Middle English Dictionary Entry
hus-bō̆ndrī(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hus-bō̆ndrī(e n. Also -bonderie, -banderi, -bondriȝe & (Latinized) husbandria. |
| Etymology | From hǒus-bō̆nd(e. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The management of a household, housekeeping; household duties or activities; stuffe of ~, household articles; (b) skillful management, economical use, economy, thrift; gret ~, a thrifty bargain.
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 SLeg.Magd.(2) (LdMisc 108)56 : Lazarus spendede al is þouȝht op-on his chiualerie; Of oþur þingus ne tok he no ȝeme ne to housebondrie.
- (1332) Let.Christ Ch.in RS 85.1356 : Et sumes meismes novel homme et poy avoms entremys de hosebounderye.
- (1363) Statutes Realm1.381 : Toutes maneres des gentz destate de garson, entendantz a husbandrie..ne usent nule manere de drap, [etc.].
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Rv.(Manly-Rickert)A.4077 : This Aleyn al forgat bothe mele and corn; Al was out of his mynde his housbondrye [vrr. hosebondrye, hosbandrie, husbondrie].
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)33a/b : Iconomia: hosbondrie.
- (1438) Will Norwich in Nrf.Archaeol.4328 : And as towchyng in alle my goodes, catalles, and jowelles..and alle my stuff of houssold and husbondrye in my maner of Ingham or elleswher, thys is my last Wyll.
- (1440) Visit.Alnwick187 : That ye [prioress] bysylly ouersee your baylly that your husbandry be sufficyently gouernede to the avayle of your house.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)977 : I am nat In housbondrye lerned worth a myte.
- a1475 PPl.A(1) (Hrl 3954)11.183 : Husbondryȝe it [active life] vsyth.
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)2.A.1050 : Jangelyng in churche among hem is not vsed, To telle of her housbandrye [vr. howswyfry] al the wooke before.
- 1790(1471-1472) Ordin.Househ.Edw.IV(2) (Topham)56 : The grete charge of polycy and husbandry of all this houshold..stondyth moste part by his..dylygent pourveyaunce.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)66a : Husbandry:..Iconomia.
- -?-(1425) Doc.in Entick Hist.Lond.(1766)4.354 : The office and charge of him [the tutor] shal be..the husbandry of the same house, in as much as he may goodly oversee, dispose, and ordain.
b
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)1.55 : Kuynde wit be wardeyn oure weolþe to kepe..For husbondrie [B: housbonderye; C: hosboundrie] and he holden to-gedere.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4018 : By housbondrye [vrr. husbondry, husbandry] of swich as god hire sente, She foond hire self and eek hire doghtren two.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.1296 : 'Ne take no wyf,' quod he, 'for housbondrye [vrr. husbonderye, husbandrye], As for to spare in houshold thy dispence.'
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)158/2840 : I vow to God, it is gret husbondry; Of þee I take þese noblys rownde.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)49/21 : Prudence is departid into many braunchis..and into þilk kunnyng which is callid yconomy or husbondri.
2.
(a) Farm management, farming operations, agriculture; farming; also fig.; (b) cultivation.
Associated quotations
a
- ?c1300 Henley Hosebondrie (Cmb Ee.1.1)2 : Ce est le dite de hosebondrie ke vn sage homme fist iadis ke auoyt a non syre Walter de henle.
- (1417-20) Will in Bk.Lond.E.221/16 : Ȝif it like to his fadir and to his moder to be atte Herdyngton and see the husbandery.
- a1425 Iesu þat wolde (LdMisc 463)p.192-3 : If a man haue enuie To his neighbores hosbondrie Of tilthe or of oþer thing..Bot if he haue gret enuie To his neighbores hosbonderye And wolde his lond were vntyled.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.2,15 : And husbondrie No rethorik do teche, or eloquence..In thingis iiij al husbondrie mot stonde: In watir, aier, in londe and gouernaunce.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)160 : A badde husboundrie it were for to caste awey the having and vsing of ymagis for ech moral vice which myȝte rise therbi.
- ?c1450(?a1400) Wycl.Clergy HP (Lamb 551)387 : Criste..alowid þe comonte her liflode goten bi true merchandise & hosbondrie and oþer craftis.
- (1464) Lin.DDoc.129/6 : Youre humble and continuell oratours..haue but litell lyfloode to lyve by but only by husbondry.
- (1465) Lin.DDoc.123/30 : Item, that Richard haue all maner stuff perteyning to housbondry, as hors, carte, plough, with all theire apparelles.
- (1466) Stonor1.77 : He thurst nat attend his husbondrye, to his importable losse..havyng in his hand as moche land in ferme as he paiethe therfor xl li.
- (a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)141 : The new husbondry þat is done þer, namely, in grobbyng and stokkyng off treis, busses, and groves.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)66a : Husbandry: Agricultura.
- a1500 Henley Husb.(Sln 686)41 : The tretyce off housbandry þt maystur groshe[teste] made.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.242 : Tilthe of land was leyd..A kyng woteth not what harmeth housbandrye.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)226a/a : Also in corn þat groweþ, nedeþ busy housbondry, for it nediþ þat corn be clenly weeded and clensed of superfluite of yuele wedis.
3.
Household articles; farm animals and implements; ?also, household needs or expenses.
Associated quotations
- (c1344) Doc.Finchale in Sur.Soc.6p.xxxv : Et de liij s. ix d. in husbandria de Fynkhale, Thorp, et Softeley.
- (1357-8) Doc.Finchale in Sur.Soc.6p.xlvi : In diversis rebus emptis pro husbandria apud Fynchall, Wyndegate, et Hessewell, v l. xj s. vj d. ob.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.288 : They been assayed at diuerse stoundes, Bacynes, lauours, er that men hem bye, Spoones, stooles, and al swich housbondrye.
- (1466) Will York in Sur.Soc.30285 : I witt to Herre, my son, al my husbandery at Malton, that his to say, xj oxen with the ploght and wayne and all odyr gere thar to belonging.
4.
Husbands collectively.
Associated quotations
- a1450 Terms Assoc.(1) (Rwl D.328)603 : A multeplynge of hosbandri. A nonpaciens of wyues.