Middle English Dictionary Entry
nōten v.(3)
Entry Info
| Forms | nōten v.(3) Also note, noti. |
| Etymology | OF noter sing. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To sing, make music; (b) to supply (a song, a service book, etc.) with musical notation, write a musical score; ppl. noted, provided with musical notation.
Associated quotations
a
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)118/10 : Nou hest þou y-herd þe notes þet me kan noty ope þise zonge þet god made.
- a1450(?c1430) Lydg.DM(1) (Hnt EL 26.A.13)497 : O thow Minstral that cannest so note & pipe Un-to folkes for to do plesaunce.
- a1500 Herkyn to my tale (Adv 19.3.1)p.81 : Tho fox fydylyd, tho ratton rybybyd, tho larke noty with all.
b
- (1429) Will Braybroke in Ess.AST 5302 : I geue and assigne to the saide cherche of Horsyndon an Antiphoner after ye newe ordinal noted.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)359 : Notun songe: Noto.
- (1455) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15147 : Item, one old Portuous, noted, with chapiters, orysons, and lessons.
- (1455) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15148 : Item, another old boke noted, and borded, begynnyng with the wordes..Incipiunt capita Augustini de Trinitata.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)169 : Goly [read: Gely] wrytyn and notyd, Te Deum laudamus.
- a1500(?c1440) Lydg.HGS (Lnsd 699)184 : Men plukke stalkes out of my weengis tweyn, Some to portraye, somme to noote & write.