Middle English Dictionary Entry
fūrīe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | fūrīe n. |
| Etymology | OF furie & L furia. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Fierce anger or hatred, rage; (b) agony or torture; (c) madness.
Associated quotations
a
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2965 : First on ȝour silf..Schal þe vengaunce of þe Grekis byte, Þoruȝ þe furie of her mortal tene.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.2448 : Sodeinly in his wode furie..He smot Hector vpon þe basenet.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)1356 : With sharpe swerdes they togyder ryde..In her fury lik Tygres or lyouns.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.Prayer Leonard (LdMisc 683)25 : Sobre & appese suych folk as falle in furie.
b
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.718 : Rouþe was and pite for to sene Þe hertly furie of his peynes kene.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)4.253 : Whan the furie and al the rage Which that his herte twiste and faste threste, By lengthe of tyme, somwhat gan aswage.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)4.1429 : The grete furie of his penaunce Was queynt with hope, and therwith hem bitwene Bigan for joie th'amorouse daunce.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)5.212 : To bedde he goth, and walweth ther and torneth In furie, as doth he Ixion in helle.
c
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.4102 : Lik a man in furie he gan fare.
2.
Myth. One of the Eumenides or Furies; any avenging spirit.
Associated quotations
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2684 : Out of the ground a furye [vrr. fuyre, fyr] infernal sterte, From Pluto sent.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Fkl.(Manly-Rickert)F.950 : How that he..langwissheth as a furye [vrr. fuyre, fire] dooth in helle.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.6654 : By þe goddes and furies infernal.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)1.9 : To the clepe I, thow goddesse of torment, Thow cruwel Furie, sorwynge evere yn peyne.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.436 : O Furies thre of helle, on yow I crye!
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)3.m.12.37 : The thre goddesses, furiis and vengeresses of felonyes, that tormenten and agasten the soules by anoy.
- c1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)2252 : The Furies thre with al here mortal brond.