Middle English Dictionary Entry
apocalips(e, -yp(p)es n.
Entry Info
| Forms | apocalips(e, -yp(p)es n. |
| Etymology | L, from Gr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The Apocalypse [the last book of the New Testament]; (b) the vision or revelation described there.
Associated quotations
a
- [ a1100 in Evans & Serjeantson Engl.Lapidaries13 : Her onginþ embe twelf derwyrðan stanas & gimmas þe we leornudan in pocalipsis þære bec. ]
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)ded.256 : Þatt hallȝhe boc þatt iss Apokalypsis nemmnedd.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)81 : Her of seid seint Iohan þe ewangeliste in apocalipsi.
- c1230(?a1200) *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)24b : Hit is a dearne healewi, seið seint iuhan euaungeliste i þe apocalipse.
- a1275 Louerd asse þu ard (Trin-C B.14.39)28 : Asse me hit fint in þe pokalips of þe louer sein Johon.
- c1300 SLeg.John (LdMisc 108)77 : Þe priuetez of heouene ore louerd him [John] schewede þere, ȝware-of he made þare ane bok..þat men cleopeth Apocalips.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)14 : Ion ine þe boc of his sseawyinges, þet is y-cleped þe apocalipse, zuo zayþ.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.6389 : Virginite is forto preise, Which, as thapocalips recordeth, To Crist in hevene best acordeth.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)129a/b : It is I seide in þe apocalips, þey schulle goo wiþine in white for þey bene worþi.
- c1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)787 : Þe Lambez vyuez in blysse we bene, A hondred and forty þowsande flot, As in þe Apocalyppez hit is sene; Sant John hem syȝ..On þe hyl of Syon..Þe apostel hem segh in gostly drem.
- c1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)866 : In Appocalyppece is wryten in wro [etc.].
- ?a1425(a1415) Wycl.Lantern (Hrl 2324)119/9 : Salamon..And seint Ion in his apocalips..seyn þat God repreueþ & chastisiþ alle hem þat he loueþ & resceyueþ to blisse.
- a1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)4363 : Bot in þe appocalipse apparty Es sayd þus ful mistyly [etc.].
- a1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)17/14 : A leschun red of þa apocalips.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)12/1 : Þe ile of Pathmos, whare sayn Iohn..wrate þe apochalipse.
- a1450 Dc.291 Lapid.(Dc 291)19 : Seint Iohn seith in þe apocalipce þat he sawe this stone in þe sixte foundament of the verray Kyngdome. And þe sixte signifieth þat Adam was fourmed þe sixte daye.
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)1385 : As feele eyen hadde she As..weren on the bestes foure That Goddis trone gunne honoure, As John writ in th'Apocalips.
- ?c1450(?a1400) Wycl.Clergy HP (Lamb 551)380 : Þe xij chapitre of þe apocalips.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)17161 : Nat in the Book off Danyel..Nor in Thapocalyps off Iohan.
- 1532(?a1400) RRose (Thynne)7391 : That false traytouresse untrewe Was lyk that salowe hors of hewe, That in the Apocalips is shewed, That signifyeth tho folk beschrewed.
b
- c1440 Degrev.(Thrn)1453 : Þer men myght..Se..þe Pokalypps of John, Paulis Pistils ylkone..Paynted full righte.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.PPeace (Hrl 2255)145 : The Apocalips remembryd of seyn Iohn; In his avisiouns the Ewangelist..sauh ridyng Oon, Fers and proudly vpon a poleyn steede..vengable and reklees.
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)32/27 : God schewet hym þe apocalyppys of þys world þat were forto come, and most of Antecryst, and of þe worldes endyng, and of þe day of dome. And as he segh hit, he wrot hit yn gret confyrmacyon of holy chyrche.
2.
(a) Insight, vision; (b) a vision or hallucination.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Cor.14.26 : Whanne ȝe comen to gidere, ech of ȝou hath a salm, he hath techinge, he hath apocalips or reuelacioun, he hath tunge, he hath interpretynge.
b
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)16.99 : [The glutton] hath dronke so depe he wol deuiny sone, And preouen it by here apocalips [B: pocalips, appocalipsis]..Þat neither bacoun ne braune..Is noither fisshe [ne] flesshe.