Middle English Dictionary Entry
nẹ̄de(e adv.
Entry Info
Forms | nẹ̄de(e adv. Also neade, neode. |
Etymology | OE nēde, nīede, nēade, nēode. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of necessity, necessarily; unavoidably; inevitably; ~ as ston, quite necessarily; (b) moten ~, moten..~, ~ moten, ~..moten, shulen ~, shulen..~, ~ shulen, ~..shulen, to have to (do sth.), be necessarily obliged, required or compelled; (c) he mot ~, ~ he mot, etc., he must of necessity (do sth.); the mot ~, moste the ~, theim mot ~, it is necessary for you (them), you (they) must; hit mot (most) ~, mot hit ~, ~ moste hit, etc., it must necessarily (do, be, or endure sth.), etc.; (d) ~ hit bihoveth, ~ bihoveth, bihoveth (hit) ~, etc., it is necessary, inevitable, or appropriate [see also bihoven v. 2a.]; me bihoveth ~, bihoveth the ~, etc., it is necessary, proper, or unavoidable for me (you, etc., to do sth.), I (you, etc.) should or ought [see also bihoven v. 2b.].
Associated quotations
a
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)33/8 : A feble mon..wule iseon ȝunge ancres & loki nede [Cleo: neode] ase stan, hire wlite him liki.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3165 : Ðo wurð pharan nede driuen And haued hem ðane leue giuen.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)2756 : Þo Merlin adde al þis yhurd, to þe king he wende nede.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)7351 : Þeruore nede oþ isuore, nede ibroke was.
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)5/117 : Þer der no fend acombry ous; Crist is mid ous to-same, And neade.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)11 : Of hem [sins] wyl y telle ȝow nede.
- a1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2)653-4 : Þat sacrament mote nede be done, Of a bysschope nede as ston [vr. welle y-vnderstonde].
- a1450-a1500(1436) Libel EP (Warner)146 : Than nede frome Flaundres pease of us be sought.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.43 : Men see noght þe merite of oure deed, But seyn alwey when þat fortune vs smyteth, Of oure surfet it was deserued nede.
b
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)122/9 : Hit sceolde nede gan all æfter his aȝene wille.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)ded.62 : Shollde icc wel offte nede Amang Goddspelless wordess don Min word, min ferrs to fillenn.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)13558 : Nede he shollde trowwenn wel & lefenn þatt he seȝȝde.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)8283 : Swa ich moht nu neode for muchere neode.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)1869 : Þu most nede, noðeles, an of þes twa curen.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)30/9 : Leowse þi fot þenne of mi necke..þet ich eðie mahe, & ich mot nede.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)39/3 : Hwen ȝe nede moten a lute wiht lowsið up ower muðes flod ȝeten as me deð ed mulne & leoteð adun sone.
- c1275 Þene latemeste dai (Clg A.9)97 : Nu þu schald bileuen & icht mot fare nede.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)129 : Ðis neddre, siðen he nede sal, makeð seld of his bodi.
- ?a1300 Jacob & J.(Bod 652)340 : 'Sones,' seide Iacob, 'Nede ȝe mote wende For to sech vs corn in þissen estende.'
- c1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)409 : Al mi trest is þe vpon; þeruore þu most me helpe nede.
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)75/165 : Ich mot nede do mine souereines wille.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)3443 : He moste vor feblesse nede holde him stille.
- (a1333) Herebert Þou wommon (Add 46919)43 : Ich mot nede apere Vor mine gultes here To-uore þe domes-mon.
- c1390(?a1325) LChart.Chr.A (Vrn)649/166 : A-þhurst I was ful sore I-swonken; þe beuerege moste nede be dronken.
- c1390(?c1350) Jos.Arim.(Vrn)230 : Go þou most to þi wyf; gete þou most nede A child.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl.(Manly-Rickert)E.531 : Men mote nede vnto hir lust obeye.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)1440 : No moght þan help na hali-heid, þat ga til hel þam most ned.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)3.213 : Mede & marchaundise mote nede go togidere.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)20.45 : Þere nede hath ynome me þat I mote nede abyde.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)407 : Þenne morkne in þe mudde most ful nede Alle þat spyrakle inspranc.
- (1423) Pet.Sutton in Fenland NQ 7308 : If thei be not relevyd of the seid sume, thei must nede for poverte lefe and departe fro ther tenancies.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Luke 23.17 : He moste nede delyuer to hem oon bi the feest dai.
- a1425 Arth.& M.(LinI 150)214 : Eorles, barons..Tokyn heom alle to rede, A kyng þey mosten haue nede, Al Engelond forto weore Aȝeyns heore foon.
- a1450(?c1350) Pride Life (ChrC-Dub)204 : Þogh þou be kinge, Nede schalt haue ende.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)81a : Bot and..sodein abusschementis..may noȝt avayle..þou moste nede fiȝte wiþ hem hand of hand.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)1999 : Sone, at a word, I moot go fro þe neede.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)1691 : Qwhen this Citie was set..As Priam hade purpost..Then meuyt to his mynde, as yt most nede, Þat his Cite was sure of hym selfe wroght.
- c1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)8/208 : Y may no lenger hide, parde, But that ye nede most knowen my distres.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)9326 : I muste nede Goon forth off necessyte.
- c1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)1.63 : Þat maddid þi men, as þei nede muste; For wo, þey ne wuste to whom for to pleyne.
- c1450 Eglam.(Clg A.2)792 : Þe emperour commanded þey schuld hym do, Hys wyll most nede be done.
c
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)32/529 : Help þe bihoueð ne beo hit neauer se uncumelich, & nede most hit þolien þet te þer in itimeð.
- a1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)402 : Ne drede ȝow nouȝt, ffor hit mot neode so ffurst beo.
- (c1375) Chaucer CT.Mk.(Manly-Rickert)B.3697 : An emperour moot nede Be vertuous and hate tirannye.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.1714 : Bot nede he mot that nede schal.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.2964 : The lawe..Was altogedre of goddes sonde..So mot it nede endure yit, And schal do lengere.
- a1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)8520 : He þat mychel haþ to telle, þe shorter mot nede be his spelle.
- c1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)44 : Much, maugre his mun, he mot nede suffer.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.5733 : Hir blinde sone..smyt he wot not where, As ne mote nede.
- a1425(?c1384) Wycl.Church (Bod 788)346 : Siþ Petre hadde not þis power..þis stiward of Anticrist mut nede come in bi þe fend.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)2483 : Though thou go, yitt must thee nede Thenke all day on hir fairhede.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.222 : As þe first mut nede be good, so þe toþer mut nede be yvel.
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)786 : Every speche, or noyse, or soun..Mot nede come to Fames Hous.
- a1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)218 : This science..is so worshipfulle & so selcowth, That it most nede be taght fro mouth to mouth.
- a1500 ?Ros Belle Dame (Cmb Ff.1.6)480 : If y do thyng þat sowneth vnto wele, Nede must it come from you.
d
- a1325(?c1300) NPass.(Cmb Gg.1.1)388 : Bot hit bihouit alwei so, þat me bihouit ned þar to, I am redi to þi wille.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)422 : Þe quilk tale nangat suld be mare, And nede behoued it fulfild ware.
- ?a1425 Castle Love(4) (CotApp 7)153 : Þe ferth doughter hyght Pesse..Awey ned hir bud fle, For þer contak is and strife..Þer mey Pese noght be.
- a1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)1413 : Bot euer þe priores bus nede Haue gude discreciun in hir dede.
- a1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)15/10 : Nede it bihoueþ þus to be; he þat wole haue þat lastande wele, here wiþ peyne he must it wynne.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)2309 : Nay, tene ȝow noȝt, for treuly þus tide bose it nede.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)3274 : Bicause of his pride, In-to þe dike of debonerte droune bud him nede.
- a1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2:Peacock)16 : Here thow myȝte fynde & rede That þe be-houeth to conne nede.
- c1475(?c1425) Avow.Arth.(Tay 9:French&Hale)636 : Othir flee or fiȝte: Þe tone behouus þe nede.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)611 : Seth yow be-hove nede for to go, I shall conforte my-self the beste wise I may.