Middle English Dictionary Entry
pāǧin(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pāǧin(e n. Also pagien, pagean, pagne & pagent, pageant, pageaunte; pl. pagines, pagens, pagentis. |
| Etymology | L pāgina & OF pagine, pagene. Forms in -t- by analogy with pāǧent. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A page or a leaf of a book; also, column of a scroll [quot.: WBible(1)]; (b) coll. writings, a document; divine (holi) ~, Holy Writ, the Scriptures.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Jer.36.23 : Whan Judi hadde rad þre litle pagentis [alt. to: pagens; L pagellas] or foure, he cutte it with a scraping knyf of þe scribe & þrew it in to þe fijr.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)174b/b : Loke in þe nexte pagyn in þe eende of þe mergyne.
- a1450(c1405) Purvey Determ.(Trin-C B.14.50)175/193 : Wiliam Thorisby..did do to drawe a tretys in Englisce..in þe wiche weren conteyned þe articulis of þe feiþ..and sente hem in smale pagynes to þe comyn puple.
- a1475(1450) Scrope DSP (Bod 943)88/15 : Whan a lefe is oponed, men may se þat the whiche is in þe pagien [vrr. pagean, pageant, pageaunte, pagine].
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.312 : Men ben wont to writen or portreyen Figures in a pagyne faire and clene.
- a1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 3909)696 : Ȝet wer miracles mony mo..As I shal showe ȝou er I go After this pagyn a littel space.
- a1500 Partenay (Trin-C R.3.17)3/79 : The philisopher..declarid in hys first pagent hys methephisike off noble corage.
b
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)148/21 : Slep ga up o þe as þu lokest þron, ant te hali pagne [Nero: pagine; Pep: pagyn] ikepe þi fallinde neb.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)21295 : Þe stile o matheu, water it was, And win þe letter o lucas, And marc pagine [Trin-C: pagyn], it was milk, And john honi, suet als suilk.
- a1400(c1340) Rolle Psalter (Hat 12)6/57 : Þis boke of alle haly writte es mast vsed in haly kirkes servys, forthi þat in it es perfeccioun of dyvyne pagine.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)204/29 : Into the confirmacion of this chaunge the parties of this convencion of this pagent afore put to theire seales.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)683/25 : Hit sholde not be lawfull to no man to breke this pagyne or writyng of this his grauntyng of wille.