 : Call in sum fugitif [L proditores ac transfugas].
- (1467) Ordin.Wor.405 : That non citezein be attached by his body as ffugitif.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.OFools (LdMisc 683)87 : Lyk a ffugytyff [vr. fugetyf] that ffleeth to seyntwarie.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)659/19 : Bondemen or fugitifs..that flowe fro them aftir the deth of kyng Henry.
- (1475) RParl.6.126b : Catall of Felons and Fugityves.
b
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)75.10 (v.2:p.59) : Seynt Iames .. was a fugitif from the worlde, that vttirly despisyng.
c
- ?1482 Rev.Monk Eynsham2085 : Religyous persons that were fugytyuys, that is to sey, that ranne oute of her order by the whiche they had bonde hem-self to the seruice of God.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: For sense (c), cf. OED fugitive, adj. and n. B. 1. d. 'One that abandons a monastic life.' [sole quot.]