Middle English Dictionary Entry
mūre adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | mūre adj. Also meur(e, muer, moire. |
| Etymology | OF mëur |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. demur.
1.
(a) Sober, dignified, patient; modest, gentle, demure; (b) mature; of deliberation: careful; of grain: ripe.
Associated quotations
a
- c1390 Lord my God (Vrn)47 : Boxum me make wiþ-oute feyning..Meur wiþ-outen greuoushed, And Murie wiþ-outen wyldehed.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)254/15 : Benignite, þat is, to suffere & to be mure & noȝt veniable, ne holde wratthe in herte.
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)689 : A fair man and auncyene..mewre in face.
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)7678 : Alduinus..was meke in worde and thoȝt, In aduersite stiff and strange..Discrete in counsails..Moyre and sobyr in worde and dede.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)358/93 : Heyl moder of mercy and mayde most mure.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)370/420 : I schal do as ye me teche her thankyng god..Wyth hye repentaunce and herte most mure.
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)1.122 : Of thy tonge be free in gentill speche, Meke in contenaunce, deboneire and mure.
- c1475 Man in merthe (Brm)15 : Be mver and sad of vysage..kepe mekely þi sylens..Wher þu syttyst with þi souereyns.
- a1500 Ihesu mercy mercy (Chet 6690)141 : Þou art clennes, boþe mylde & mure..As þou were borne of virgyne pure.
b
- (1442) Let.Bekynton in RS 56.2215 : Your said counseille..purposen by commune and mure deliberacion t'acertaine your said Mageste of such inconvenients.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)85/12 : Take..of greynes Meures [L maturis]..two vnces.