Middle English Dictionary Entry
miserēre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | miserēre n. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Psalm 50 (Vulgate); miserere mei deus; (b) the recitation of this psalm.
Associated quotations
a
- c1400(1375) Canticum Creat.(Trin-O 57)1052 : Þis salme, Miserere, he mad.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)13.52 : And þanne he brouȝt vs forth a mees of other mete of Miserere-mei-deus.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)111 : Seþe hem by þe space of þis psalme seyenge: miserere mei deus.
b
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)16/2 : Ed placebo sitteð aþet Magnificat, alswa ed Dirige bute ed te lesceuns & ed te Miserere.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)27/6 : & wið þe Miserere gað biuoren ower weoued & endið þear þe graces.