Middle English Dictionary Entry
lent(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | lent(e adj. |
| Etymology | OF lent & L lentus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Slow; mild, not severe, less than acute; ~ ivel, fever ~, a slow fever; ~ fir, a gentle fire, slow fire; (b) as noun: tardiness, delay; withouten ~.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)342/6 : Þe gummys schulen be maad neische in vinegre, & dissolued wiþ fier þat be lent.
- a1400 Recipe MS Hal.in Rel.Ant.1 (Hal 335)p.54 : For the fever lente: qwha that has the fever agu, that men calles lente evell, if the sekeman heved werkes, [etc.].
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)96a/a : Take rosine pured & clene newe wexe ana..boile hem alle togidere with a lente fire.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)61/10 : Who so hase þe feuer agewe þat men calles lente euyll..Tak euerfern þat waxes on þe ake, [etc.].
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)59.388 (v.1:p.364) : Some tyme my peyn is lent and easy [L (Graesse, p.197): lentus], and somtyme it is ovirgrevous and ovirvneasy [L: nimius], but yit is it nevir so softe to goon awey fro me, ner nevir grevous for to slee me.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)24446 : Mylk is nothyng elles..but blood, by transmutacioun thorugh hete and lent [vr. lyte] decoccioun.
- c1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)158b/b : Take þe iuys of plaunteyn..rosine coilid newe wex..seþe hem alle togidere wiþ a lente fier.
- a1450 MS Sln.2463 in EETS 102 (Sln 2463)297 n.3 : Take wolle that is bytwixe the thyes and the iowes of schepe..and put as moche water thervpon as may covere hit..and þanne boile hit with a lente fyre.
- c1500 Recipe MSS Hast.in HMC (Hnt HU 1051)1.426 : Tak ij partes of the same grete and j parte of rosyne and a lytille porcyoun of chalke, and buele hem on a lent fyre.
b
- a1500(?a1400) Torrent (Chet 8009)2461 : Furthermore, with-oute lent, They wesh and to mete went.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.53ra (2.6) : When it [morbid substance in the body] is 'frigus,' lent chyuering and afterward lent hete, be resoun of dulhede of fleume.
Note: Additional quot.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. Lent evil.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. lent fire.