Middle English Dictionary Entry
moeble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | moeble adj. Also meble, mob(e)le, mobil. |
| Etymology | OF mueble adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Movable, changing, unstable, not fixed or stationary; (b) god (thing, catel) ~, godes moeble(s, ~ godes (thing), movable goods, personal property; ~ thinges, transient, ephemeral things.
Associated quotations
a
- c1400 *Chaucer Astr.(Brussels 4869)[1.21.] 83b : And by this conclusioun maistow take ensaumple in alle the signes, be they moyste or drye, or meble [vr. moeble], or fixe, rekenynge the qualite of the planete.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)73a/a : Wherforsoþ it [sewing] shuld not be possible And þe partie be carnous, fixe, not mobele [Ch.(2): mouable; L mobilis], be it sewed sufficiently with threde with suture of seperate punctes.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)114a/b : Which forsoþ ar moble [Ch.(2): mouable; L mobiles] & crepyng hider & þider, ar serpigines.
- c1450 Myght wisdom (Add 31042)61 : Blissede be thyn eghne..Refrenyde þay bene in breth of temperance, Noghte vacabownde in mobyll varyance.
- ?a1500 Walton Boeth.(Hrl 43)p.322 : Moble [Lin-C: all-wey present is beforn his sight Þe noble space of tymes endeles].
b
- c1390(?c1350) SVrn.Leg.(Vrn)48/420 : In þreo þinges stod pacience..in los of vre þing Meble, ded oþur lyuyng.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.300 : Þe kyng asked half of alle þer moble þing.
- c1400 Brut-1333 (Rwl B.171)185/30 : Al þe communite of Engeland ȝeue to þe Kyng þe 1. peny of alle here Godes moeble.
- (1418) EEWills32/22 : I bequethe to Ionet my wyfe..al my godes mobles, xl li. of sterlinges, and all my beddynge & naperie, and alle myne arraye & necessaries in my chambre, and alle othere meuable Godes therin beyng.
- a1425(a1400) Paul.Epist.(Corp-C 32)Heb.12.27 : Þe translacyoun of moeble thyngus as of þe maade thyngus; so þat þoo thyngus dwelle þat are vnmoeble.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)145/6 : All þe placez of oure land and all oure gudes mobill and vnmobill er commoun till ilke man.
- c1425 Treat.Sins Usury (Hrl 45)229 : Þe tenþe manere of oker is whan a man leneþ mone or oþer good vpon a wed of catel moeble to a certeyn day.
- (1429) RParl.4.344a : Neyther be..gode moeble passed be Dede..seide Lordes shal take any other monnys cause.
- (1430) Reg.Langley in Sur.Soc.169166 : Alle remenant and residewe of my goods moblez and vnmoblez..I gife fully cleerly and freely to my said son Roger.
- (1430-31) RParl.4.368b : The Thridde parte..of an hole Disme, to be paied and arezed of the moeble godes of the laie poeple of this your saide Roialme.
- c1440(a1349) Rolle 10 Com.(Thrn)12/20 : Thow sall noghte couayte þe hous or oþer thynge mobill or inmobill of þi neghtbour with wrange.