Middle English Dictionary Entry
palpāble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | palpāble adj. |
| Etymology | L palpābilis & OF palpable. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Capable of being touched, tangible; of darkness: intense, thick; (b) evident, clear, obvious; visible.
Associated quotations
a
- (1395) Wycl.37 Concl.(Tit D.1)40 : The sacrament of the auteer..is whight and round, visible and palpable.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)19.235 : As þre persones palpable is pureliche bote o man-kynde..So is god godes sone in þre persones þe trinite.
- ?a1425(a1415) Wycl.Lantern (Hrl 2324)136/8-9 : No þing abidiþ to vs but..dercknesse palpable, þat is, so þick þat it may be gropid.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.6778 : To þe eye as it [tree] was visible..To mannys hond so it was palpable.
- c1450(?c1400) Wycl.Elucid.(StJ-C G.25)4 : He is in no stide, for a stide is bodily & palpable to man, & god is no body to be palpable [vr. palpabil] to man.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)9.171 (v.1:p.100) : I sawe .. the intermynable peynes .., where is .. the fire that nevir shal ben extincte .., therkenesse palpable, colde intollerable.
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.142 : There shalle be..ferefulst derknesse palpable.
- a1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)10069 : Þat derkenesse is palpable, þicke, And to þe soules endeles wicke.
- c1483(?a1450) OT in Caxton Gold.Leg.(Caxton:EETS)70/373 (f.57va) : The ix plage .. was that God sente so gret derknes vpon all the londe of Egypte that the derknesse was so grete and horryble that they were palpable.
- a1500 Abbrev.Elucid.(Pen 12)38/35 : The vj peyne is palpable darkenesse.
b
- ?1435(1432) Lydg.Hen.VI Entry (Jul B.2)400 : The roote y-take palpable to the siht, Conveyed by lynes be kyngis off grete prys.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)2.78 : Euidencis ful expert and palpable..told off dyuers ages, Worldli gloire veyn and ful onstable.
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)869 : I can..shewe hym swyche skiles That he may shake hem be the biles, So palpable they shulden be.
- c1450 Lydg.SSecr.Ctn.(Sln 2464)2568 : Eerys sharpe and thykke..Be evident toknys and signes palpable Of a fool.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)3.449 (v.1:p.30) : To euery obieccion .. that ony philosophier coude make, Ner noon there was which hym coude vndirtake, So pregnant were his resons and so palpable, And in the grounde of truthe so fixe and stable.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)232/50 : All thyngys I convey be reson and temperawnce, And all materis possyble to me ben palpable.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.Chr.Pass.(LdMisc 683)97 : Tokenys palpable, cleer as the sonne-beem, Were..shewed ageyn nature.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.Guy (LdMisc 683)63 : God ffor synne..Hath chastysed many a greet cyte..Palpable examples, at eye men may see, Of Rome, Cartage, and of Troie toun.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.Prayer Leonard (LdMisc 683)42 : Merciful Leonard..Shewe to þi servauntis sum palpable sygne.
- a1500(c1445) Lydg.Mir.Edmund (Ashm 46)169 : God hath mervaylles wrought..Palpable exaumple in stoory men may se.