Middle English Dictionary Entry
lim n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | lim n.(1) Also lime, limme, lẹ̄me, leime & (early) leome & (error) line. Pl. limes, lẹ̄mes, etc. & lim(e, lẹ̄me & (early) limæ, leome, limen(e, lẹ̄men, leomen, leoman, lumen & (early gen. pl.) liman & (early dat. pl.) limun, limon, limæn. |
| Etymology | OE lim; pl. limu, leomu; also, gen. pl. leomena. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Any distinctive constituent part or organ of the body, a member.
Associated quotations
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)33/23 : Þa æddra and þa lime beoþ ȝefullede myd mucellere fulnesse.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)92/11 : Þeo sawle is..mid þam lichame bifangen, & on alle limæ wuniende.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)92/30 : Tactus, repung oðer grapung on alle limæn, & þæh ȝewunelycost on þam hondæn.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)92/32, 94/2 : Hire ȝedafenæð þæt heo [the soul]..ȝeornlice foresceawie hwæt heo ȝehwylcum limum iþafiȝe on wilnunge his icyndes, þæt ðær nan þing unþeawlices ne bilimpe on nanes limes þeiȝnunge.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)4005 : Himm awwnenn alls he wære a mann I manness limess alle.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)23 : Þes monnes eȝan and his fet and his hondan and his muð and his nesa and his earen..beoð þa limen þet suneget uwilene mon.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)3011 : Al þat is on liue nis nig swa dure swa me is þin an lime [2nd hand: limene] forðe min ahȝene lif.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)145 : Elche þare limene..þe hie hadde erur mide iseneged.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)197 : Mannes heued is heȝest lime and latteu.
- c1225 SWard (Roy 17.A.27)40/390 : To habben farlac of þet an, luue toward þet oðer, ant leaden him ant hinen, þet beoð his limen [Tit: limes] alle, nawt efter wil..ah efter þet wit wule.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)48/24 : Nv ich habbe sunderlepes ispeken of þes þreo limen: of ehe, of muð, of eare.
- a1250 Lofsong Louerde (Nero A.14)211 : Þet ði deað a-deadie þe deaðliche lustes of mine licame and te lawen of mine limen.
- a1300 Leuedi sainte (Add 27909)30 : Ifurn ich habbe isuneȝet mid wurken & midd muðe & mid alle mine lime siððe ich sunehi cuðe.
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)266/192 : Heo ne wawede leome non bote hire lippene vnneþe.
- a1325 SLeg.Mich.(Corp-C 145)703 : Þe brain, þe heorte..Þe liuere..Þis beoþ þe þre hexte limes þat ferst ikenned beoþ.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)47/21 : Levedi of uaire diȝtinge is arblast to þe tour, Vor hi ne heþ leme ine hire bodye þet ne is a gryn of þe dyeule.
- c1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.41 : Oiþer he is ded in erþe in his lymes þorouȝ tribulaciouns, & in þe blis he is al holelych.
- (a1382) WBible(1) Prol.Josh.(Bod 959)173/45 : We han demed while þe spirit shal gouerne þese lymys to sittyn to þe explanacion of þe prophetys.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.179 : Þe ouer lymes gouerneþ and ȝeueþ; þe neþer lymmes bereþ and serueþ; þe myddel fongeþ and deleþ aboute to oþer lymes.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.1465 : Myn herte and alle my lymes been as grene As laurer thurgh the yeer is for to sene.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)311a/b : To make odour parfyte and y-knowe in þe lyme [L organo] of smellyng, foure þinges nedeþ.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)221/33 : Þe herte & þe spiritual lymes ne mowe not longe endure wiþouten eir.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)226/20 : Þe stomak or þe lyuere or þe splene..þese lymes serueþ principaly for to norische al þe bodi.
- (a1400) *Barton's Urines (Sln 280)f.284r : Þo lymys biþ last on lyue þat were first fouremyd & aȝaynwarde.
- c1400 *Bk.Mother (Bod 416)186/24 : Ȝif lymes of a bodi haue oon passioun togedure, muche more schulde we.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.2423 : Nature..Made hem so lik..Of forme, of shap, and lymys euerychon, Þat difference in effect was noon.
- a1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)3636-7 : Bot if a lym dighe, and þe myght faile, Þat lym may noght til þe others availe.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)363/8,10 : Whanne þe fyngir, which is þe leest lyme, suffreþ ony peyne, þe heed is anguischid þerwiþ þouȝ it be þe moore worþi lyme of þe body.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)10a/a : A lyme or a particle..is a maner body þat in al wise is noȝt departed ne ioyned to anoþer.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)10a/b : Þe fatnesse, þe heeres, and þe naylles..be noght propreliche lymmes but superfluytees.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)12a/b : Þe bones beþ the hardeste lymes of all þe body.
- c1440 PLAlex.(Thrn)83/14 : Riȝte as a man here hase many lymmes, so ȝe say þare are many goddes in heuen.
- a1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)46/13,15 : I see anoþer lawe in my lymes, þat fiȝtiþ & stryueþ aȝeyn my skilful vndirstondyng, þat lediþ me as a prisoun into þe lawe of synne þat regneþ in my lymes.
- a1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)3502 : Þat body..lay..Ryȝt freysshe & rody..& euery leyme holle, bothe mest & lest.
- a1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)4898 : Of body ny of leme no corrupcyon þer nys.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)163/35 : All my lemys to werke and do In his servyse to be bayn.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)11b/a : Summe lymes in þe body ben purely spermatik as fleisch..And summe in partie enspermatik, not spermatik, as brawne & siche oþere.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)22a/a : Þese two emunctorijs beþ þe beste kept lymes þat beþ in al þe body.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)16.9 : A man has na lym that he is warere with than with his eghe.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)208/31 : Taste is a commyn witte..hit Shewyth hym most by the handys than any othyr lym of the body.
2.
(a) One of the extremities of a human or animal body excluding the head; a leg, foot, arm, hand, wing, etc.; a limb; (b) a leg of man or animal; (c) a hand; (d) one of the sexual parts of man or woman; pl. genitalia; ~ broke, affected with scrotal hernia, ruptured.
Associated quotations
a
- a1126 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1125 : Se king Henri..be bead þet man scolde beniman ealle þa minitere þe wæron on Englelande heora liman, þat wæs here elces riht hand & heora stanen beneðan.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)57/37 : Eft gyf we to lange sitteð, us slæpeð þa leomen.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.MQuad.(Hrl 6258B)18/14 : Þa wearres..ðe beoð on manes handum oþþe on oþrum lime.
- ?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1137 : Sume hi diden in crucethus..& dide scærpe stanes þer inne & þrengde þe man þær inne, ðat him bræcon alle þe limes.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)72/28 : He oncneow ðet hit idafenlice wæs ðæt he to his Drihtne mid astreahtum limum & ȝeleafan hine ȝebede.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)15611 : Nim hine..& sende hine to þan kinge, al se þu wult libben & þine limen habben.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)22306 : Wa swa bilæfden, his leomen [Otho: leome] he sculde leosen.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)23390 : Alse he wule liuien and his lumen [Otho: leomes] habben, þat he faren wið me.
- a1250 Wooing Lord (Tit D.18)283 : A! hu liue i for reowðe þat seo..mi lefmon up o rode, and swa to drahen hise limes þat i mai in his bodi euch ban tellen.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)65/26 : Me leadde him ine marhen to hongin o wearitreo & driuen þurh his fowr limen irnene neiles.
- a1250 Lofsong Louerde (Nero A.14)209 : Ich bidde and bi-seche þe wið inwarde heorte..þuruh ðe ilke rode ihalewed of þine deorwurðe limen.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)41 : Siðen hise limes arn unwelde, Siðen his bec is alto wrong.
- c1300 SLeg.Cross (LdMisc 108)367 : His riȝt hond he liet of-smite..'Þou luþere hound,' þis oþur seide, 'wel hast þou i-don bi me..For þou me hast..þat lime bi-nome, þat me hath ofte to sunne idrawe.'
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)5624 : Þat folc to drou þat traytour, ech lime [B: lim] pece mele.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1736 : Alisaundrine..In þat oþer bere-skyn be-wrapped william þanne, & laced wel eche leme wiþ lastend þonges.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Lev.1.6 : Þe skyn of þe hoost drawyn off, þe grete lemys [WB(2): membris; L artus] þei sholen kytte in to gobetis.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)3.449 : Alisaundre..heet smyte of his lemes [vr. lymes], and þrewe þe stok of his body into a pitte.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)4.275 : I wolde I were unjoynted Of every lime that I have.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)291b/a : Kynde ȝeuen to þe hare lightnesse and pliauntnesse of lymes and swiftnesse of cours and of rennynge.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)5083 : Loke alle þy lymes, fete and hondes.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)23259 : Firend bandes es þe nind..Þat al þair limes [Göt: limmes; Phys-E: lim] ar bunden wit.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)2706 : Many lyme from body kytt.
- a1425(c1300) Assump.Virg.(1) (Add 10036)129/666 : Off fote, of honde, he hadde myȝt; Alle his lymes bi come ful ryȝt.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)5.801 : This Diomede..Was in his nedes prest and corageous, With sterne vois and myghty lymes square.
- (1440) *Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)112 : Lene he was and long, Lith of lymys, loth to do ony wrong.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)26 : Pulle of þe lemys of þe Chykenys, eche fro oþer.
- a1450 Who þat liste loke (Stw 951)50/395 : A philosophre..wrote þat auoutier punysht shal be To leese a lym.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)717/9 : He was well made and clenly and bygly, and unmaymed of his lymmys.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)160/276 : I wax hevy in lyme and flamke.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)12b/b : The cause whi þer ben manye bonys in mannys body is þis, ffor sumtyme it is nede to meue oon lyme withouten anoþir.
- a1500 Agnus Castus (LdMisc 553)200/18 : If a man be brende in eny leme of hym, take þis herbe.
b
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)51/157 : Tweie crupeles þat in heore limes al fur-crokede were..leien in þe wey.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2135 : Lygurge hymself..His lymes grete, his brawnes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armes rounde and longe.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.772 : O messager fulfild of dronkenesse, Strong is thy breeth, thy lymes faltren ay.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)7.180 : And lame menis lymes [vrr. lemes, lemmys; leggis] wern liþnid þat tyme.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)701 : Euery man in this world yborn..may not gon, his lymes be so softe, Bot as his moder bereth hym alofte.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)116/33 : Summe han here armes or here lymes all tobroken, & somme the sydes.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)14.248 : Here Armes from the body he smot tho, Here hedes Offe, here lemes Also.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)23.364 : He fyl Adown, That he ne myht steren foot ne hond, Nethir non lyme where-Onne to stonde.
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)181/3 : Ȝef a man hawe sor in hys feet or in hys lemys for trawalye, tak þe jus of þis herbe.
- a1500(c1445) Lydg.Mir.Edmund (Ashm 46)31 : Tendre of lymes so as he myght goon.
- c1600(c1350) Alex.Maced.(Grv 60)1120 : Many lockes wer laft his legges aboute, That hee [the horse] nas loose in no lime ludes to greeve.
c
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)7.117 : We haue no lymes [vr. lymmes, lemys, lemmes; hondis] to labore with.
- (?1406) Hoccl.MR (Hnt HM 111)31 : Had I thy power knowen or this yore..Nat sholde his lym han cleued to my gore.
d
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B:Berberich)75.19/1 : Gif wyf on ða ȝecundelican limon þolian flewsan ðæs wætan, min [read: nim] þeos wyrt ȝesodene.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)6275 : Nakede heo weoren, and naðing ne rohten wha heore leome sæȝe.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)87 : On þe ehtende dai after þe childes burde, þe frend shopen þe child name, and mid stone þe for þe nones was maked for to keruen þat fel biforen on his strenende lime.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)352 : Ðo gunen he [Adam and Eve] same sriden, And limes in leues hiden.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.195 : We sighe in Affrica a mayde..itorned into a man..and anoon hadde alle lymes as a man schulde haue [L virilia produxisse].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)27b/a : Hit were vnsemelich and schameliche to vnhele þe priuey lymes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)216b/b : Þe gomme of þe tree..heleþ hem..þat beþ lyme broke [L herniosis] so þat þe guttes falleþ in to þe bagge of þe genetrase.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)2023 : Naked o þat lime [Frf: lim; Trin-C: lymme] lai he [Noah], Þat man think mast scham to see.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)20.194 : For þe lyme [vr. leeme] þat she loued me fore, and leef was to fele..whan we naked were, I ne myght in no manere maken it at hir wille.
- a1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)19/26 : God haþ ȝyuen cloþing to man..his schameful lymes to hil & to hide.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)32/16 : Lac virginis..is good for sawslem, skabbe, and mannys lymys.
3.
In phrases: (a) ech (a) ~, in every part of the body, all over; lippe and ~, ~ and hed, all parts of the body; peine of ~ and lond, penalty of mutilation and loss of land; (b) bothe in lith and ~, bothe) ~ and lith, bothe) lith and ~, everi ~ and lith, in (of) ~ and lith, in (of) lith and ~, lith nor ~, nother lith nor ~, with ~ and lith [see lith n. (1) (f)]; fro lith to ~ [see lith n. (1) (a)]; (c) ~ from ~, limb from limb; heuen (renden, tolithen) ~ from other, to cut or tear one limb from another; riven (toriven) ~ from ~, dismember (sb.); drauen (renden) ~ from (for) ~, fig. dismember God or Christ with oaths on parts of the body; (d) lif and ~, ~ and lif [see lif n. 1c. (a)].
Associated quotations
a
- c1330 Roland & V.(Auch)493 : When he seiȝe him go, He biheld him ich a lim.
- a1400 Cursor (Frf 14)5196 : Vp he lep..wiþ-outen any help of sone, þat quake ilka lime was wone.
- a1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)12837 : Quen iohn him sau..For drede ilk lim [Trin-C: vche lym] he quoke.
- a1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)15759 : Iudas ilk lim [Trin-C: vche lymme] he quoke.
- a1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)13773 : Of what sekenes so was on him, He shulde be heled vche a lym [Göt: ilk a lim].
- a1425(a1400) Titus & V.(Pep 2014)1644 : Ȝif þou wolt wel leue on hym, That he may hele lippe and lym, I waraunte, he schal hele þe.
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)146/2 : Peyne of lyme and lande, Stente of youre steuenes stoute.
- c1450 Whanne marye was greet (Lamb 853)71 : Saue þee harmelees, lyme & heed.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)50/26 : I ete well, and blyssyd hym; And he is blyssed, ich a lym.
b
- c1390(1377) Death Edw.III (Vrn)93 : He is ful lyflich in lyme and liþ.
- a1425 Arth.& M.(LinI 150)1863 : Fortager was traytour in lym and lyth.
- a1500(?a1400) KEdw.& S.(Cmb Ff.5.48)1075 : Hit is þe Kyng þat spekis to þe, May do þe what his willis be, Berefe þe lym and lithe.
c
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)4227 : Stater heo nome, & al hene to-liðeden lim [Otho: leme] from þen oðere.
- a1425(?c1375) NHom.(3) Leg.(Hrl 4196)21/79 : A lion..rafe him sunder ilk lim fro lim.
- c1425 Treat.10 Com.(StJ-O 94)16 : He þat sweres custumnabully..& drawes lymme from lyme of oure lorde ihesu criste.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)304 : Lythe fro lythe, or lym fro lym: Membratim.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)630 : Þe former of euery creature Didmembred y with oþes grete, & rente Lyme for lyme, or þat I þennes wente.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)127/15 : Rathre..I shall haue euery lyme of me hewen frome othre.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)267/306 : That shall gar hym brest..and all to-ryfe hym lym from lym.
- a1500(1465) Leversedge Vision (Add 34193)25 : The abominable and multitude of deuelis was innumerable..tormentyng and tering my seid saule as they wolde have rent on lym of hit fro a nother.
4.
(a) A Christian or good man considered as a member of the body of Christ; cristes ~, ~ of crist (holi chirche, the regne of god); also, by analogy, a follower or agent of the devil, a heathen, a sinner; antecristes ~, develes ~, fendes ~, ~ of satanas (antecrist, the fend); (b) a social dependent, a liegeman; (c) hores ~, a follower of whores; theves ~, a member of the thieving fraternity.
Associated quotations
a
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)10/15 : He astah ða ane, ac him æfter fuliȝdon his aȝene limæ up to þam heafdo.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)100/27,29 : Crist is alle haliȝe monnæ heafod, & alle haliȝe men beoð his limen; & deofel is eac alle synfulle monnæ heafod, & alle sunfulle men beoð his limen.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)100/33 : Crist..walde þurh deofles lime, þæt is þurh sunfulle monnæ honden, lichamlice deaþ ðrowiæn.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)27/5 : Ic am Crist..ðe aure ðis belieueð..hie sculen bien mine lemen, and ich here heaued.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)4/4 : Margarete..feht wið þe feond & wið his eorðliche limen.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)184/16 : Nis godd ure heaued & we his limen alle? Ah nis euch lim sar wið sorhe of þe heaued?
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)456 : Þe clerkus þat beoth I-ordeynede..berez a signe Þat heo beoth lymes of holi churche.
- c1300 SLeg.Magd.(2) (LdMisc 108)166 : Seint steuene to deþe huy stenden..And manie Men huy flemden, þat cristes limes were.
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)1409 : He..A deueles lime hus bitawte, And al his lond and al hise authe.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)8497 : Godes kniȝtes made..Ihesu cristes cite [Jerusalem] of the deueles limes clene.
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)23/613 : Þou takest hyt [the sacrament], man, ȝef þat þou art A lyme of holy cherche.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)182/5 : Þe zixte viȝt..is a-ye þe kueades þet byeþ ine þise wordle, þet byeþ þe lemes of anticrist þet werreþ þe guode men be hare strengþe.
- c1390(c1350) NHom.(2) PSanct.(Vrn)106/136 : Þe ȝates of helle beo cleped here þe deueles limes þat ben and were, þat him dude muche turmentrie.
- c1390 NHom.Narrat.(Vrn)275/1 : Cristes limes pore men are, And ȝif we hem helpe, crist we smere.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.136 : Biforn that tyme that ye synned, ye were the children of god and lymes [vrr. lymmes, lemys, lyme] of the regne of god, but for youre synne ye ben woxen thral and foul and membres of the feend.
- a1400(c1340) Rolle Psalter (Hat 12)8/13 : For til hym [God] þai make þaime contrarie and acordes þaime til synne; Many, þat es, fendes and þe fendes lyms [vr. lymmys], rises ogaynes me.
- c1400 St.Anne(1) (Min-U Z.822.N.81)3005 : Men traueland wyth deuels two Out of þer wyt war clene..Ihesus bad, 'come out, þu delves lym.'
- a1425(?c1384) Wycl.Church (Bod 788)339 : Ech man..shulde suppose þat he be lyme of holi Chirche.
- a1425(?c1384) Wycl.Church (Bod 788)357 : It falliþ ofte bi þis lawe þat a tryaunt and a fendis lyme is put bifore a lyme of Crist.
- a1425 NHom.(3) Leg.Suppl.Hrl.(Hrl 4196)83/212 : A, lym of Satenas, þi sire!
- (1428) in Rymer's Foedera (1709-10)10.408 : A Disciple and Lyme of the Feende, called the Pucelle, that used fals Enchauntements and Sorcerie.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)417 : Thei bacbiten and detracten the clergie, cleping the hiȝe pope anticrist and cleping alle the othere louȝer rehercid statis aboue preestis the anticristis lymes or membris.
- a1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)422 : For crist on cristyn folk es heued, And we his lyms.
- c1425(a1400) Wycl.Pseudo-F.(Dub 245)323 : Þus resoun moueþ men to suppose þat crist telliþ of gilis of þe pope, & aftir of gilis of þise new sectis, for alle þise ben lemes of antecrist.
- a1500(?a1325) Otuel & R (Fil)2648 : Turpyn and tybaut Made a swythe noble sauȝt, To slen the fyndes lemes.
- a1500(?c1378) Wycl.OPastor.(Ryl Eng 86)422 : We gessen þat þis man þat holdiþ wel cristis lawe is a leme of hooly chirche.
- a1500(?a1425) Chester Pl.Antichr.(Pen 399)341 : Say, thowe verey devuls lyme..mony A sowle thowe decevys.
b
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)363/12 : A proud man..seeþ hise pore lymes seek & febled, þat is, poore folk.
- c1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)2.62 : Whan ȝe list to lene to ȝoure owen lymes, Þey were so feble and feynte..Þat þey had no myghte to amende ȝoure greues.
c
- a1225(OE) Lamb.Hom.VA (Lamb 487)103 : Fornicatio..maceð of cristes leoman heoranna leoman.
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.91 : Cristis purses beres he with Judas, yat thevis lymme.
5.
Miscel. senses: (a) a branch or part of a subject of discourse; (b) a sea that flows into the ocean, an arm of the sea; (c) a projecting corner of a siege tower.
Associated quotations
a
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)154/21 : Twa þinges neomed ȝeme of schrift..Þis beoð nu as twa limen [Nero: limes], & eiðer is todealet.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)156/5 : Loki we nu ȝeornliche hwuch schrift schule beon þe beo of swuch strengðe; & forte schawin hit bet, deale we nu þis lim o sixtene stucchen.
b
- c1300 SLeg.Mich.(LdMisc 108)637 : Þe gret se of occean..Is more þane al þe eorþe beo..Ech oþur se a-mong us here, ne beo heo so gret non, Nis bote a lime of þulke se, and þudere In huy goth ech-on.
c
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)2467 : The muscul eke is good, the way to mende, For eny thing, of tourys ambulary..At euery lyme herof ar hyge whelys.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1400 Sln.468 Cook.Recipes (Sln 468)87.20/5 : To make chicones in mose: Tak blaunched almaundes & grynde hem smale & tempre hem…& do hem in a pot & put þerto floure of rys & sugre & salt & safroun, & boyle hem togedere…& tak rosted chikenes & tak þe lemes & þe wynges & þe braun & cut þat oþer del on lengthe & ley it in þe disches with…clowes & serue it forth.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)13a/a : For summe [boonys] defenden þe principal lymes from harme as þe brayne panne & þe brayne.
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Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. limb.