Middle English Dictionary Entry
mōte n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | mōte n.(2) Also mot & motus. |
| Etymology | L mōtus |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Astron. mene ~ (motus) [see mene adj. (2) 6.]; verrei ~ (motus), a point or angle showing the position of the center of an epicycle, and derived by correcting the mean motus by the equation of center [see Price EPlanets 93-110].
Associated quotations
- (c1392) ?Westwyk EPlanets (Peterh 75)30/21 : Than shal this blake thred shewe bothe the verrey motus (locum) of the epicicle..& ek the verrey aux of the planete in the epicicle.
- (c1392) ?Westwyk EPlanets (Peterh 75)32/29,31,33 : The mene motus of the sonne is the ark in the lymbe by twixe the hed of aries & the blake thred in the same lymbe; the verrey motus of the sonne is the ark of the lymbe by twixe the hed of aries, & the blake thred when it..is remewed fro the mene motus, & crossith the white thred in the pol of the Epicicle.
- (c1392) ?Westwyk EPlanets (Peterh 75)36/5-6 : As moche as the mene mot of the mone is more than the mene mot of the sonne.
- (c1392) ?Westwyk EPlanets (Peterh 75)38/1-4 : Yif the mene motus of the sonne is more than the mene mot of the mone, than shaltow adde 12 signes to the mene mot of the mone, & thanne maistow wtdrawe the mene mot of the sonne owt of the mene motus of the mone.
- (c1392) ?Westwyk EPlanets (Peterh 75)38/23,25,27,28 : To knowe the latitude of the mone..loke in thyn almenak the verrey motus of the mone & the verrey motus of caput dra..yif so be þt thy verre mot of thy mone be lasse than 6 signes fro caput draconis, wtdraw the verrey motus of caput owt of the verey motus of the mone & writ þt difference, for þt is hir (lune) verrey argument.
- a1500(?1397) ?Chaucer Astr.Suppl.(Dgb 72:Benson-Robinson)44.21 : That thou findest in direct wryt in thy slate under thy rote, and adde hit togeder, and that is thy mene mote, for the laste meridian of the December for the same yer.
- a1500(?1397) ?Chaucer Astr.Suppl.(Dgb 72:Benson-Robinson)45.27 : Than had I the mene mote for the laste day of December.