Middle English Dictionary Entry
infāmen v.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | infāmen v.(2) Also enfamen. |
| Etymology | OF infamer, enfamer & L infāmāre. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To put (sb. or sth.) to shame, humiliate; ppl. infamed, disgraced, dishonored.
Associated quotations
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)4.97 : Hit was doen raþer of envy that a Roman scholde do suche a triumphe, and bestes to be infamede [L infamari], thro whom he inducede grete fere to peple.
- a1500(1413) ?Hoccl.Poems PS (Eg 615)p.lix/252,269 : Thi sone him banysshed from heuen blisse, as for enfamed, he and alle his..Alle the Aungeles of thi company, That him enfamed, hath foriuged thus.