Middle English Dictionary Entry
imprọ̄ven v.
Entry Info
| Forms | imprọ̄ven v. Also impreven. |
| Etymology | From prẹ̄ven , prọ̄ven; also cp. OF improuver to disapprove. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To disprove (sth.), refute; (b) to disapprove of (sth.), reject.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)166 : How euer manye suche rewlis or techingis han be tauȝt bifore þis day, alle þei ben inprovid and schewid to be vntrewe.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)416 : Summe doctouris so holden for þe same now rehercid ground, now bifore inproued.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)5 : If tho thre be sufficiently improued, that is to seie, if it be sufficientli proued that tho thre ben nouȝt and vntrewe and badde.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)562 : Vnwijs blamyng to be reproued and improued (that is to seie, to be proued vntrewe).
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)85/23 : Þilk holdyng and sentence may be inprouyd.
- (c1456) Pecock Faith (Trin-C B.14.45)146-7 : And tho writingis of hem whiche kunne not be inproved, and unto tyme thei mowe or kunne be inproved, mowe wel and ouȝte to be holde and be folowid.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)152/5 : And herbi is inprouded wel þe seiyng of manye greet and famose writers in þis mater.
b
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)366 : Onprevyn or imprevyn [Win: Inprevyn]: Improbo.
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- ?a1500 PPl.A(1) (Bod 851)8.156 : On Pers the plowman and qweche a pardoun he hadde And how þe prest inproued [Trin-C: inpugnid] it al be pure resoun.
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