Middle English Dictionary Entry
inconvēnient adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | inconvēnient adj. |
| Etymology | Cp. noun & L inconveniens. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Injurious, dangerous; (b) inappropriate, unbecoming, unnatural; also, of an accused person: unlikely as a culprit, i.e. innocent; (c) of medicines: not appropriate, not effective; (d) absurd, illogical, inconsistent.
Associated quotations
a
- (1463) GRed Bk.Bristolpt.2.p.67 : For the which that hit please your Goode maisterschipps..to purvey a Remedy..that the seid Inconvenyent Imposicyon..might be avoyded.
- (a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)128 : Perauenture..hit shall apere that diuerse lordis..haue also moch of livelode off thair owne as than shall remayne in the kynges handes ffor his extraordinarie charges; wich were inconvenient, and wold be to the kynge right dredefull.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)122a/b : Þe mater of þis empostyme is inconuenient & contrarie to helthe.
b
- c1450(?a1402) ?Trev.Reg.Princ.(Dgb 233)439/38 : Ȝif kynges..hauen riȝtful werre..and ȝif here enemyes disturblen wrongfulliche þe pees.., it is not inconuenyent to teche hem al maner fiȝtynge of bataille.
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)130/8 : Iuge not vnto dethe the woman whiche as Inconuenient and falsely acused [F juste et innocent] of synne and blame.
- a1475(a1447) Bokenham MAngl.(Hrl 4011)13/7 : Hit is not ynconvenient, ffirst to tellyn here what Ilis they byn, where þey lyin.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)7.487 : Hit is not inconveniente to yow to desire the dignite of the fyrste stroke.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)99/24 : It ys noght inconuenient þinge hole conseill of a ȝonge man.
- c1525 Rule & T.St.Francis(2) (Fst D.4)563 : Wher soeuer I fynd his most holiest namys and wordis writen in inconuenient placis, I wille take them and gather them to gethers.
- a1600(a1463) Fortescue Title York (Jul F.6)498 : She ought handle no sworde, nor doe anie violence by might; for it were full inconvenient to womankind.
c
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)85/1 : Þese ben þe causis þat letten consowdynge of olde woundis..mys-ordynaunce of dietynge or ellis an inconuenient [vr. vncouenable; L inconueniens] medicyn to þat membre.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)146a/a : Grete lippes & harde oþer fleische þat is superflue oþer inordinate diete oþer inconuenient medicyne to þe member.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)147a/a : Ȝif a medicyne be inconuenient to a sore, þou most consider þe complexioun of alle þe bodie.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)107a/a : The causis þat lettiþ þe consolidacioun of olde woundis..an inconuenient medicyne þat is leid to þilke wounde or to þilke membre.
d
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)119b/b : It is nouȝt inconuenyent to sette..tweyne bodies..in one place ȝif one of hem is sotile and formal..& þat oþir material and vnperfite.
- a1450 St.Kath.(3) (Richardson 44)27 : What is so inconuenient and so fer from mannys resoun as to say þat iesu..shold be þe sone of god whom a virgyn shold conceyue wyth oute knowleche of man?
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)124 : That sche [Susan] was a prestir doutyr is not inconuenient, for so was seynt pernel.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)70/19 : It is not inconuenyent to graunte þat feiþ schal be in heuen, nameli, sciencial feiþ.