Middle English Dictionary Entry
mincen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | mincen v. Also mince, minci, minse, mense, menche, mice, mis(e; p.ppl. i)minced, i)minsed, imensed, menced, miced, (error) mycd. |
| Etymology | OF mincier, mincer, mincher. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To cut (meat, onions, etc.) into small pieces; mince; also, grate or crumble (bread); ~ smal; (b) fig. to break up (a country).
Associated quotations
a
- 1381 Pegge Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)p.93 : Nym onyons and myce hem riȝt smal.
- 1381 Pegge Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)p.95 : Myse bred and schepys talwe as gret as dyses.
- 1381 Pegge Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)p.107 : Cast mycyd onyons thereto.
- 1381 Pegge Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)p.114 : Myncy onyons smal and boyle al togedyr.
- 1381 Pegge Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)p.118 : Do thereto Comyn and Safroun and flowre of ris or wastel bred mycd and grynd in a morter.
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.31 : Take..Dates ymynced.
- (1443) Will York in Sur.Soc.30133 : Also a chaffar of silver for partrich mynced.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)19 : Mynce Oynonys & caste þer-to.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)29 : Mynce Datys Smale.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)41 : Þen mence Sawge.
- a1450 Terms Assoc.(1) (Rwl D.328)604 : A plouer y mensyde.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)71 : Take fressh brawne and myce it small.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)72 : Parcely and Sauge myced small.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)153 : Take wheten bred & tost hyt..lete myce hyt smalle on a gratur.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.17 : Frye smalle mynsud onyone In oyle.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.51 : Þy stuffe of fressh befe mynse þou schalle With wyne.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)414 : Take capoun..take þe lift whynge; in þe sawce mynce hit.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)484 : In a dische besyde, þat ye þe whyngus slake, thynk [read: thyn] y-mynsed.
- c1475 Sln.4 Recipes in Rel.Ant.1 (Sln 4)324 : For to take alle maner of byrdys..take juse of dwale and menche the corne theryn; and ley yt ther the byrdes hawnten.
- a1500 Hrl.2378 Recipes (Hrl 2378)108/18 : Tak whit gynger and stamp it in-to pouder, and myse crummys of a wastel þer-to.
- a1500 Sln.521 Recipes (Sln 521)140/12 : Myis þe fyggys, and put to a litel hony.
b
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)6758 : All aboute he wasted and stroyde..All northumbirlande prouynce He thoght as croms of brede to mynce.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1400 Trin-C O.9.39 Recipes (Trin-C O.9.39) 67/24 : Strawe þeron mysed ginger and mysed clowes þat ben ysoden aforn in gode rede wyne and ysookyd wel þerynne by þe space of a day and a nyȝt.
Note: New spelling (p.ppl.) = mised.