Middle English Dictionary Entry
hōlen v.(3)
Entry Info
| Forms | hōlen v.(3) Also hol, halen. Forms: sg. 3 hōliȝt, hāleð; p. hōled, hāled, hālde; ppl. hōled, hāled. Contr.: holint (= holen hit). |
| Etymology | OE hālian & ME hōl(e adj.(2). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To cure (sb., a bodily part); save (sb.) spiritually; heal (sb. of a disease); cure (sb. of sinfulness); -- often with fro or of phrase; (b) to heal (a sore or wound); cure (a disease); also, amend (a sin); ppl. holinge, of medicines: healing, sanative; (c) of persons: to become strong or healthy; of sores: to heal.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)31/19 : Þus þu scealt hine halan.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)119/25 : Ðus us halde ure halend Iesu Crist.
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)2039 : Y mouthe his woundes se, Yf that he mouthen holed be.
- c1330 7 Sages(1) (Auch)41/899 : To Ypocras anon he sent Þat he scholde come his sone to hale.
- a1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)14157 : Þai troud þat he moght Þair broþer hale of all his soght.
- c1400 St.Anne(1) (Min-U Z.822.N.81)3136 : I wyll hale þe nowe..Þu sall be seke no mare.
- (1440) *Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)2455 : He holid him both fro langour & fro cryme.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)235 : Heelyn or hoolyn of sekenesse: Sano, curo, medico, medicor.
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)154/25 : Elebourrus..holyȝt a man of þe emeraudys.
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)123 : He put his handes up on hem and holed hem [blind men].
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)138/8 : Ley it as a plaister with-owtyn þe sor eye; and þow it be perlisly hurt, it schall holynt.
- (1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)110/23 : Þei sent in þis ambassiat to Rome v of þe same ordre..summe wer holed fro certeyn seknesse.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)97.2 : Tha that ere halyd [vr. holed] in trouth and luf, thai ere sauyd til god.
b
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)13/4 : Þa healsgunda syndan twa cunna; þo oþer byd eaðe to halene.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)71/2 : Ðar ðu art ðurh hem [sins] ȝewunded, ðat ðu cunne hes halen.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.7 : Þo ilk fiue sorowes he calles fiue woundes, Þat ere not ȝit haled.
- a1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)8323 : He..had in stryfe A sare wound..þat parfytely es haled and wele.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)79/36 : Hale it [the fistula] with frank encense & þe jews of waybrede.
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)129/13 : Þe jows..is good to holyn a cancre.
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)5.1952 : With whiche oyle, of soores all grevauns Whiche men suffre, it wil be hooled anoon.
- ?a1450 Virtues Herbs (Stockh 10.90)77 : Garlek..wyl hole þe bytyng of a wod hound.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)70/7 : Þis entret is drawynge and holynge.
c
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B:Berberich)101.65/6 : Leȝe on wunde; heo haleð sona.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B:Berberich)129.122/2 : Hit [the sore] seal berstan & hala.
- ?c1450 Iff a man (Stockh 10.90)301/241 : Of cler hony and rye-flour late bake a kake..And ley't to þe hole of þe festeryd sor..And so it schal holyn.
- a1475 Bk.Quint.(Sln 73)15/10 : Þe oolde feble man schal vse þis deuyn drynk..and wiþinne a fewe dayes he schal so hool þat he schal fele him silf of þe statt and þe strenkþe of xl ȝeer.
2.
Associated quotations
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)123 : Of þe soule and of such a body togidere couplid rise þe iije þing dyuerse from hem booþe and holid of hem booþe.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)186/35 : Þese spechis hoolid and maad of þe ij seid maners..schulen be affeermyngis and promissis circumstauncid wiþ ooþis.