Middle English Dictionary Entry
infirme adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | infirme adj. |
| Etymology | OF & L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Weak; as noun: feeble persons.
Associated quotations
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)5.m.2.4 : The sonne is cler by pure light; natheles yit ne mai it nat, by the infirme light of his bemes, breken or percen the inward entrayles of the erthe.
- c1425 Bible SNT(1) (Cmb Dd.12.39)Deeds 20.35 : Hit bihoues to receyue þo infirme [L infirmos], or þo febul, ande alsso forto þenke..þat hit es more blessed to gife þanne forto take.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)257 : The bowe of strong men is ouercome, and infirme or feble men ben gird with strengthe.