Middle English Dictionary Entry
grā̆men v.
Entry Info
| Forms | grā̆men v. Also gramie(n, gromien. P.ppl. i)gramed. |
| Etymology | OE gramian |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. gremen, agramen.
1.
(a) To make (sb.) angry, infuriate; be angry, be enraged; -- also impers.; gromiende speche, angry words; (b) to make (sb.) grieve, trouble (sb.), vex; be sorry, grieved, or troubled; -- also impers.; (c) to do harm to (sb.), afflict (sb.), torment, punish, insult.
Associated quotations
a
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)6127 : Þa seide Gudlakes sune mid gromiende [Otho: gram] speche.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)25216 : Ful swiðe us mæi gromien [Otho: gramie], þat heo sculle senden sonden after gauele to ure londe.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)59/639 : Swa þe reue gromede þet he gristbetede.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)61/669 : Þe reue..bigon to cwakien, se grundliche him gromede.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)40/5 : We iwurdeð wode þurh þe grome þet us gromeð aa wið þe gode.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)1603 : Ah þu me hauest sore igramed [Jes-O 29: igremed] Þat min heorte is wel neh alamed.
- a1425 Arth.& M.(LinI 150)645 : Wiþ hir sone heo gan to grame..And to þeo deouel heo him bitauȝht.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)16902 : The quene [Penthesilea]..With the Gregeis was sche gramed.
- a1450 SLeg.Suppl.Bod.(Bod 779)347/39 : Þe fadir gan to gramye..& disputed faste.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)38/85 : I..pray..þat god vs saue..With no grevauns þat we hym grame.
b
- a1225(?c1175) PMor.(Lamb 487)165 : For him ne scameþ ne ne gromeð [vrr. grameð, gramet] þe sculen bon iborȝen.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)69 : Þenche we ure giltes er þe dom cume..þanne ne þarf us noðer gramien ne shamien.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)691 : 'Ne make it noȝt so,' quaþ Olyuere, 'for oþer weys þee schal grame.'
- a1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)17836 : Carius and lenthius..wid all þair fless þai quoke onane, And wid þair hertis gum þai grame [Vsp: gran; Ld: yaf a grone].
- (a1422) Hoccl.Hen.V.& KG (Hnt HM 111)57 : Stif stande in þat, & yee shuln greeue & grame The fo to pees.
- (c1426) Audelay Poems (Dc 302)76/308 : Saynt Austyn stod and low; Saynt Gregore þen con grame.
- a1450 SLeg.Barlaam (Bod 779)908 : Leue sone, he seyde..þat þu me hast gramyd, þin hert auȝt be sor.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)24/259 : Gret schame it is vs nakyd to se, Oure lord god þus to grame.
- c1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)prol.41 : I wolde be gladde þat his gost myȝte glade be my wordis, And grame if it greued him.
- c1500 Men may leue (Trin-C R.3.19)3 : Many a man hit gramys, When they begyn to sayle.
c
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)1521 : And he þenkþ my lond conquerere..Bot arst y þenke hym offere, & alle hise to grame.
- c1390 Disp.Virg.& Cross (Vrn)16 : Chyld, whi artou not a-schamed On a pillori to ben I-piled? Grete Iewes þus weore gramed, And dyede for heore werkes wyled.
- a1400(?a1325) Bonav.Medit.(1) (Hrl 1701)548 : Þou angry man..For þe he suffred þys pyne. And for a lytyl wurde þou wylt men grame.
- c1400 St.Alex.(3) (LdMisc 622)53/734 : Sergeauntz þat þere-inne were, Ofte siþes gramed hym þere, And despised hym fast.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)348 : Make clene youre bord euer..þan may þe sewere his lord serue, & neythur of yow be gramed.
- a1500(a1475) Ashby Dicta (Cmb Mm.4.42)1057 : For trouthe at longe shal never be shamed, Thaugh he be other while Iuyl gramed.