Middle English Dictionary Entry
grẹ̄āble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | grẹ̄āble adj. |
| Etymology | OF grëable |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Suitable, fitting; (b) pleasant, pleasing; (c) willing, amicable, docile.
Associated quotations
a
- (1402) Topias (Dgb 41)p.112 : The preier of Deus laudem, the greable gardoun for al opin sclaundris.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.2672 : A certeyn hour..To oure entent þat be moste greable.
- (1430) Will Durham in Sur.Soc.279 : I wylle yat cccc marc..bee dispendet vpon bygging of yeir Kyrk if yei wol make greable seurtez yat it shal soo be deuly doon.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)192 : Ley estate with the vpper part, þe brede of half fote is greable.
b
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.1282 : Þe place was inly delittable, Of corn and greyne passyngly greable.
- a1456(a1449) Lydg.Mum.Bishopswood (Ashm 59)11 : Making þe vertue..vegytable For to trascende..In-to þe crope, þis saysoun so greable.
- c1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)151/19 : The hert is yeuen .. to that habitacion that to him is moost greable, the lyf and the heele amendith therynne and encreecith.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)95/28 : Lorde, do þat þou saist, for þat is greable [L gratum] to me here.
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.159 : This service hertly is to gods modere greable [L acceptam..et..gratum].
- c1500(1463) Ashby Pris.(Trin-C R.3.19)104 : To chaung my lyf to god greable.
c
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)742 : Of my gylt graunte þou me repentaunce, And þi strook take in greable [vr. charitable] souffraunce.
- a1475 Lydg.Prayer Cross (Cmb Hh.4.12)14 : Lat us tweyn in thys thyng be greable [vr. tretable] loffe for loff, by iust conuencion.