Middle English Dictionary Entry
joiǒus adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | joiǒus adj. Also joius, joieus, joieux & youse; sup. joieust. |
| Etymology | OF joios, joius, joieus, joiex, jöous. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Cheerful, glad, happy; glad (to see sb.); ~ of, glad of, happy about; (b) causing joy, pleasurable; ~ gard, name of Sir Lancelot's castle.
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 SLeg.Magd.(2) (LdMisc 108)606 : To seon hire he was Ioyous.
- c1300 SLeg.Swithin (Hrl 2277)36 : Alle men þat him iknewe, ioyous þerof were.
- a1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)213/62 : Þo þis holymen togadere come, ioious hi were & fawe.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)2600 : Þe king was iugged Ygerne to spouse; Þer of Ygerne was ioiouse.
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)118/92 : More encheyson hadde oure leuedy Ioyous and blyþe for to be.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)4683 : Charlys þanne of ys stede aliȝte &, ioyous, ys swerd out he twyȝte.
- c1390 Psalt.Mariae(1) (Vrn)759 : Þerfore vchon, as men ioyus, To him nou synge we.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.2185 : A man that is ioyous [vr. ioyus] and glad in herte, it hym conserueth florisshynge in his age.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)2298 : For now the lover [is] joyous.
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)27 : Charyte is..pacient in mekenesse, ioyeus in afflicciones, wellwyllyng to his enemyes and frendes.
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)84 : The perfyȝth felicite..[can] make man sufficiently myghty, reuerende, solempne, and ioyeux.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)5335 : Bot Cassibolan was ful ioyous Þat þis werre was ended þus.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin (Corp-C 80)18565 : Also Gaweyn was glad & joyews that he so cam to Sagramours Reskews.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)236/9 : The Palmes longe and brode, the bake nethyr ouer grete ne smale, of lytill laghynge, fayre of semblaunt, sumwhat Ioyous.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)240/8 : The good odure confortyth the Spiritis and makyth the herte oppyn and youse, and for the yoy of the herte the blode rynnyth Into the waynys throgh al the body.
b
- a1400 Rolle Encom.Jesu (Hrl 1022)186 : Þo name of Ihesu es in my mynde Ioyus sang.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)4733 : A peyne also it is joious [F joieuse] And felonye right pitous.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)4.291 : The crowne..Took first name of ioie and gladnesse, Which kynges..Vsid somtyme in ther ioious noblesse.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)5711 : Thys welle most Ioyouse Sempte vn-to me ryght graciouse.
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)70 : It was the joieust and plesaunt sighte that ever the saide citesyn Lisander had see beforne.
- c1475 St.Anne(2) (Trin-C R.3.21)187 : Solempne prayere..hath brought vs a moder most famous Of oure redempcion verrey ioyous.
- a1500(?a1400) Morte Arth.(2) (Hrl 2252)1669 : In the castelle thay gan forthe lende; The Ioyus gard that was it hyghte.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.53va (2.7) : Auctoures callen it..ioyouse colour, or elles a ioyful coloure..it seiþ þat kynde is schaply and disposed for to haue þe maystrie..in þe duel..atwene þe kynde & þe sekenes.
Note: Additional quot. New spelling: ioiouse.