Middle English Dictionary Entry
armū̆rīe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | armū̆rīe n. Also armurē, armorie, armorē, armeri(e. |
| Etymology | Cp. OF armeurerie & armoirie. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Armor and weapons collectively, war equipment; (b) the royal storehouse of weapons and armor; armory, arsenal; sergeaunt of ~; (c) a workshop in which arms are made or repaired; (d) the tackle of a ship; (e) pl. armuries, armorial ensigns and bearings.
Associated quotations
a
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)7563 : Waines & cartes..he dede after go, Charged wiþ..cloþes & wiþ armerie.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.194 : If I may be auaile of hors or armurie, Forsoth I salle not faile to mende þi partie.
- (1400) Let.in Ellis Orig.Let.ser.2.16 : And boȝt armery at all pees, and horses, and other araement.
- c1455 Chaucer CT.ML.(RwlPoet 141)B.936 : Armery [crit.ed.: How myhgte Dauid..So yong and of armure so desolat..looke vpon thy dredful face?]
- a1486 Ordin.Lists in RS 55.1 (Lnsd 285)313 : The appellaunt and the defendaunt entrid in the listes with their armourry, wepens, vitaills, and leefull necessaries.
- a1500(?c1400) Triam.(Cmb Ff.2.38)49 : The kyng bad ordeygne hys armoryes, Knyghtys, squyers, and palfrays, All redy for to goo.
b
- (1446) Proc.Privy C.6.55 : Lettres of warrant..unto oure welbeloved squier John Stanley, sergeant of our armury, charging hym to do make and ordeigne..good and souffisant armure for the said appellant and al other harneys and wapen.
- (1450) RParl.5.198a : That this Petition..extende not ne be prejudiciall to William Bradford, and Thomas Kendall..of the office and kepyng of oure Armure, beyng within oure foure Castels of Northwales.
- (1454) Proc.Privy C.6.224-5 : Richard Clerk, yoman of þe Armurie..John Blyghton, grome of þe armurie.
- (1456) Invent.Armory in Archaeol.16123 : This is a parte of the Goods that been delivered oute of the Armore by the Kyngs Commaundement sythen the tyme that John Stanley hath been Sergeant of the Armoyre.
- (1456) Invent.Armory in Archaeol.16124 : Which been the Sergeants fee of the Armurye.
c
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)901 : Foregys and artelryis, armeryis, To ma[k]e tole, horshoon, shot & armurre.
d
- c1425 Bible SNT(1) (Cmb Dd.12.39)Deeds 27.19 : Þo þridde day þei keste oute þe armorye [L armamenta] of þo schippe wiþ þer hende, for noþer sonne nor mone nor sternes appered bi many dais.
e
- a1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)147/30 : A riche auncient paleis was beside hir .. enriched with entailed pictures, armories, and many othir thinges to the yie right plesaunt.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1484 Treat.7 Lib.Arts (Trin-C R.14.52)1051/504 : Beside thiese vij sciences ther bien other vij that bien nat cald special sciences, but rather vsual or comune craftis the whiche bien daily vsed and exercised of comune artificers and werkmen, as tilieng, venery, phisik, theatrik, lanyfice, armery, navigacioun.
- a1484 Treat.7 Lib.Arts (Trin-C R.14.52)1052/513 : Armery nat only vsith instrumentis for shippes and bataile but also makith instrumentis for the same.
Note: Glossary: "armery n. 'the trade of making and using military and naval equipment'."
Note: New sense.
Note: Cf. OED armoury armory, n., sense 5. 'The art or craft of an armourer.' Also: armourer armorer, n. 1. a. 'A maker or repairer of weapons or armour.'