Middle English Dictionary Entry
mōn(e n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | mōn(e n.(2) Also (early & N) man(e. |
| Etymology | From OE gemāna. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. imōne n.(1).
1.
(a) Companion, assistant, partner; (b) companionship, participation, assistance; in ~, held jointly, shared; (c) sexual intercourse; fleshlich ~, fleshes ~; mannes ~, intercourse with a man; wommanes ~, intercourse with a woman; (d) ? = mone n.(3).
Associated quotations
a
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)528 : Nolde he noȝt go one; Aþulf was his mone [vr. ymone].
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)6436 : Þo he was of al engelond king wiþoute mone.
b
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)1114 : Kniȝtes and squier Alle dronken of þe ber, Bute horn alone Nadde þerof no mone.
- c1300 Horn (LdMisc 108)861 : Wille ich alone, With outen mannes mone [Cmb: Wiþute more ymone], Mid my swerd wel heþe Bringen hem alle to deþe.
- c1400 Glo.Chron.A (Add 19677)6359 : In mone [Clg: Hail þou be king one! So nis it noȝt, quaþ þe king, uor mi kinedom is ymone].
- c1400(?c1280) SLeg.OTHist.(LdMisc 622)53 : Mid a fole, of þi þing ne make þou non In mone.
c
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)25916 : He wolde mon-radene habben wið þan maidene..ne mihte þat maiden his mone [Otho: imone] i-þolien.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)7/53 : Ha..eode to chirche euche daheðes dei..biddinde ȝeorne wið reowfule reames, þet he wissede hire o hwuche wise ha mahte witen hire meiðhað from mones man vnwemmet.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)8/14 : Ne mei þi mihte habben na man wið þis meiden.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)32/1 : Ham ich folhi neodelukest þe cunnið to beon cleane wið-uten monnes man & fleoð flesches fulden.
- c1300 SLeg.Edm.Abp.(Hrl 2277)89 : He com To þe ymage of oure Leuedi..And forhet bifore hire truliche wommanes mone.
- a1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)1532 : Þe ne byleuede no lyme vnpyned bote þi tonge al-one, Wiþ whan þou toke þi moder to him þat ne knew no wommannes mone.
- a1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)431/85 : Signe of loue..he made & of mone.
- c1330 SMChron.(Auch)340 : After lecherie hem gun long, And seyd among hem euerichon, Hem failed nouȝt bot mannes mon.
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)68/1922 : Ȝef þou..hast flesches mone, By lawe Alle here sybbe affinite To þe for þan schel drawe.
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)71/2020 : In spoushod beþ godnesse þre..Wanne hy wyþ-oute þyse þre Wyþ fleschlich mone megeþ [read: mengeþ]..þe wors hi beþ.
- a1350(?c1280) SLeg.Concep.Virg.(Ashm 43)212 : Ic my sulf..bihet our lord al one To lede my lif in chastete, wiþþoute mannes mone.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)6.29 : He was i-bore of þe mayde Marie by vertu of God wiþ oute mannys mone [Higd.(2): carnalle affeccioun; L humano semine].
- c1390 Psalt.Mariae(2) (Vrn)81 : Heil, vnknowen to Monnes moon, Mayden wiþ-outen make!
- a1425 Arth.& M.(LinI 150)537 : A knaue-child þer was ybore, By[ȝ]eten wiþowtyn ony monnes mon [vr. mannes mone].
d
- c1440(?a1400) Perceval (Thrn)553 : He es moste in my mane [rime: gane, slane].