Middle English Dictionary Entry
hẹ̄̆nden v.
Entry Info
| Forms | hẹ̄̆nden v. Also hinden. |
| Etymology | OE gehendan |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To seize (sb.); (b) ?to strike (sb.).
Associated quotations
a
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)12b/b : Cataristica: hended.
- a1450(a1387) PPl.A(2) (RwlPoet 137)12.67 : I wolde folwe þe fayn, but fentesye me hendeþ.
- a1450 Mandev.(3) (BodeMus 116)121/18 : Thanne the prestys castyth vp amongis hem the smale pecis, and euery of hem hyndit his part who may fyrst come therto and etyn it.
- ?a1500 Lychefelde Comp.G.(Lamb 306)476 : Put thy crosse..By-twene my werkis..And thy dome..that bondis of hell can me nat hende.
b
- c1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)21365 : Hii..vppe Colgrim smite swiþe smorte bites, And Colgrim ȝam hende [Clg: hente] and fulde þe Bruttus.