Middle English Dictionary Entry
īdus n.
Entry Info
| Forms | īdus n. Also ides & ide, jde. |
| Etymology | L īdus & OF ides. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The ides of the month (i.e., the fifteenth of March, May, July, October, the thirteenth of any other month); ferthe dai that is in the ~ of octobre, October 12; (b) a day reckoned backwards from (and including) the ides; thridde ~ of octobre, October 13; eightethe ~ of juin, June 6; last ~ of march, March 15; etc.
Associated quotations
a
- a1126 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1124 : Þet wæs þes dæies Idus Martii.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)125b/b : Som day haþ þe name of kalendis and somme of ydus.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.341 : Idus þat is of May left I to write þis ryme.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)2.29 : At Ianys monys Idus, temporate Ground is to sowe in barly galatyke.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.568 : Feueryeer..at this mones Idus is good hour To make a gardyn hegge.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)16033 : Þe ferþe day þat ys y þe ides of Octobre.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)7.403 : Thei have but oon refeccion in the day from the idus of September untylle Ester.
b
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Sq.(Manly-Rickert)F.47 : He leet the feste of his natiuitee Doon crien thurgh out Sarray his citee The laste Idus of March after the yeer.
- (1440) *Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)3619 : The eyte ydus of Iuny.
- (1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)141/15 : Her lith Seynt Gilbert..whech was translate in-to þis schrine..þe þirde yde of October.
- (1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)142/5 : Þe þirde idus of Ianuari.
- c1453(c1437) Brut-1436 (Hrl 53)563/7 : At þe viijte Idus of Ianuare, Kyng Henry and Dame Kateryn comen in-to Englond.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)2722 : Tho dayis euer are of mery cheer, And thenne vnto the IIIde Ide of Nouembre The dayis wil now loure and now be cleer.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)52a/a : Colere..bigynneþ to encresen in Estas, þat is, in þe viij Jde of May, & duriþ to þe iij Jde of august.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)52b/b, 53a/a : Flewme..bigynneþ to encrese þe firste day of yemus, þat is to seie, þe 5 Jde of Nouembre, and duriþ vn to þe 6 Jde of ffeuerer.
- a1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 3909)5235 : Iohan the Baptist..baptist hym [Christ]..the eȝt Ide of Ianuer, twelfe daies from his natiuite.