Middle English Dictionary Entry
homicīde n.
Entry Info
| Forms | homicīde n. Also omicide, homecide, homeside, homisede. |
| Etymology | OF omecide, homicide |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The crime of killing a person; murder, manslaughter; don ~; an act of killing; also fig. the action of destroying or killing a person's spirit; (b) the personification of manslaughter; (c) one who kills another person; manslayer, murderer, suicide; also fig.; (d) man ~, a murderer.
Associated quotations
a
- c1230 Ancr.(Corp-C 402)105/1 : Þe seoueðe..is..hearmin hire i sawle & i bodi baðe; þeos is homicide & morðre of hire seoluen.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.564 : Homycide, that is manslaughtre, is in dyuerse wise; Som manere of homycide [vrr. Omycide, Manslaughter] is spirituel and som is bodily.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.566-7 : Homycide is eek by bakbitynge..Homycide is eek in yeuynge of wikked conseil by fraude.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.572 : Another homycide is doon for necessitee, as whan a man sleeth another in his defendaunt.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.575 : Eek if a womman by necligence ouerlyeth hire child in hir slepyng, it is homycide and deedly synne.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)3.2253 : The hihe god of his justice That ilke foule horrible vice Of homicide he hath forbede.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)7.1431 : Moordrers ros up withynne ther owne toun, So gret a noumbre with many an homycide.
- c1450(?c1400) Wycl.Elucid.(StJ-C G.25)16 : Alle deedly synnes were doon..in homycide, whanne him silf & al mankynde he [Adam] slow to deeþ boþe of body & soule.
- a1500 *Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149:Hulme)261b : Wyth hym [Jesus] wer Iuged ij folkes whych had doon homecyde.
- a1500 12 PTrib.(2) (Rwl C.894)395 : Dauid..fell into..homicide or manslauȝter.
b
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)3.1099 : Contek..Folhast hath to his Chamberlein, Be whos conseil al unavised Is Pacience most despised, Til Homicide with hem meete.
c
- [ (1312) RParl.1.283b : Et maintient robbeours, homicides, & les fait avoir la Chartre le Roi de pees. ]
- (c1375) Chaucer CT.Mk.(Manly-Rickert)B.3818 : Thus hath this robbour and this homycide..Swich gerdon as bilongeth vn to pride.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4414 : Thise homycides..in awayt liggen to mordre men.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.565 : Spirituel manslaughtre is in sixe thinges: First by hate, as seith Seint Iohn, 'He that hateth his brother is homycide [vr. omycide].'
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.574 : If a man by caas or auenture shete an arwe or caste a stoon with which he sleeth a man, he is homycide.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)3.2002 : Sche..was an homicide, And of hire oghne lord Moerdrice.
- a1400 Ancr.Recl.(Pep 2498)101/15 : Hij..harmen hem in soule & in body; Þise ben omicides & murþerers of hem seluen.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)8.2043 : Because thou art a cruel homycide..thou shalt a while abide.
- 1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)7980 : Do neuere owre god swych dyshonour To lykne hym to an homycyde & an auentour As Iupiter was.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)113.124 (v.2:p.194) : [His] moder, seeyng the childe dede and havyng suspicion to hir husbonde of his deth, bigan anoon to roren and cryen .. and often clepid hym homicide and manqueller.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.2 Merch.(Hrl 2255)731 : They hym asken..yif that he thomycide knewe, That hadde slayn the man.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)60/25 : His succidur þe homycide, at garte sla hym, ioyes of his dignytie.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)15777 : Ther-wyth I gyrde hem euerychon, Off wyche Barrabas was On, As he that was an homycyde.
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.56 : This was prefigured some tyme be Dauid kyng full right, Auoutrere and homicide, in Vrye his trewe knyght.
- c1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)704 : Ther were..Homycydes, poyseners, & comon morderers, [etc.].
- a1605(c1422) Hoccl.Dial.(Dur-U Cosin V.3.9)64 : Had I be for an homysede yknowe.
d
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Deeds 3.14 : Ȝe..denyeden the hooly and iust and axiden a man homeside, or mansleer [L virum homicidam], for to be ȝouun to ȝou.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500(1439) Lydg.Sts.AA (Lnsd 699)431 : Off antiquyte Romayns set a lawe To punyssh periurie, spar noon homycide.
Note: For sense (a)--per MJW