Middle English Dictionary Entry
incorruptī̆ble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | incorruptī̆ble adj. |
| Etymology | L incorruptibilis |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of matter, the firmament: imperishable; (b) of heaven, the soul, etc.: immortal, everlasting.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)104b/a : Þe firste matiere of þe whiche þe worlde is kyndeliche Imaad is ingenerable & incorruptible [L incorruptibilis].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)105b/b : Þe firmament..is incorruptible & vnchaungeable boþe in substaunce & in schap.
- a1475 Bk.Quint.(Sln 73)2/6 : Quinta essencia superior inferior, þat is to seie, mannys heuene, is incorruptible in reward of þe 4 qualitees of mannys body.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)22a/a : Þe resonable soule is euerlastinge, in-corruptibil, & may noȝt die.
- c1400 Bible SNT(1) (Selw 108 L.1)1 Pet.1.4 : God..of his grete mercy haþ bygeten ȝow aȝeyn in-to on hope by þe arysynge from deþ to lyfe of Iesus Crist, & in-to an herytage incorruptybel, vndefouled, þat may noȝt welewe.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)8.24 (v.1:p.87) : That is neither resonable ner expedient that we shuld leeven the worde-of-God-prechyng, in which is mynistred the .. gostely fode of the incorruptible soule, and serven..at the table where is oonly sett forth the sustenaunce of the corruptible bodie.
- a1475 Bk.Quint.(Sln 73)2/5 : Quinta essencia superior, þat is, heuene of oure lord god..is yncorruptible & vnchaungeable.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)91.12 : He sall be incoruptibil and white and heghe in heuen.