Middle English Dictionary Entry
mājǒur adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | mājǒur adj. Also maiǒur, maior. |
| Etymology | L mājor |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) In names: great, greater; Inde ~ [see Inde n.(1) (b)]; (b) Fortuna ~, a star or constellation, ?of stars in Pegasus and Aquarius; (c) triacle ~, a kind of theriac (Tiriaca magna).
Associated quotations
a
- c1390(?a1300) Stations Rome(1) (Vrn)475 : At seinte Marie þe maiour þer is a chirche of gret honour.
- c1460 Ipom.(3) (Lngl 257)350/44 : There was comen into Calabre a giaunt of Inde maior, that hight Leonyn.
- a1500 Alex.-Cassamus (Cmb Ff.1.6)380 : Tapytes of selk, wrout yn Inde maiour.
b
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)3.1420 : Lucyfer, the dayes messager, Gan for to rise..And estward roos..Fortuna Major.
c
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)85a/a : Ȝeue him triacle maior and garlek ystaumpid wiþ þe iuys of Gencian.