Middle English Dictionary Entry
palis n.
Entry Info
| Forms | palis n. Also pales, palice, palais, paleis(e, palace; pl. pallicie & palaies. |
| Etymology | OF paliz & ML palicea. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A fence, paling, palisade; wall of fortification, rampart; bi ~ or bi pal, by fence or by paling; ~ of closing, the fence of an enclosure; piked ~, a palisade of spiked pales; ~ staf, a stake or pale of a palisade; (b) an area surrounded by a paling, an enclosure; picchen a ~, to build an enclosure; (c) ?a stake, pale; (d) in place name.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (1296) Newcastle Galley in Archaeol.Ael.4.2163 : In furcis emptis de Henrico Sparu ad Palyceam faciendam circa Galeam, iij d. ]
- (1348) Doc.in HMC Rep.9 App.118a : [The carpenter..undertakes to make two garderobes, one at each end of the wharf..and four high] pallicie.
- (1374-5) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99180 : In cariacione meremii et inquisicione de palice, 3 s. 8 d.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)769 : A castel þe comlokest þat euer knyȝt aȝte, Pyched on a prayere, a park al aboute, With a pyked palays pyned ful þik, Þat vmbe-teȝe mony tre mo þen two myle.
- (1422) Plea & Mem.in Bk.Lond.E.130/279 : Item, in þe watergate atte wolkeye stondeth a Paleys on þe Commune grounde hyndryng to þe commune peple.
- (1423) Plea & Mem.in Bk.Lond.E.135/153-5 : Also the paleyse on the wharf besyde the same brigge is al to-broken and defectif, and otherwhile robous is cast in there, to grete hindryng and lettynge of the streme, because that paleyse is not made.
- a1425(?c1350) Ywain (Glb E.9)2964 : Fast bisyde him þan saw he A proper place and faire, iwis Enclosed obout with a palis.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)47a/b : Palus: a stafe of a palis.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.25 : Þin enemyes schulen envyron þee as a palis al aboute.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)378 : Pale, or palys of a parke: Palus.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)379 : Palyce, or pale of closynge: Palus.
- (1448-9) Acc.Abingdon in Camd.n.s.51124 : In j paleys de nouo facto inter gardinum Johannis Braunche et Johannis Peperwhit, vj s. vj d.
- (1468) Doc.in Sur.Soc.8519 : Yis is ye awarde and juygement..to serche ande deme..a pales perteynyng to a tenement of..William Snawsell.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)91b : A palace staffe: palus.
- c1500 Lydg.SPuer(2) (Ashm 61)200 : Iff þou go with Any man..Be wall or by hege, by pales or by pale, To go with-oute hym luke þou be bowne.
b
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)1.pr.3.87 : Enclosed in swich a palis [L vallo] whider as that chaterynge..folye ne may nat atayne, we scorne swyche ravyneres..of foulest thynges.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)1.pr.5.35 : Whoso that is contened in-with the palys and the clos of thilke cite [of God], ther nys no drede that he mai deserve to ben exiled.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)2.m.4.19 : Thou, that art put in quiete and weleful by strengthe of thi palys, schalt leden a cler age, scornynge the woodnesses and the ires of the eyr.
- c1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)1466 : Þey saw a cyte gay..Wyth castell heyȝ and wyde And palys [Lamb: palysed] prowd yn pryde.
- c1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)1701 : Þys Yrayn and Maboun Haue jmade of our toun A palys queynte of gynne.
- a1500 Awntyrs Arth.(Dc 324)148 : Quene was I..Gretter þene dame Gaynour, of Garsone and golde, Of palaies [Thrn: pales], of parkes, of pondes, of plowes.
- a1500 Awntyrs Arth.(Dc 324)475 : By þat on plumtone land a palais was piȝte Were neuer freke opone folde had fouȝtene biforne.
- ?a1500 Trin-C.LEDict.Suppl.(Trin-C O.5.4)599/45 : Palicium est quedam clausura facta ex palis: a Palys.
c
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)63b/a : Sudes, a palys: swote & a stake.
d
- (1461) EPNSoc.17 (Not.)194 : Palyshalle.