Middle English Dictionary Entry
monei(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | monei(e n. Also monai(e, monnei & monoie, monnoi(e, moinai & monẹ̄ & moni(e, monni & (error) mon. |
| Etymology | OF moneie, monoie, monee. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Money: (a) as a general medium of exchange; funds, means; profit, proceeds; chef ~ [see chef]; borwen..~, to borrow money (from sb.); maken ~, earn money; tellen ~, count money; odde ~ [see odde]; (b) coinage; the coinage of specified countries; money of specified denominations; counterfeit coinage; also fig.; blak ~, copper, brass, or iron coins; whit ~, silver coins or copper, brass, or iron coins covered with silver; fals ~, counterfeit money; mark of..~, image stamped on (that) money; ~ of a molde, uniform currency; ~ makinge, ?counterfeiting; (c) a coin; blak moneies; two litel monies; ~ chaungeour, one who provides domestic coins in exchange for foreign.
Associated quotations
a
- a1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)138/41 : Nabbe ich..oþer moneie bote mi sulue her.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)6968 : King Vriens & his kniȝtes..Token al þis riche praie, Pelles, purper, gold, & monaye.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)3 Kings 21.6 : Ȝif to me þi vyneȝerd, þe monee [WB(2): money; L pecunia] taken, or if to þee it plese, y schal ȝifen to þee a betere vyneȝerd for it.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.703 : Vp on a day he gat hym moore moneye Than that the persoun gat in monthes tweye.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Sh.(Manly-Rickert)B.1478 : Ye knowe..Of chapmen, that hir moneye is hir plow.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Sh.(Manly-Rickert)B.1528 : Vn to daun Iohn he first goth hym to pleye, Nat for to axe or borwe of hym moneye.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)181a/a : Plente of moneye..and chaffare cometh ouȝte of dyuers londes and cuntreis in shippes to þat londe.
- a1400(c1250) Floris (Eg 2862)345 : Þow mast me fynde..Seuen horses al of prys..twoo ycharged with moonay For to spenden by þe way.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)prol.60 : Manye of þise maistris may cloþe hem at lyking, For here mony & here marchaundise meten togidere.
- (a1402) Trev.Dial.MC (Hrl 1900)22/9 : Þe bischop wente vp into þe tresory and helde out & tolde þe money þat was founden in Goddes hous.
- a1425(?a1350) 7 Sages(2) (Glb E.9)1337 : Þe fader went in to feche tresoure; He findes a bag ful of mone.
- a1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)39/5 : Þe podagre fro þi feet schal be þe ferþer &..þe phisisian schal haue þe lesse of þi moneye.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)87/12 : When þai hafe mister of any monee for reparailyng of þaire kirk..þai ga to þat ilke poonde.
- c1425 Treat.Sins Usury (Hrl 45)229 : The fifte maner of oker is when a man leneþ siluer or other money þat he haþ to kepe of oþer mennes and takiþ oughte to himself for the lenynge or boroweþ money for oker.
- (1431) Doc.in Flasdieck Origurk.99 : For the greet and notable sommes..the whiche vve owe hym yit in trevve dette for monnoye lent..We..haue yeven..an annuite.
- ?a1440 Hortus (Brist-U)271 : Cruma uel crumena: a purs or sak of mone.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)2343 : Here are the kystis..Mette full monee þat ȝe haue mekyll ȝernede.
- (1443) Will York in Sur.Soc.30132 : I bequethe to Baudewyne Wilughby..a some of mone that is comprehended in my wille.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)456 : In þe first fisch which he schulde take he schulde fynd a certeyn weiȝte of money.
- (1446) Proc.Privy C.6.48 : The said somme of monoye everich of theim wol send..by such a persone..as he trusteth on..And the King wol and chargeth the said commissaires that such sommes of monnoy as..be paied and borowed, that they make therof a bylle.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)41b : It nediþ to euery legioun to haue acountes..of summes of money resceyued and spendid.
- a1450 Mandev.(3) (BodeMus 116)25/24 : In that weie schal men fyndyn ostelries..where men may hauyn for here mone vytailis necessarie to beye.
- a1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)1306 : He wexe marchaunte amys þat þe money fenged To sille so precyous a prince.
- (1460) Paston (Gairdner)3.203 : Y shall nothing take from hyr more then a litell spendyng money.
- (1465) Procl.Edw.IV in Archaeol.12404 : The scarcite of money within this his reaume..caused of lak of bryngyng of bolion into his myntes.
- (c1470) Stonor1.108 : I wull make money off my oxyn to kepe with my promys.
- (1472) Doc.in Sur.Soc.8523 : Ya sall not deny no por man nor woman..when yt ya com tharfor for yar monny.
- (a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)119 : Often tymes for lake of money the kynge shall be fayne to gyf awey his lande.
- c1475 Rwl.Prov.(Rwl D.328)p.124 : The grehoun stode hym be-fore, mony for to tell [L nummos numerando].
- a1500 Fasc.Mor.in Silverstein ELyrics (Rwl C.670)p.80 : But of this mone what is our rede..The dede kepes of no mone.
- a1500 St.Jerome (Lamb 432)356/20 : Ther myght none entre to abyde in that abbay, but yf she brought a certayne summe of monney with her.
b
- a1325(?c1300) NPass.(Cmb Gg.1.1)160 : Þei iyef him..Þrythi plates of god mone.
- c1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)942 : Marke schuld ȝeld vnhold..Of mone of amold Þre hundred pounde of latoun.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)26/7 : Þo byeþ wel foles, uor of guod metal hy makeþ ualse moneye.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)152/28 : He makeþ þane scele be mesure speke..zuo þet þe speche come raþre te þe uile þanne to þe tonge, Þet hi by y-weȝe ase guode moneye and yproued.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)4846 : Muche was þe tresour þat þay founde þan, of gold & syluer & ryche stan, & monaye whyt & blake.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)4.2448 : Saturnus..fond the weie..to coigne the moneie Of sondri metall.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.238 : Now turnes Edward ageyn to London his cite, & wille wite certeyn who schent has his mone.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)15.343 : As in lussheborwes is a lyther alay and ȝet loketh he lyke a sterlynge, Þe merke of þat mone is good, ac þe metal is fieble.
- c1400 Brut-1333 (Rwl B.171)148/17 : Þe iiij ȝere of hes regne..he chaungede his mone.
- (1412) in Salzman Building in Engl.489 : Katerine and William sall gif unto the forsaide Richarde tenne markes of mone.
- a1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)7/35 : King Edward..At Andwerp..made his mone playne, Þat no man suld say þare ogayne.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)157/26 : This Emperour..not despendeth ne maketh no money but of lether emprinted or of papyre.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)117/17 : Þis monee es prynted on bathe þe sydes.
- c1440 HBk.GDei (Thrn:Horstmann)305 : Ellis oure dedis are noghtes bot als false moneye whare-with mene may noghte by.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)543 : Bi the religioun of Seint Fraunces the religiose persoones of thilk religion schulen not handle..eny money; that is to seye, eny gold or siluer or othere metal koyned.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)26.371 : The fourthe hors..was Charched with diuers Mone With hem to have In Eche Contre.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)8996 : Y schal gyue þe a þousand pound of god mone.
- a1450 Mandev.(3) (BodeMus 116)83/1 : He asked for to haue alwoy ful his pors of mone of gold.
- c1475(a1400) Amadace (Tay 9)p.32 : A marchand..Hade..euiryche ȝere thre hundrythe pownde Of redy monay and of rowunde.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)12904 : Þei myȝt sell þe hed of an asse for xviii pennys of mone.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)15/28 : He had a monk in his place þat vsid for to cone mony vnder-nethe þe erth.
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)53 : Þe first mony þat was mad of siluyr was mad be his a uys, for he made þe werkmen to graue þerin his ymage and write þerin his name.
- (1452) Doc.in Kingsford EHist.Lit.(CotR 2.23)368 : He was taken at Derby with money making and ladde to London.
- (1458) Will York in Sur.Soc.30225 : Sir Thomas Chaworth delyvered hym the xx marc..neverthelesse he promised theym yat the mon shulde not be delyvered or thai hadde thair obligacon of Dame Margaret Rempston.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)17610 : Thys hand kan forge..ffals monye.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)17614 : Thys hand in frenshe..Ys callyd 'Poitevyneresse', ffor yt forgeth..A monye callyd Poytevyn.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)370/5 : The parte lettyng shold pay..c shillings of sterlynges of lawfull and vsuell money rynnyng in Inglond.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)142 : That yere was grette scarsyte of whyte mony, that men myght unnethe have any golde changyd.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)226 : They waytyd dayly and howrely for mony that thys Taylebosse shulde have send unto hem or brought hyt; the summa was iij ml. marke.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)479 : I haue a grett purse, ser, but I haue no monay; By þe masse, I fayll to farthyngys of an halpeny.
- a1500(1396) Indent.Francisc.in RS 4.1 (Vit F.12)526 : The sayd Mayer bynds hym..to paye yerly vn to the sayd Wardyn..xl d. of good and lawful mony of Yenglond.
- a1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)116 : Fals plate þei make as thei can, Or monay to begile som good trew man.
- -?-(1471) Will in Som.RS 16221 : I bequethe to my father John Dekyn my best gown and my best hode, and in money 40 s.
c
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)10708 : Þe men of þis lond gret raunson him bere, Þe vifteþe peni of al hor god & blake mones.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Luke 21.2 : He syȝ also sum litel pore widowe sendynge tweie litle moneys [L aera minuta], ethir a ferthing.
- c1400 WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)John 2.14 : Money chaungeris [Dc 369(2): he fond in the temple men sellinge scheep..and chaungeris sittinge].
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)222/73 : Tabillis full of tresoure lay..Of oure cheffe mony-changers.
2.
(a) Wealth, possessions; money for subsistence; wages; povre of ~, lacking wealth; mammones ~ [see Mammon]; mete and ~, food and wages; moebles and ~, movable property and money; moneies unnombrable, untold riches; mouled ~, molded (i.e., hoarded) money; wantoun ~, wasted money; (b) in proverbs.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ecclus.10.10 : No thing is more wicke þan to looue monee [vr. moone].
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))2 Mac.3.6 : Symont..tolde to hym the tresorie in Jerusalem for to be ful with moneys [WB(2): richessis] vnnoumbreable.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.379 : I triste in oure Lord þat money schal nouȝt faile us [Higd.(2): we schalle not wante goodes] at oure nede ȝif we doo oure tresour in hevene.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.610 : So have thei bothe litel joye As wel of love as of monoie.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.4377 : Ther is yit on of thilke brood Which..To make a Tresor of Moneie, Put alle conscience aweie.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)1.42 : Þe mone [vrr. mony, money, monoye] on þis molde þat men so faste holdiþ, Tel me to whom þat tresour apendiþ.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)7.185 : Pieris..ȝaf hem mete & monie as þei miȝte asserue.
- a1425 PPl.C (Cmb Ff 5.35)7.73 : Moneye [Hnt: Oþer, þorw myghte of mouthe oþer þorw meny sleyghthes, Venged me fele tyme].
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Luke 18.24 : How hard thei that han money schulen entre in to the kyngdom of God.
- a1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)5570 : Þar-for þe ruste of þat moweld mone Agayne þam þan sal wittnes be.
- a1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)35/25 : As þou art pore of money, be pore of spiryȝt, & þanne haþ Crist be hight þe þe kyndom of heuene.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)285/5 : Se her possessiouns and abundaunce of money þat þei kepe pryuely departid fro þe comown charite.
- c1425 *Wycl.Concord.(Roy 17.B.1)99a : Money be wiþ þee into perdicioun, act. eiȝtþe cap.
- (1447) Doc.in Leach Educ.Chart.419 : The Maisters wexen riche in money, and the Lerners pouere in connyng.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)687 : O wher is now al þe wantoun moneye That I was maister of..Whan I knewe nat what pouert was to sey?
- (1450) God be oure (Magd-O Charter Misc.306)4 : Who-so-euur say nay, ffalse for ther money reuleth!
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)11511 : Euery buerne in þis burgh þat is best storit Of meblys & money & of main syluer, Helpis now hertely þis harme to redresse.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)82a : Mony: Census.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)208/5 : The baronys ben as soudyorus sustenyd by mony; money is fortune y-gaderid of Subiectis.
- c1600(?c1395) PPl.Creed (Trin-C R.3.15)289 : He hadde more money hid þan marchantes of wolle.
b
- c1450 Dc.Prov.(Dc 52)p.55 : Powre mennys mony is fast jknytt.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)252/625 : Mony makyth schapman.
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)1.550 : Euer monye maketh the marchaunte.
- c1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)666 : Wo wyll haue law must haue monye.
3.
(a) A bribe; also, a reward; for mede ne for ~, neither for reward nor for bribe; (b) a fine, a ransom; goods acquired by extortion or exaction; punishinge of ~, exaction of a fine; (c) money or wealth obtained by simony, usury, or deception.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Judg.16.18 : Takyn-to þe monee þat þei behiȝtyn, & sche made hym slepyn vp on hir knees & in hir bosum to leyn þe heued, & sche clepede þe barbour.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.1834 : The Priest Thoas..for monoie Of Antenor which he hath nome, Hath soffred Anthenor to come And the Palladion to stele.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)3.269 : Brenne it; bere it nouȝte awey..For mede no for mone.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)3.170 : To be maried for monye, mede hath a-sented.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)4.265 : Vnkyndely þow, conscience, consailedest hym þennes, To lete so hus lordshup for a lytel moneye [vr. mede].
- ?c1430(c1400) Wycl.Serv.& L.(Corp-C 296)241 : Prelatis..fauouren hem in synne for moneye.
- c1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)28/3 : Sche with money corrumped the prestis of the lawe.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)15681 : Yt was neuer for moynay þat þou so sone suld send hym þat our beld suld be and fro fawt vs defend.
- c1425(a1400) Wycl.Conf.(Dub 245)331 : Þus þe pope myȝt..make couenaunt wiþ þis prest, þat he assoyleþ no man but if he ȝyue so myche mone.
- c1425 Wycl.Antichr.(2) (Dub 245)p.cxlix : He takiþ to hise officers..couetouse, lecherouse..to proue testamentis for litel soule heele, to sett þereon her syngnet for a certeyne moneye.
b
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.246 : Þei wer out of þe tour delyuerd for mone; þer held þei long soiour, bot penies mad þam fre.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)28a/b : Flecto: to wrynge monye.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)2.76 : Þis falliþ in chapitre lawe, and ech punishing of monei.
c
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)3.232 : Prestis..Þat take mede & money for massis þat þei synge Shal haue mede on þis molde.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)290/5 : Thou hast not disposid þi þrote for to wynne soulis by teching, but to deuoure soulis by moneye takynge.
- (c1426) Audelay Poems (Dc 302)115/112 : Makers of mone with cursid entent, with wrong mokerers, false mesurs, and vsere..etin here tung, Fore þai foreswere ham wettanly.
- c1425(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)58 : Þus crien monkis..prestis singing for money.
4.
Image, likeness; -- mistranslation.
Associated quotations
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.81 : Þere is also Iulius Cesar his money [Higd.(2): pryntes of Iulius Cesar; L Numismata quoque Julii Cæsaris] wonderliche in stones i-graued.
5.
In surnames.
Associated quotations
- (1284-5) Feudal Aids 4272 : Thomas le Mony.
- (1328) Sub.R.Der.in Der.ANHSJ 3054 : Johes Monythew.
- (1335) Rec.Crondal in Hamp.RS 330 : Johannes le Moneye.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.218 : He cam into þe temple of Ierusalem & þer he fond men byynge & sellynge oxsyn and schep and dowys to ben offryd in þe temple and chaunchourys of monye also to be offryd in þe temple.
Note: New form: Also..chaunchour.
Note: Quot. postdates sense 1.(c). Add "chaungeour of ~" after "~ chaungeour" in sense 1.(a).
Note: The list of variant spellings in the form section may be incomplete and /or may need revision to accord with standards of later volumes of the MED.--notes per MLL