Middle English Dictionary Entry
glǒtonī(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | glǒtonī(e n. Also glotonẹ̄, glotani, gloteni(e, glotenei, glotini, glotine, glotouni(e, clotoni & glutoni(e. |
| Etymology | OF glotonie |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Intemperate or special appetite for food and/or drink; indulgence of this appetite; the vice of gluttony, the sixth of the seven deadly sins; (b) fig. gluttony personified; bere of ~, cormeraunt of ~; (c) an act of gluttony; don ~, usen ~, to indulge in gluttony; (d) surfeit from gluttony; drunkenness.
Associated quotations
a
- c1230(?a1200) *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)51b : Þe inre fondunge is twauald, fleschlich & gastelich: fleschlich, as of leccherie, of glutunie, of slawðe.
- c1275 Ken.Serm.(LdMisc 471)218/144 : Si lepre be tokned þo grete sennen..þefte, Glutunie, drunkenesse, and alle þo sennen þurch wiche me liest þo luue of gode almichti.
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)286/283 : Ich fondi þe dedes þere of glotonie for-to a-rere; Ich makie freres to muchel ete, and to drinke al-so.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)7417 : Þe englisse..uaste bigonne to singe, & spende al þe niȝt in glotonie [vrr. mete, eting] & in drinkinge.
- c1330 Iesu þat for vs (Auch)43 : Þourgh pride and þourgh glotonie We habben iliued in lecherie.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)50/12 : Uerst zigge we of þe zenne of glotounye, þet is a vice þet þe dyeuel is moche myde ypayd, and moche onpayþ god.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.818 : Glotonye is vnmesurable appetit to ete or to drynke.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)6.543 : Galba and..Vitellus..bothe were..of o condicion After the disposicion Of glotonie and drunkeschipe.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)291a/a : Þe leoun is a beste of gret glotonye, and coueyteþ moche mete.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)7182 : Þe synne of glotonye..At þe begynnyng y spake of þys, Ete ne drynk but þat nede ys.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)12941 : He sagh him hungri and for-fast; In glotoni [vrr. glotowny, glotani, gloteny] he wend him cast.
- (?1406) Hoccl.MR (Hnt HM 111)296 : Excesse of mete & drynke is glotonye.
- a1425(?a1400) Cloud (Hrl 674)37/17 : Ȝif it be deinteuous metes & drinkes, or any maner of delites þat man may taast, þen it is Glotenie.
- a1425 Cursor (Glb E.9)27901 : Men may find..Fowrkins maners of glotony: Ane es byfortyme forto ette, Anoþer to sit ouerlang at mete, þe thrid to ȝern metes dayntyuely, þe firth to ette ouer gredyly.
- (c1426) Audelay Poems (Dc 302)52/88 : Þat I haue synd in gloteney, þat stynkyng syn, foreȝif þou me.
- ?c1430(c1383) Wycl.Leaven Pharisees (Corp-C 296)7 : Þei ben ypocritis moste dampnable..Ȝif þei..lyuen..in most coueitise and ydilnesse, in most glotone, dronkennesse, or surfet and leccherie.
- ?c1430(c1400) Wycl.Prelates (Corp-C 296)86 : Prelatis..schewen most rebelte aȝenst god..lyuynge in pride..lecherie, glotyne, & wastynge of pore mennus gooddis.
- c1440(?c1350) Mirror St.Edm.(4) (Thrn)25/13 : The sexte dedly syn es glotony; and þat makes man to serue..wykked lykynges of þe flesche.
- a1450(?1404) As þe see (Dgb 102)122 : Sumtyme men halwed the holyday; Now holiday is turned to glotonye.
- a1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)310 : Þai lede þair lif in lechori And in dronkynnes & in clotony.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)142/1 : Glotonye is whan þou hast a talent, wyth-outyn temperure & mesure, to mete or drynke.
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)2.B.2010 : Glotonye..is the sixte synne, That men vse ofte in delicate fedyng of mete..When ouer mesure they drynke and ete.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)147/24 : A man is destourbet..by the wickydnesse of Fleshly appetites, that is to witte by glotony and Lechurie.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)24/52 : Som in pride, Ire, and enuy, Som in..glotyny.
b
- a1350 Heȝe louerd (Hrl 2253)53 : Glotonie mi glemon wes; wiþ me he wonede a while.
- c1430(c1380) Chaucer PF (Benson-Robinson)362 : The hote cormeraunt of glotenye.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)2073 : Voyde fro yow dronkenesse And hyr suster glotonye.
- c1425(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)58 : Þe bere of glotonie romist a bout, þat singiþ wiþ hie voys for to fille þe wombe.
- c1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)868 : He..seyde in nowyse They shuld with hym go..Geomansy, Magyk, and Glotony.
c
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)52/4 : He deþ ham breke hare uestinges and do hare glotounyes.
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)68.15 : Þe riche þat diden her glotenie maden o me fabled [read: fables].
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pard.(Manly-Rickert)C.514 : Wiste a man how manye maladies Folwen of excesse and of glotonyes, He wolde been the moore mesurable Of his diete.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)6.946 : For no such delicacie I trowe I do no glotonie.
- ?c1400 Wycl.CGosp.Mark (Add 41175:Hudson)52/68 : Þerof ben glotonyes and drunkenessis [Bernard (PL 183:959): commessationes et ebrietates].
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Deut.21.20 : He ȝyueth tent to glotonyes [WB(1): glotryes], and letcherie, and feestis.
- a1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)6730 : Forþy þat þai wald gyf na mete Til þe poer..Bot used ay outrage and glotony, It es right þat þai haf..Grete hungre in helle.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)55b : To do Glotony [Monson: glutony]: Crapulari, excrapulari, lurcare, vorare.
d
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)2.29 : Lo! loth in hus lyue þorw lecherouse drynke Wikkydlich wroghte..In hus glotenie by-gat [gerles] þat wereren [read: were] churles.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)153b/b : Þay þat suffre after þair wombe crapulam i. glotonye or indigestioun [*Ch.(2): glotenye and indigestioun; L crapulam seu indigestionem].
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. gluttony.