Middle English Dictionary Entry
mūāble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | mūāble adj. |
| Etymology | OF müable |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Unstable, insecure; changeable, subject to change; of fortune: fickle; of a ship: unsteady.
Associated quotations
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)prol.581 : Of that the regnes be muable The man himself hath be coupable.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.444 : Thanne hath the Schip tobroke his cable With every wynd and is muable.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)8.585 : Fortune hath evere be muable And mai no while stonde stable.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)3.822 : Either he woot that thow, joie, art muable, Or woot it nought.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)4.pr.6.47 : Alle the progressiouns of muable [vr. muuable] nature..taketh his causes..of the stablenesse of the devyne thought.
- a1500 Partenay (Trin-C R.3.17)814 : Raymound..cowde salute such estat Without colour changing or muable.