Middle English Dictionary Entry
Makomet(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | Makomet(e n. Also macomete, machomet(e, mahomet, makamet(e, machamete, machamote, makemet(e, mahimet, mahumet & makometh, makameth, macamethe, macumeth & makamed(e, makemed & (error) maghnete. |
| Etymology | ML & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. maumet.
1.
(a) The prophet Mohammed; makomet(es laue, Mohammedanism, Islam; (b) a pagan god; (c) an idol; (d) ?a surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.33 : Þe fifte leuynge of Sarazynes bygan vndir Makomete [Higd.(2): Machomete; L Machometo].
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.333,336 : My sone in point is for to lete The holy lawes of oure Alkaron, Yeuen by goddes message Makomete [vr. Makamete]..The lyf shal rather out of my body sterte, Or Makometes [vr. Macometis] lawe out of myn herte.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)3.327 : Saracenes..shulle synge gloria in excelsis..Makomet [C: makamed; vrr. makameth, makemete, makameet] & Mede myshappe shal þat tyme.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)15.402 : Makometh in mysbileue men and wommen brouȝte.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)18.159 : A man that hihte makamede [vrr. makemed, makamete, makameþ, macumeþ], for messye thei hym heolde.
- a1425(?c1384) Wycl.Church (Bod 788)364 : Medle good wiþ þe yvel, for þus dide Machamete in his lawe.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.302 : And þus is Macometis lawe and conjourisons maad.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)84 head. : And of the begynnynge of Machomete.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)84/22 : Here book..is clept Alkaron..The whiche book Machamete toke hem.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)88/5 : Machomete [Man.(2): Macomete; F Machometh] was right messager of god.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)90/13 : Machamote [F Machomet] was born in Arabye.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)165/20 : He made þaim a law..whilk þat is callid Machomett law.
- c1425(a1400) Wycl.Pseudo-F.(Dub 245)301 : Þe secte of macamethe takiþ meche of cristis secte.
b
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)14585 : Nulleð heo..habben þe to kinge buten þu..afo hæðene laȝen & bilæue þe hahȝe godd & luuie heore mahimet.
c
- ?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.84.57b : I haue founden a false ymage þat men kallen a makemet in my self.
- ?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.87.59b : In þe vertue and in þe name of Hym schal þou breke doun þis maghnete of synne.
- 1607(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hrl 2124)197/285 : For Mahometis, both one and all, that men of Egipt Gods can call, at your coming downe shall fall.
d
- (1161) in Pipe R.Soc.410 : Mahumet reddit compotum de v m.