Middle English Dictionary Entry
lāmen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | lāmen v. |
| Etymology | From lāme adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To injure (sth.), wound, disable; maim (sb. or sth.), disfigure (sth.); injure (good name or reputation), damage [see also alamed].
Associated quotations
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)2755 : For his swerd he hof up heye And þe hand he dide of fleye..Hwan he hauede him so shamed, His hand of plat, and yuele lamed, He tok him sone bi þe necke.
- c1400 St.Anne(1) (Min-U Z.822.N.81)1997 : Þe thef hade a chylde ȝhong Was blynde & also had no tong, No fote apon to gan..Þe thyfe wyfe..Hyr lamed chyld in þat bath scho sett.
- a1425-a1500(?c1350) Libeaus (Kaluza)2020 : He carf adoun Libeaus stedes swire..Libeaus was sore aschamed..For..his stede was lamed.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)12705 : The kynges sone..was wounded with a spere Thorow his body..The kynges sone that so was lamed Achilles..blamed.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)286 : Lamyn, or make lame: Acclaudico.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)1600 : They sall noghte losse..Þat þus are lamede for my lufe be þis lythe strandez.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)3281 : The laste was a lityll man..His leskes laye all lene and latheliche to schewe..His lire and his lygham lamede full sore.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)3723 : To loke..Ȝif any ware lamede or loste, life ȝife they scholde.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)4302 : We hafe no laysere now þese lordys to seke, For ȝone laythely ladde me lamede so sore.
- c1440 Degrev.(Thrn)308 : Doghty Sir Degreuant..Thorow japon and jesserant..lamed [vr. lames] þaire knyghttis.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)12 marg. : For eghne lamede: Tak pure glare of an egge & hony, [etc.].
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)1836 : Gogmagog..on hym drow so strong a draught þat þre rybbes brosten in his side..Þen was Coryneus a-schamed Þat he was for þe geaunt lamed.
- a1450(1401) For drede (Dgb 102)5 : Þouȝ trouþe be dred, he nys not ashamed; Trouþe secheþ non hernes ther los is lamed.