Middle English Dictionary Entry
immortā̆l adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | immortā̆l adj. Also immortel. |
| Etymology | OF immortel & L immortālis. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Immortal, eternal; ?also, divine; (b) enduring for a long time, never forgotten.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.639 : Inmortal god that sauedest Susanne Fro fals blame..If I be giltlees of this felonye, My socour be.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.1078 : [In Heaven] the body that whilom was syk, freele and feble and mortal is inmortal [vr. vnmortall] and so strong and so hool.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)8.2979 : Wherof the man of his feture Above alle erthli creature Aftir the soule is immortal.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.1117 : Þe goddis inmortal, Þat of kynde ben celestial, Vn-to recorde with al myn hert I take.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)1.103 : So aungelik was hir natif beaute, That lik a thing inmortal semed she.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)196/26 : Ȝif it were in his powere to make hem jnmortall, þereof wolde þei preyen him & thanken him.
- c1430(c1380) Chaucer PF (Benson-Robinson)73 : Know thyself first immortal, And loke ay besyly thow werche and wysse To commune profit.
- ?1435(1432) Lydg.Hen.VI Entry (Jul B.2)159 : On the riht hande off thes emperesses Stoode sevyn maydenys verrey celestyall..Off porte and chere semyng inmortall.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)3335 : God in-mortel..Mortel be-cam, to purge oure synful dede.
- c1450 Spec.Chr.(2) (Hrl 6580)50/19 : Aftyr this lyfe the chosen creaturs schal a-rise and be stronge, stable, ȝonge, fayre, and immortalle.
- (c1450) Capgr.St.Aug.(Add 36704)56/13 : Thei saide as long as Rome seruyd his goddis Iubiter, Iuno, Appollo, Minerue..so long was it kept be permision of þoo immortal goddis.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)9420 : He [God] made the Immortal, Permanent, & euere stable.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.15 O's (LdMisc 683)295 : O myghty Iesu!..Thy force faylled of power Immortall Slouh deth with deth.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)3.183 : Trawthe is immortalle [Trev.: schal neuere deie; L immortalis], immutable, and sempiternalle.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)32/18 : Whiles þou hast tyme, gadre riches immortale; þenke no þinge but þi soule helþe.
- a1500 O cryste Ihu (Cmb Ff.1.6)18 : To þi name hoolly y me commende..O cryste Ihu, o lorde ynmortall!
b
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.5702 : Mynerve..callid it..Athenes, þe whiche in special Is to seyn, a cite in-mortal.