Middle English Dictionary Entry
indiscrẹ̄t(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | indiscrẹ̄t(e adj. |
| Etymology | L indiscrētus |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. discrẹ̄t(e.
1.
Lacking sound judgment, imprudent; also, ignorant.
Associated quotations
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)103a/b : Also it cummeþ sum tyme when þat summe member is broken & þe member is bounden oþire constreined to faste be ane indiscrete surgene.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)147a/b : Ȝif ane indiscrete surgen se þis, he ordeineþ his medicyne drier, and so þe vlcus is euer þe longer þe sorer.
- a1450 ?Hilton Angels' Song (Cmb D.5.55)180 : If a man haue any presumpcion in hiis fantasiis & in his wyrkynges, & þerby fallis in to indiscrete ymagynacion, as it were in a frenesy..þe deuel enters in be fals illumynacions.
- a1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2:Peacock)713 : He may haue leue to..schryue hym at a noþer prest..Leste indyscrete hys prest were, Hys confessyone for to here.
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)111 : He is onrithful in his iugementis or ellis indiscrete in his gouernauns.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.319 : Indiscrete men [Trev.: men þat kouþe but litel good; L ab imperitis] supposede hym to haue the wynde in his..powere.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)7.463 : These peple entrenge into the see with indiscrete [Trev.: dronken; L temulentis] schippemen, were sette anoon on a rokke, and the schippe brake.