Middle English Dictionary Entry
invī̆sī̆ble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | invī̆sī̆ble adj. Pl. invī̆sī̆ble & invī̆sī̆bils. |
| Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Not perceptible to sight, invisible by nature; (b) temporarily invisible, unseen.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1375) Chaucer CT.Mk.(Manly-Rickert)B.3790 : God..hym so soore smoot With invisible wounde..That in hise guttes carf it so and boot That hise peynes weren inportable.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))2 Mac.9.5 : God..smote hym with a wound incurable and inuisible [L invisibili].
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Col.1.15,16 : The which is the ymage of God inuysible, that may not be seyn..For in hym alle thingis ben maad..visyble and invisyble [vr. vnuysible].
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Heb.4.13 : No creature is invisyble in the siȝt of God.
- c1400 St.Anne(1) (Min-U Z.822.N.81)213 : Herdly man lyfs none so gude Þat es of powere to se oure fude, For invisibile es my mete.
- ?c1400(c1340) *Rolle Psalter (Sid 89)148.3 : Þe prophet bigan att inuisibil thinge þat is worthier; after he settis visibil thinge þat is les worthi.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.7734 : Þat lond is callid Invisible.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)5.1866 : Us from visible and invisible foon Defende.
- a1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)8231 : Na man here moght knaw ne wytt..how God invysible es, And unchaungeable, and endles.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)343/28 : Al þis was visible to her & inuisible to alle oþire creaturis.
- 1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)1905 : My mete is inuysible & my drynk celestyal.
- c1450 Lydg.SSecr.Ctn.(Sln 2464)1548 : Off Astronomye the Secrees invisible, vnknowe with Tholomye, I faylle cognicioun.
- (c1450) Capgr.St.Aug.(Add 36704)35/6 : Þoo inuisibil þingis whech be in heuene ar vndirstand þe bettir for knowlech of bodely þingis whech God mad in erde.
- a1475 Rev.St.Bridget(3) (Gar 145)86/29 : In þe godhed is endeles beyng and vnderstondyng..& no thing is inuysibile þer-to, for it seeth all thinges.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)168/18 : Oþire sensible dedis being meenys into þe inward inuisible and insensible charite.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)9.1 : I sall loue the in all thi werkis, and tell all thi wondirs, that is, bath that ere sen and that ere noght sene, visibiles and invisibils.
- a1500(?c1400) EToulouse (Cmb Ff.2.38)543 : For all the gode þat euyr was wroght Be grete God invysybelle.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)140/25 : God schuld put a-way fro hem inuisible wolfes, scilicet, deuels.
- a1500 Craft Dying (Rwl C.894)415 : Þe suffrage of all þi chosen people of god betwene me & all myn enemyes visible & invisible.
b
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.3574 : If a man wol ben unsein, Withinne his hond hold clos the Ston, And he mai invisible gon.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.4028 : Sche..made hirselven invisible.
- c1400 St.Anne(1) (Min-U Z.822.N.81)2886 : He couthe be ay when he walde Invisibele eueray ware.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.3030 : Who-so-euer in his hond hit [an agate ring] holde..he schulde be invisible.
- c1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)1021 : Venus hadde hym maked invysible.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)6784 : Eliotropia..Maketh a man Invisible.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)428/15 : He fand a ryng, be þe whilk he made hym selfe invisible.
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)16 : Fro þat hill he went inuysible to naples.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)80/22 : There com one invisible and smote the knyght.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)10284 : I haue a certeyn ston Wherthorgh..I kan me makyn invysible Whan that me lyst.
- a1500 Ashm.1447 Lapid.(Ashm 1447)58 : Ovtalmus ys a stoune..hytt schall make the ynvysebell.