Middle English Dictionary Entry
paien n.
Entry Info
| Forms | paien n. Also pain, paen; pl. paienes, etc. & paeins, panes, (error) paies. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A person of non-Christian or non-Jewish faith, heathen, pagan; (b) ?as surname [?from OF Päon].
Associated quotations
a
- c1275 Ken.Serm.(LdMisc 471)221/245 : Þo a resunede ure lord þe paens..vre fore hi..ne hedden i be in his seruise.
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)7/76 : Heo seruede gode Aȝenes þe paynes [vrr. payenes; houndes] forbode.
- c1300 S.Leg.Faith(1) (LdMisc 108)20 : Þare was Ioye I-nouȝ Among þe paeyns euerechone þat Man cristine men so a-slouȝ.
- a1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)267/95 : Þe pains of alle luþer men grettost clerkes were.
- a1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)434/1 : Sein Denis was in þe olde lawe payn as oþer were.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)2536 : He was cristine, & ȝo payene was.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)4914 : His..eyrs..were payns [vr. panys; B: paens] alle þre & aȝen cristendom.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)7446 : Þai smiten þe hors and lete þe rain And metten þe paiens wiþ gret main.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)12/26 : He þolede dyaþ onder pouns pilate þet wes paen and demere ine þo time ine ierusalem.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)235/28 : Amang þe paenes þe prestes þet lokeden chastete ine þe temple weren to-deld uram þe oþren.
- c1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.63 : Þat þe þrid part bicom blood bitokneþ a party of þe payes [vrr. payens, paynes, paynems] duellyng in her synne of mysbileuande.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)365 : Greteþ wel oft..þe cristen akarin þat was mi kyn fere, & þe trewe kinnesman þe payenes sone.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.281 : Þey þat payenis [Higd.(2): paganes: L panani] clepiþ goddis, þey were men.
- c1390 NHom.Narrat.(Vrn)16.271/916 : Þis Adrian..was wikked Mon and fel paene.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.669 : The olde payens that neuere were cristene commendeden and vseden the vertu of pacience.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)6.1313 : Spatula..used is of comun rote Among Paiens.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)7440 : To-quils come in philistiens, Þair felun faas þat war paens.
- c1400 GGuy(1) (Tbr E.7)1884 : Þe Sarzins and þe Iowes and þe paienes it noght trowes.
- a1400 Pep.Gosp.(Pep 2498)15/11 : Samarithanes..in on half weren Jewes & in anoþer half hij weren payens.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)5.1849 : Lo here, of payens corsed olde rites, Lo here, what alle hire goddes may availle.
- a1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)4120 : He sal..heghen hym thurgh pride..Aboven al þat er paens goddes calde.
- c1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)786 : Olde payens that idoles heryed Useden tho in feldes to ben beryed.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)7496 : Folye hit were, more þan resoun, To gyue a Payen a Cristen toun.
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)2.4.64 : These ben observaunces of judicial matere and rytes of payens, in whiche my spirit hath no feith.
b
- (1207) Fine R.King John450 : Willielmus Paen.
- (1250) Close R.Hen.III252 : Alanus Payn.
- (1273) Inquis.PM Edw.I in BRS 3791 : Nicholas Payen.