Middle English Dictionary Entry
hẹ̄̆nde adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | hẹ̄̆nde adv. |
| Etymology | OE gehende adv. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Near, close; fer and (no) ~; also as quasi-prep.: close to (sb.); (b) quickly, skillfully, diligently, well.
Associated quotations
a
- c1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)82/74 : Hi funden hem so hende, To þe lond þer his lemman is; Him þuȝte he was in porais.
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)359 : Raþe he sende After prestes fer an hende.
- c1330(?a1300) Guy(2) (Auch)p.516 : Y went To seche Gij..Y no finde nouȝt fer no hende.
- c1330(?a1300) KAlex.(Auch)369/35 : Jt no beþ nouȝt alle our frende Þat ous beþ now hende.
- c1330(?c1300) Amis (Auch)1595 : He schal no more sitt me so hende.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)278 : I nas neuer ȝet so hardi to neȝh him so hende.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)9270 : Many a man aboute him houered..That Ector schold not come him hende.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)12546 : Sey þemperour he go to Rome, & to ffraunce non hender come.
- a1450 Semenaunt is (Sln 2593)p.256 : Trewthe is fer and semit hynde.
- a1500(?a1400) Morte Arth.(2) (Hrl 2252)332 : She sent for lechis..That wonnyd both ferre and hend.
- c1500 Resurrection (Ashm 61)337 : Jhesu seyd: 'woman, come not hend!'
b
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)612 : In þon castle he dude hende six hundred of his cnihten.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)1911 : Þe dukes..biddeþ hym smertly helpyng, And of-sendeþ quyk socour hende.
- a1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)18/17 : Þe harmes þat ȝe haue hent..Hides and helis als hende.
- c1450 Lychefelde Comp.G.(Lamb 853)384 : Y þinke..To restore aȝen þat y took mys, And to paie my dettis fair and hende.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)57/190 : These lawys to lerne þou herke ful hynde.
- a1500(?c1400) Song Roland (Lnsd 388)48 : Tak vp tentis and truse hem hem [read: hom] hend.
- ?a1500(a1475) Wright's CW (Lamb 306)508 : Sche gaue hym in hande a rocke hynde, And bade hem fast for to wynde.