Middle English Dictionary Entry
lōsed ppl.
Entry Info
| Forms | lōsed ppl. Also loset. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. alosen.
1.
(a) Renowned, famous; (b) ivel ~, infamous, unfavourably reputed.
Associated quotations
a
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)1.7 : Ther was a grete kyng in Grece..A losed lord was he, and of ful grete fame.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)160/23 : The good kynge Dauy..the loset of force and of vertue..was ouer-tendyre of his chyldryne.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)190/24 : The loset clerke Vegesce of kynge alexander tellyth, that [etc.].
b
- 1448 *Glo.Chron.C (Arms 58:Kooper)f.119v : After him regned Sigeberte a crewell man and wikked towarde his owne men and cowarde and vuell losed ayenst strangers.
- 1448 *Glo.Chron.C (Arms 58:Kooper)f.184v : Kyng William Conqueroure .. amonges all the lordes of Normaundye he was strengest, Of all the kynges of Englysshmen tofore him myghtyest, Of all his predecessours most worsshipfull: Wys but ffell and sleigh, Riche but couetous, Glorious but vuell-losed.