Middle English Dictionary Entry
fūǧitī̆f adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | fūǧitī̆f adj. |
| Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Fleeing or having taken flight; fleeing from justice, outlawed; (b) wandering from place to place, migratory; (c) unstable, unreliable, elusive.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 370)4 Kings 9.15 : No man goo oute fugytyue [WB(2): fleynge; L profugus] fro the cyte.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) Pref.Jer.(Corp-O 4)73 : The seruaunt fugitife [WB(2): that fley awey].
- (1450) Doc.in Power Craft Surg.322 : That the partye ageinst whom the compleint is made be not fugityf.
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)146 : The man That first cam, thurgh his destinee, Fugityf of Troy contree In Itayle.
- (1467) Ordin.Wor.405 : Yf eny citezen fugitif be attached.
b
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Gen 4.16 : Caym..dwellide fer fugitif [WB(2): fleynge aboute; L profugus] in the erthe.
- a1425 Adam & E.(3) (Wht)87/36 : Vagaunt and fer fugytif þou schalt be on erþe.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)6699 : A beste [the hare]..Of hys Nature fugytyfe.
- a1500(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Stw 952(1))16843 : Synfull ffolkys that be ffugytyff shalle ffleen vn-to the ffor socour.
c
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)7.1225 : Fals and fugitiff is mercurivs.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)5.209 (v.1:p.81) : This worlde is verrey wrecchid, subiect to casueltees and so fleyng and so fugitife than [read: that] whan it semyth moste to abiden it moste sodeynly passith awey.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)141/24 : Þis fugitive answere may not stonde..whilis holi doctouris..discorden.