Middle English Dictionary Entry
augrīm n.
Entry Info
| Forms | augrīm n. Also algrime, algorīsme, algorim. |
| Etymology | OF augorisme, algor-, & ML algorismus (from Ar.). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The practice of numbering or computing with Arabic numerals; [littera de] ~, an Arabic numeral; (b) augrimes abece, algorism's ABC's, the Arabic numerals; ~ stone, a stone or counter inscribed with an Arabic numeral and used in computing [often upon an abacus]; cifre (figure, noumbre) of ~, an Arabic numeral.
Associated quotations
a
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)1 : Þise byeþ þe capiteles of þe boc..And byeþ y-wryte to vynde y-redliche by þe tellynge of algorisme, ine huyche leave of þe boc þet hy by.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.155 : Of Arsmetique the matiere Is that of which a man mai liere What Algorisme in nombre amonteth.
- (1404) Will York in Sur.Soc.4334 : Lego domino Johanni..unam peciam argenti coopertam, scriptam cum litteris de awegrym.
- (1415) Invent.Agincourt in Archaeol.7092 : Peciis de eodem opere albis cum litteris de Augryme.
- ?c1425 Craft Number.(Eg 2622)3/3,5 : This boke is called þe boke of algorym, or Augrym after lewder vse, And þis boke tretys þe Craft of Nombryng, þe quych crafte is called also Algorym.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)18 : Awgrym [Win: Avgrin]: Algarismus.
- 1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)3561 : Thre hundryd dayis sexty & fyue Been in þe yer, neyþir mo ne lesse, As men by algorysme sone moun dryue.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)178/18 : Of Augrym and of asmatryk..In all þis scyens is non us lyke.
- c1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)4.53 : Þan satte summe [members of Parliament] as siphre doth in awgrym, Þat noteth a place and no þing availith.
- c1450 Art Number.(Ashm 396)33/11 : The name is clepede Algorisme, hade out of Algore other of Algos in grewe, That is clepide in englisshe art other craft, And of Rithmus that is callede nombre. So algorisme is clepede the art of nombryng.
b
- c1230(?a1200) *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)57b : Þe ȝiscere..feareð abuten esken..& makeð þrin figures of augrim [Pep: augryme], as þes rikeneres doð þe habbeð muche to rikenin.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3210 : His augrym [vr. algryme] stones layen faire apart On shelues.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.158 : The wise man acompteth After the formel proprete Of Algorismes Abece, Be which multiplicacioun Is mad and diminucioun.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)376 : His natyvyte..Clerly Cerched be smale fracciouns, First be Secoundes, tiers, and eke quartes, On Augrym stoones and on white caartes ypreued out.
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)1.7.7 : Over the which degrees there ben noumbres of augrym that dividen thilke same degres fro 5 to 5.
- ?a1450 Lanfranc (Add 12056)109/30 : In þe nolle þere ys a bon whyche þat is y-clepyde Alauda, & ys y-made to þe Symilitude of þis cyffre of Augrym 7.
- c1475 Court Sap.(Trin-C R.3.21)1963 : Ten figures eke of Augrym gan she [Arsmetryk] neuyn.
2.
Arabic numerals.
Associated quotations
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)1.8.7 : The nombre of the degrees of thoo signes be writen in augrym above.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.1 : Þo names in tabulle I schalle sete, Þo number in augrym above, with outen lete, In augrim þat schalle wryten be.
3.
An abacus.
Associated quotations
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)2b : Algram [Monson: Algarism]: Algarismus, Abacus.