Middle English Dictionary Entry
mediocritẹ̄ n.
Entry Info
| Forms | mediocritẹ̄ n. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Moderation; intermediate state or amount.
Associated quotations
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)0a/b : In seruise of bisshopes of Rome, with which in heryng, reding, & worching y haue bene noreshed in keping mediocrite [L mediocritatem obseruando].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)81a/b : Sanie is a mene superfluite, generate of mediocrite, i. menez [Ch.(2): menehede; L mediocritate], of humours bred in to seminale or white qualite.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)28/18 : It is mannys felicite to haue temporall godes in abundaunce, but mediocrite sufficiþ him.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400 Sloane SSecr.(Sln 213)11/25 : Mediocrité of voyce, þat es to say, noþer to smalle ne to grete.
- ?c1400 Sloane SSecr.(Sln 213)14/4 : Þat man es best of mynde and wele made in kynde who has…auburn rounde blak eighne, medioker heuede…clere voyce with mediokerte þer-of.
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