Middle English Dictionary Entry
lārẹ̄w n.
Entry Info
| Forms | lārẹ̄w n. Also lareow(e, lareaw. |
| Etymology | OE lārēow |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. lore & theu n.(3).
1.
A teacher, preceptor; leader, master.
Associated quotations
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)2/5 : We witen, leof Lareow, þæt ðu from Gode come.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)2/22 : Ðu [Nicodemus] eart æþele lareow on Israela ðeodæ.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)4/31 : Ðeah ðe messepreost manful beo on life, & he child fulliȝe on þam soðe ileafan..ne sceal þæt cild eft siððan beon ifylled æt bætere lareowe.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)16/7 : Sum haliȝ biscop wæs ihaten Gregorius, swiðe mycel lareow on mycele þingðum.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)62/5 : We habbæð ure lareow Moysen þone heretoȝæ, & we his leorningcnihtes beoð.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)86/29 : Uðwiten, þæt beoð wisæ lareowæs, secgæð þæt ðare sawle ȝecunde is þreofeald.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)7233 : Judisskenn læredd follc, Bisskopess & larewess..unnderrstodenn all off Crist Þatt witess haffdenn cwiddedd.
- a1225(?OE) Vsp.A.Hom.(Vsp A.22)241 : Sanctes paulus..is þeoden lareaw.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)39/4 : Hit is hare meoster þe beoð ouer oþre iset & habbeð ham to witene as hali chirche larewes.