Middle English Dictionary Entry
hōd(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hōd(e n. Also hād(e & hēde. Pl. hōdes, etc. & (early) hād, hāt, (dat.) hādan, hādum. |
| Etymology | OE hād. The hēde- forms are N & may be from an OE *hǣde or -hǣdu, perh. under influence of ON (cp. OI heiðr honor, worth). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Quality, rank, condition, status; the order of knighthood; (b) holy orders, priest's or bishop's orders, etc.; also, an order as of monks, canons, etc.; (c) one of the orders or choirs of angels.
Associated quotations
a
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)45 : Ðo þre kinges bitocneð þre hodes of bilefulle men..meidhod..spushod..widewehod.
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)20/324 : Of þes þreo hat [vr. had], Meiðhad & widewehad & wedlac..þu mahte..icnawen hwuch & bi hu muchel þe an passeð þe oþer.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)176/2 : Þe heȝere þet byeþ þe hodes, þe gratte[r] is þe zenne.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)21220 : Barnabas..Wit paule o-mang þe haþen lede, He wan vnto þe apostlis hede [vrr. apostel-hede, apostil-hede, apostle hede].
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)21700 : Quilk wand þat suld bere blome, Suld haf þe preistes hede [Phys-E: pristis hade] wit dome.
- a1400 Cursor (Frf 14)5413 : Þe landes of þat lede atte taȝt ware for þe prestes at fede þai helde þam-self al for þaire hade.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)2297 : Halde þe now þe hyȝe hode þat Arþur þe raȝt.
- c1440(?a1400) Perceval (Thrn)1103 : Blode-rede was his stede, His akton and his oþer wede; His cote of þe same hede Þat till a knyghte felle.
b
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1103 : He ongean riht nolde his hades on-fon æt þam arce biscop Girarde of Eoferwic.
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1119 : He..his had æt þam papan under feng.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)ded.9 : Witt hafenn takenn ba An reȝhellboc to follȝhenn, Unnderr kanunnkess had & lif, Swa summ Saunt Awwstin sette.
- a1225(OE) Lamb.Hom.Pentec.(Lamb 487)101 : Bisceopas þes ilcan hades on godes ilaðunge.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)13224 : Ich bad hine for gode don þat child of hade [Otho: hod] &..king he scolde beon.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)13267 : He for-lette goddes had [Otho: hod].
- a1250 Ancr.(Nero A.14)143/27 : Sire hit was mid swuche monne..Munuch, preost, oðer clerk, & of ðet hode [Corp-C: ordre].
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)49/14 : Þe tende [branch of adultery] is of wyfmen to clerkes y-hoded. Þis zenne anheȝeþ and loȝeþ by þe hodes [Vices & V.(2): ordres] and þe worþsshiphede.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)235/9 : Þet hod þet hi [clerkes] habbeþ onderuonge þet acseþ alle holinesse.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)21248 : For his liuelade, o biscop siþen he [Mark] tok þe hade.
- a1400 NVPsalter (Hrl 1770)109.5 : Hode [Vsp: þou ert preste..After ordre of Melchisedeke].
c
- a1225(OE) Vsp.A.Hom.Init.Creat.(Vsp A.22)219 : He ȝescop tyen engel werod (oðer had) oðer hapes þat beoð angeli, boden, archangeli, hahboden.
- a1225(OE) Vsp.A.Hom.Init.Creat.(Vsp A.22)221 : Þa ȝefestnede se ælmihti god þa nigen angle wærod, heapes, had.
2.
One of the Persons of the Trinity.
Associated quotations
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)1/17 : Þas þry hades syndon an Ælmihtig God.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)18/34 : An Almihtiȝ God æfre on ðreo hadum.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)1361 : Crist iss baþe Godd & mann, An had off twinne kinde.
- a1225(OE) Lamb.Hom.Pentec.(Lamb 487)99 : God is icundeliche on þreom Hadan, feder and sune..and þe halȝe gast.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)50/17 : Ȝe, þreo ant tah an, in hades to-tweamet, in..hehschipe untodealet.
- c1225 St.Juliana (Roy 17.A.27)70/596 : Godd..þet rixleð in þreo had & þah is an untweamet.