Middle English Dictionary Entry
nọ̄n-tīde n.
Entry Info
| Forms | nọ̄n-tīde n. Also nones-. |
| Etymology | OE |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Noon; midday; ~ daies; (b) a mass celebrated at noon.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1140 : Þer efter in þe lengten þestrede þe sunne & te dæi abuton non tid dæies, þa men eten, ð[æt] me lihtede candles to æten bi.
- c1330 Orfeo (Auch)42/497 : Amorwe, oȝain none-tide, He maked his wiif þer abide.
- c1390 NHom.Narrat.(Vrn)31.289.24 : He ouhte a byde his Mete on fryday til Non tyde.
- c1390 Vrn.Mir.Virg.(Vrn)142/56 : Þe Childes moder was wont to a-byde Euery day til þe Non-tyde.
- ?a1430 ?Hoccl.Poems PS Compl.Virg.(Hnt HM 111)135 : O sonne, with thy cleere bemes brighte, Þat seest my child nakid this nones tyde [vr. non-is tyde], Why souffrest thow him, in the open sighte Of the folk heere vnkeuered abyde.
- (1440) *Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)2387 : What for þe sunne, sore he gan to swete..Tyme of þe day was euene þe non-tyde.
- (1457-8) Acc.St.Michael Oxf.in OAST 7850 : For drynk to the sayd mason at noyntyd, ob.
- a1500 Eglam.(Cmb Ff.2.38)364 : Ageynys the none-tyde, Yn a foreste there he can ryde.
b
- c1390 Disp.GM & Devil (Vrn)847 : Vche Mon ouhte wiþ rihte To heere his seruyse in chirche..And not in sleuþe ligge In bed..Til þe prest haue I-seid Þe laste non-tyde.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1450 In a noon (Lamb 853)1 : In a noon tijd of a somers day Þe sunne schoon ful myrie þat tide, I took myn hauk al for to play, Mi spaynel rennyng bi my side.
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- c1475 Abbrev.Trip.SSecr.(UC 85)342/18 : For the grete hete that apperith in the noon tyde, tha naturall hete of the body is enweyked, and enpeireth the might of the stomac, and causeth it to be wors of digestion.
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