Middle English Dictionary Entry
arten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | arten v. |
| Etymology | L ar(c)tāre; for meaning cp. also L cōar(c)tāre. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To confine (to or in a place), fix (in a position); ~ in bondes, to fetter; refl. crowd (into a place), accumulate; (b) to restrain (sb. or sth.).
Associated quotations
a
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Ex.14.3 : Thei ben artid togidere [WB(2): maad streit; L coarctati] in a loond, desert hath enclosid hem.
- c1425 Found.St.Barth.37/27 : The forsayed pore mane, the whiche was artid in bondys.
- c1430(a1410) Love Mirror (Brsn e.9)239 : So is he [Jesus] constreyned and arted, that he may nouȝt meue but his heuede.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)14 : Artyn, or constraynyn: Arto, coarto, stringo, astringo, constringo.
- a1475 Rev.St.Bridget(3) (Gar 145)115/32 : Right as yf..alle the veynes, fulfilled with wynde, arted hem vnto the herte.
b
- c1425 Found.St.Barth.39/6 : God may delyuer vs from oure peryll: noo cownsell artyth hym.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)71/12 : Loue weried is not wery, and loue arted is not coarted.
2.
(a) To compel, force, or induce (sb. to do sth.); to induce or bring about (a result); to require acceptance (of sth.); ben arted unto, be in duty bound to (sb.); (b) to constrain or induce (sb. to accept a belief, to requite love); to induce or produce (loyalty).
Associated quotations
a
- (?1406) Hoccl.MR (Hnt HM 111)396 : My poore purs and peynes stronge Han artid me speke as I spoken haue.
- (?c1422) Hoccl.ASM (Dur-U Cosin V.3.9)388 : At the doom..Where y shal arted be to rekne of al That y doon haue & left.
- a1425(?c1384) Wycl.Church (Bod 788)360 : Þe puple shulde not be artid to ȝyve hem..almes.
- ?c1425(c1412) Hoccl.RP (Roy 17.D.6:Furn.)2153 : Goode wille me arteth take on me the peyne.
- (1430-1) RParl.4.369a : That the laye poeple of the Citee of Lincoln, ne none of hem, be arted or compelled..to make paiement.
- (1433) RParl.4.426a : That the lay poeple of the Citee of Lincoln, ne none of theym..to the payement..in eny wise be arted or compellud.
- c1440 PLAlex.(Thrn)79/31 : When we ere artede for to speke, we say noȝte bot þe sothe.
- (a1443) Proc.Chanc.in Cal.PCEliz.1.p.xliij : He artid the seyde chanon to do of his overest abygth and to don on a seculer gowne.
- (1447) RParl.5.139a : That all Boundemen..be bounden and arted to do such labours.
- c1450(c1405) Mum & S.(2) (Add 41666)1551 : Whenne rancune þe redeth to reere debatz, Or angre at attre arteth þy herte Forto commenche a cause [etc.].
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.105 : A tyraunt wolde haue arted hym be paynes A certeyn counseil to bewrey.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.171 : Arten ne constreyne [L pepulerunt].
- (1473) Doc.Edw.IV in State Papers 62 : The King wele not so straictly arte thaym to the same wordes, but that other like, not varying theffect of the matier..they shall mow sette in write.
- (1473) RParl.6.65b : So that neither the seid Marchauntez..nor any persone for theym, be from the seid xix day charged, bounde, or arted to aunswere..in any Courte Spirituell or Temporell.
- (a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)114 : Wher thurgh thai be arted bi necessite so to wacch, labour, [etc.].
- c1475-a1600(a1473) Fortescue Declaration (Clermont)533 : That euery woman is vnder the power and lordshippe of sume one man, which is alle that she is arted vnto by the forsaid Juggement in Genesis, may not be denied.
b
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)1.388 : To arten hire to love.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)2224 : Perillous is a man his feith to breke. Ffeith by necessite ne indigence Naght artid is.
- (c1456) Pecock Faith (Trin-C B.14.45)129 : God..puttith not us to a governance whiche we mowe not do..God arteth us not to eny bileeue.
3.
?To force or impel (upward).
Associated quotations
- c1450(?c1425) St.Christina Mirab.(Dc 114)124/11 : She..as an arowe..euen fro hir spirit artyd abouen right..flowe forþ as a bridde in þe eyre.