Middle English Dictionary Entry
liquid(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | liquid(e adj. Also lequide, liqued, liquet. |
| Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Consisting of a liquid or liquids; (b) in liquid form, flowing; also, soft; of metal, wax, etc.: melted, molten; (c) fully dissolved in a liquid; (d) free, unimpeded; mevinge ~, flowing motion, free movement.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Ezek.44.30 : And the primyssis..of alle beestus first bygoten and alle liquyd sacrifices, or fleetynge, as oyle and hony and syche [WB(2): moiste sacrifices; L libamenta]..shuln be the prestis.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)95a/b : He moste be wele warre þat neiþer wyne neiþer no noþer liquide þing enter in to þe wounde.
- c1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)157b/b : Þat þe wounde schal neuere be waisschen wiþ wiyn ne wiþ noon oþir liquide þing.
b
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)57/14 : A moist discracie þou schalt knowe..bi aboundaunce of whiȝt liquide rotenes.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)82/3 : I-nowȝ do in þe oon, now in þe oþer, til þe oynement be ful maad & liquide I-nouȝ.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)203/10 : Fleuma vitreum was liquide fleuma, & wiþ cooldnes it is congilid.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)139b/b : Boile þai in wyne to þe fourme of liquide [*Ch.(2): rennynge] hony.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)50a/a : Þe vtilite whi þat humor vitreus is liquide is for ij skilles.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)130b/b : Þe gummes schal be grounden & sarsed and encorperde wiþ þe oile and þe whites of eyren to þat þe emplaister be softe oþer liquide and remewynge.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)141a/b : Þe seuenþe is flowinge of liquide quiture, þe whiche þe surgene maye not drye.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)144a/b : Vlcus virulentum in þe whiche þer aboundeþ virus þe whiche is sotil and liquid, ȝif þat it be rede..betokeniþ þat þer is straunge hete in þe sore.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)177a/b : Take comune plastre þat be lequide & leye it þer on.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)181a/b : Nerues be fourmed principallye of þe two spermes of man and of woman, þat is to seyen, of þe most liquide partie of hem, to þe whiche þer is added a porcioun of erþe to þe fortificacioun of hem.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)48/23 : Þe aposteme..putte out quitore, liquide and watry.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)306 : Lyquyde, or moyste: Liquidus, liquus [Win: liqueus].
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.1129 : Or thus: ammoniak remysse and figis With pix liquide and herdis sore ygrounde.
- (1449) Metham AC (Gar 141)527 : Abouyn this spere enchauntyd apperryd oure, more and les, As liqwyde gold brennyng in a furnes.
- ?a1450 Arderne LW (Em 69)127 : Under the nayl of the too ther came out whyte lyquyd fylthe.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)170/523 : Lat the woman make water in the on, and the mane in the oþer, and put in ech of hem a quantitee of whete branne, & nat to moch þat it be thik but at be liquyde or rennynge.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)25a/a : The firste humour, as y seide, is y-callid vitreus..he is cleer and sumdel reed, liquide or þinne.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)41a/a : So bi þis zirbus þis ilke veyne & arterie ben y-knett togideris, to whom is addid liquid & menstrue blood.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)94b/a : Þu schalt haue a similitude in cley y-congelid whanne þe moistnesse of þe part þat he haþ of watir is maad liquide and dissolued þoruȝ hete of þe sunne.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)98a/a : Put þerto þe pich and þe wex maad liquide and encorpere hem on þe fier.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)101a/b : Þinne quytture, sutil and liquide, haboundiþ.
- c1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)153b/b : And as touchinge þe knowynge of signys..it is to wite þat þer ben manye, as sumdel liquide aquosite, subrufe ouþir redisch.
c
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)136b/b : Meddel þe bene floure wiþ a quantite of wine to make it liquide.
d
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)8b/b : A muscle forsoþ is an organe of mouyng liquide, i. opne [*Ch.(2): of open mouynge; L motus liquidi], & elect.
- c1450 Treat.Perf.(Add 37790)233/30 : Thorowe the spirit of the goodnes of god, in the whiche we schalle be made liqued and stable euerlastyngly be the ioye of god.
- c1450 Treat.Perf.(Add 37790)256/6 : Anone than we fele the hete of the holye goste and the oned of god burnynge and makynge vs lyquet.