Middle English Dictionary Entry
organīsen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | organīsen v. Also organizen; p. ppl. organised, etc. and organizat. |
| Etymology | ML & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
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Associated quotations
- (a1400) *Barton's Urines (Sln 280)f.284r : Þan þ[ai] turnyþ into fleshe & twelue daies þai biþ so. Þan eche of þo .4. tofore [-seid] makiþ his lymys aboute hym. & þat is on doyng .18. dayes & þan hit is cleput a bodi orgonised, .i. a ful bodi redi to reseyue a resunnabul soule.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)11a/b : The brayne after þe lengþ haþ 3 ventriclez, and eueryuentricle haþ 3 parties, & in euery partie is organized [L organizatur] one vertue.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)41.11 (v.1:p.268) : Phisike seith that in sixe and fourty daies mannys body is organizat and perfitely formed [L: perficiatur; GL: made perfit].
- a1500(1413) *Pilgr.Soul (Eg 615)4.27.70a : He [the body] was organysed kendely only in power to receyve the [the soul] with in him.