Middle English Dictionary Entry
hā̆tel adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | hā̆tel adj. Also hetel, heatel. |
| Etymology | OE hatol & hetol. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Hostile, full of hate; ~ ayenes, hostile toward (sb.); (b) cruel, fierce, violent; dangerous, deadly; (c) odious, hated; (d) for ~, because of anger.
Associated quotations
a
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)138/30 : Þe mon..binimæð him selfum swa þone lyflice wæȝ..mid his heardheortnesse his hetele modes.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2544 : Ðe egtenede king..Agenes ðis folc hatel is.
b
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)1947 : & wes sone..þeos heane & teos hatele [Bod: heatele] tintreohe itimbret.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)2214 : Ich am her, þu hatele gast.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)2451 : He..hef þet hatele [Bod: heatele] sweord up.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)14/30 : He wule, þu heatele [Roy: hatele] reue, arudde mi sawle.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)50/27 : He wið þet hef up hetelest [Roy: hatelest] alre wepne.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)204/14 : Lo, ich halde her heatel [Nero: hetel] sweord up o þin heaued.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)227 : So fro heven to helle þat hatel schor laste.
- c1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)367 : Such a hidor hem hent & a hatel drede Þat al chaunged her chere.
- c1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)481 : With hatel anger & hot, heterly he callez.
c
- c1225(?c1200) SWard (Bod 34)16/139 : O helle, deaðes hus, wununge of wanunge, of grure ant of granunge, heatel [Roy: hatel] ham.
- c1415 Chaucer CT.WB.(Corp-O 198)D.1195 : Pouert is hatel [vr. hateful] good and, as I gesse, A ful gret brynger out of busynesse.
d
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)200 : Bot never ȝet in no boke breved I herde Þat ever he wrek so wyþerly on werk þat he made..Ne so hastyfly watz hot for hatel of his wylle.