Middle English Dictionary Entry
maunciple n.
Entry Info
| Forms | maunciple n. Also maunsiple. |
| Etymology | OF manciple |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) An officer or servant who buys provisions for a college, inn of court, or other institution; (b) fendes (enemis his) ~, a servant or agent of the Devil; maunciples of helle, agents of hell, servants of the Devil; (c) as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.567 : A gentil maunciple was ther of a temple, Of which achatours myghte take exemple For to be wys in byynge of vitaille.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Rv.(Manly-Rickert)A.3993 : Ther was a greet collegge..the soler halle at Cantebregge..Syk lay the maunciple [vr. mauncypele] on a maladie.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mcp.(Manly-Rickert)H.head. : Heere folweth the prologe of the maunciples tale.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mcp.(Manly-Rickert)H.47 : The cook wax wrooth and wraw, And on the manciple he gan nodde faste.
- (1402) Topias (Dgb 41)p.98 : Oones I was a manciple at Mertoun halle, and there y lernede Latyn.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)39b/b : Mancipium: a maunciple.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)19/26 : In þe mene while..happend þaim want watir, & þan þer mawnciple went vnto þe well & drew watir.
- (1458) Let.Oxf.in OHS 36344 : Þe belryngere of þe Universyte, with al there howsholdes, al catowrs, manciplis, spencers.
- ?a1475 PParv.(Win)283 : Mawncyple: Mancipium.
b
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)111/10 : Þe ȝiuere glutun is þe feondes manciple [Recl.: maunciple], ah he stikeð eauer iceler oðer icuchene, his heorte is i þe dissches.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.377 : Anon he was made þe enemyes his maunciple [vr. mancypel; L mancipium hostis], he gan to ligge and to fome..and to grynde wiþ þe teeþ.
- ?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)2.6.67b : Þe same falliþ in a iewe or in a sarecene þe whilk, are þei be cristned, ar nouȝt bot manciples of helle.
c
- (1311) Doc.Oxf.in OHS 73186 : Fulcon le Manciple.
- (1338) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms119 : Will. le Maunciple of Oxford.
- (1359) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms119 : Rog. Maunsiple tylere.
- (1406) Cart.Oseney in OHS 91201 : Will. Maunsipul.