Middle English Dictionary Entry
aslēped ppl.
Entry Info
| Forms | aslēped ppl. Also aslept, osleped. |
| Etymology | Ppl. of OE āslǣpan & on-. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Overcome with sleepiness, sleepy, drowsy; waxen ~; (b) asleep; ~ swithe, fast asleep; (c) in a stupor; (d) inattentive, unconcerned.
Associated quotations
a
- c1330(?c1300) Bevis (Auch)1697 : He wex asleped wondersore..And felle aslepe vpon þe pleine.
- c1330(?c1300) Guy(1) (Auch)4649 : What of wakeing & of fasting..Osleped [Cai: For-sleped] swiþe sore ich was, & lay & slepe in þis plas.
- c1330 Roland & V.(Auch)612 : Vernagu..So sore asleped was, He no miȝt fiȝt no more.
b
- c1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)100/582 : Nu heo is asleped suiþe, Þat heo ne mai come to þe.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)31 : She latteþ hem wel rest in to þe tyme þat þei ben ascleped.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)48 : Þei lyen..and maken semblaunt as þei were asleped.
c
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Hab.2.16 : Drynke thou, and be aslept [L consopire].
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Judith 13.4 : Holofernes lai in the bed, aslepid [WB(1): aslepe] with ful myche drunkenesse.
d
- c1450(c1400) Vices & V.(2) (Hnt HM 147)27/15 : But to þe werkes of God þei beþ a-sleped.