Middle English Dictionary Entry
neue-cǒmen ppl.
Entry Info
| Forms | neue-cǒmen ppl. Also -com(e, -commen, -cum(e(n, -cummen & neow cumene, neowene icumene, neawene icome. |
| Etymology | From neue adv. & cǒmen, icǒmen, p.ppls. of cǒmen v., icǒmen v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Recently come, just arrived; (b) recently returned; ~ ayen; (c) as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)8562 : Cassibellaune..lette..cuðen his kempen þa tiðende neow-cumene [Otho: þes neuwe tidinges].
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)29777 : Heo beoð neowene icumen [Otho: neawene icome].
- a1425(?c1375) NHom.(3) Leg.(Hrl 4196)119/69 : Al þat mase a new-cumen schrew, A lurdan þat hat Bertelmew.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)89 : Comelynge, new cum man or woman: Adventicius, inquilinus.
- (1449) Ordin.Tailors Lynn77 : From this tyme forward, no new-come persones sette uppe the saide crafte.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)93 : The Saxones..were newe come into the lond be strength.
- c1600(c1350) Alex.Maced.(Grv 60)65 : Þe lordes of þe lond lelich wysten Of hur neewcummen king.
b
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.2403 : A man that longe hath blynd ybe Ne may nat sodeynly so wel yse First whan his sighte is newe come [vr. newe commen] ageyn.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)60 : Nw ȝer..watz nwe cummen.
c
- (1195) in Pipe R.Soc.n.s.6171 : Ricardus Newecume.
- (1199) in Pipe R.Soc.n.s.10148 : Radulphus Neucom'.
- (1228) Close R.Hen.III98 : Ricardum Neucomen'.
- (1276) Hundred R.Tower 1127 : Henr' le Neuecumene.
- (1313) Sub.R.Bristol(1) in BGAS 19242 : Johannes le Newecomene.