Middle English Dictionary Entry
mid-over-nọ̄n n.
Entry Info
| Forms | mid-over-nọ̄n n. Also midde-, mide-, mid over the none, middes-, (error) mydonenen. |
| Etymology | From mid adj. & over-nọ̄n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Midafternoon, about 3:00 p.m.; heigh ~, a time close to midafternoon; (b) fig. the midafternoon of life, middle age or later; (c) middle of the period after nones, midday, about 12:00 m.
Associated quotations
a
- a1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)1546 : Hit bygan at non and ffor-to þe nyeþe tyde ylaste, Þat wolde beo, Myd-ouernon.
- a1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)434/11 : Fram þat he clupeþ non of þe day forte þe niþe tide, Þat was forte nei [vr. heȝ] mid ouer non.
- c1325(a1300) Cust.Bleadon204 : Et si pluvia impediat aruram, vel bedripes, circa meridiem, vel nonam, vel post nonam circa midovernon, debet ire ad hospitium sine allocatione aliqua et redire in altera die.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)7302 : Fram anon amorwe uorte [vr. vor to hei] mid ouer non [C: mydde ouer none], Þe bataile ilaste.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)7487 : Fram þat it was amorwe, þe bataile ilaste strong Vorte it was hei [vr. ney] midouernon.
- a1350(?c1280) SLeg.Concep.Virg.(Ashm 43)195 : Fram vnderne to mydouernon to werke heo wolde sitte..In hire beden heo wold þenne beo vorte eue wel softe.
- a1400 Ancr.Recl.(Pep 2498)75/33 : Fram vndrun to noone hij precheden, þat we clepe now myd ouer noone, þat is, þe nynþe houre of þe day, For at þat houre jesus crist died.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)5207 : Þe kyng forþ rideþ his journay..Alday he rideþ to mydouer-non.
- c1400 Wit & W.(Cmb Res.b.162)D.18 : By it was midde-ouernone -- more was it litel -- Nas noght leued one lede.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)10677 : He was two hundred mennes ban Or it was passed myd-ouer-none.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)51b : In somertyme schap þei so here journeys þat þey mowe reste in þe greet hete of þe day from vnderne to myd [vr. middis] ouer þe none, and so be liȝt of day come þere þey schul reste alnyȝt.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)222/3 : Þat daye þat he doys medysun, let hym be fastyng to mydeouernone.
- c1450 Mandev.(4) (CovCRO Acc.325/1)1543 : That daie, fro morne til mydouernone, He renneth as othir watris done, And eueri nyght hit freseth sore.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)114 : Let him be fastynge til mydouernoone.
- a1475 *Hrl.Diseases Hawk A (Hrl 2340)30a : Euery day lat hir hafe þe sonne tyll halfe wey myd morne & also aftyr myd ouyr nonne.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)74/20 : A[nd if a man nede to cast, be it in þe] mydouernone or yn þe [last houre of þe day].
b
- c1450 As y gan wandre (Lamb 853)49 : Now age is cropen on me..At mydouernoon y droupid faste; Mi lust & liking wente away.
c
- a1400 NVPsalter (Vsp D.7)36.6 : He sal lede als light þi rightwisnes, And als mid-ouernone [L meridiem] þi dome þat es.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)41a/b : Meridies: myday or mydonenen [read: mydouernon].