Middle English Dictionary Entry
Jāme n.
Entry Info
| Forms | Jāme n. Also jam, jeme, ȝame & james, ǧemes. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) St. James (usually James the Greater); sein(t ~; -- also as personal name & in names of ships, churches, places; (b) seint ~, a shrine of St. James (usually the one at Compostella); (c) seint ~, in oaths; (d) seint james dai, seint jame tide, james tide, the feast of St. James the Greater, July 25.
Associated quotations
a
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)9/2 : Ȝef ei unweote easkeð ow of hwet ordre ȝe beon..ondswerieð of sein Iames.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)99/23 : For þi seið sein iame [Recl.: seint jame], 'Omne gaudium existimate.'
- (1381) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)4.103 : [William Fischlac, master of the ship] la James.
- (1385) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)4.184 : [Acres of land in] Seint Jamesfeld.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.3059 : For seint Iame seith in his epistle, 'Iugement with oute mercy shal be doon to hym that hath no mercy of another wight.'
- (1397) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.71 : [The following goods were taken..all from the ship] le Jamys [of Plymmoth].
- a1400(c1300) NHom.(1) Pilgr.(Phys-E)p.55 : Sain peter and sain Iam him mette.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)1.159 : For Iames þe ientil ioynide in his bokis Þat feiþ wiþoute fait is feblere þan nouȝt.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)152/9 : Þe good frere prechyd in Seynt Iamys Chapel-ȝerd at Lenne.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)256 : Iamys, propyr name: Jacobus.
- a1550 *Norton OAlch.(BodeMus 63)573 : I saide before an Image of saincte Iame that I wold never disclose his name.
b
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.466 : At Rome she hadde been and at Boloyne, In Galice at Seint Iame, and at Coloyne.
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)prol.47 : Pilgrimes and Palmers Plihten hem to-gederes For to seche seint Ieme [vrr. Iame, Iames, Ȝame] and seintes at Roome.
- a1400(c1300) NHom.(1) Pilgr.(Phys-E)p.53 : A man..til sain Iamis hit the way.
- a1400(c1300) NHom.(1) Pilgr.(Phys-E)p.54 : I mac mi vaiage Til sain Iam in pilgrimage.
c
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Sh.(Manly-Rickert)B.1545 : I thanke yow, by god and by seint Iame!
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.312 : Now by that lord that called is seint Iame, Thou shalt noght..Be maister of my body.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Fri.(Manly-Rickert)D.1443 : Wel be we met, by god and by seint Iame.
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)885 : Be seynt Jame, Now wil we speken al of game!
d
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)10278 : Pandulf and þe duraund..to engelonde come As godes kniȝtes baldeliche at gemes tid.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)152/8 : Afftyr on Seynt Iamys Day þe good frere prechyd.
- ?c1450 Brut-1447 (Trin-C O.9.1)465/4 : The Kyng held his parlement at Westminster, and it lasted till seint Jametyde, þe Appostell.