Middle English Dictionary Entry
pantē̆r(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pantē̆r(e n. Also pantera, panther, pantier; pl. panteres, panteren, (error) pateris. |
| Etymology | OF & L; ult. Gr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A leopard; (b) a representation of a leopard; ?a pastry leopard [1st & last quots.]; (c) alch. spotted ~, the varicolored result of a certain series of alchemical procedures.
Associated quotations
a
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)596 : Panter is an wilde der..he is blac so bro of qual mið wite spottes sawen al.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)602 : Wor so he wuneð, ðis panter, he fedeð him al mid oðer der.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.159 : In Ethiopia..som hunteþ leouns and panters [L pantheras].
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.159 : Camelion is a flekked best in colour liche to a lupard; and so is pardus, and pantera also.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.159 : Pantera is frende to alle manere bestes, but to þe dragoun.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)182b/a : Ircania hath..pardes, tigres, and pantiers.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)295a/a : Pantera..is a beste y-peynted with smale rounde splekkes, so þat al his skynne wiþoute semeþ ful of yhen.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)295a/b : Leouns in Syria..ben blake wiþ white spekkes and ben like to panteres..alle foure footed bestes han likynge to byholde þe dyuers colours of the pantera.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)295b/a : The parde..varyeþ nouȝt fro þe pantera but þat þe pantera haþ more white splekkes.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)6342 : A Folk þere..eteþ noiþer cow ne chalf, Bot of panters [LinI: Pateris] and lyouns.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)6794 : Of lyouns and panteren, Alle her wedes, certes, weren.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)3840 : A Tigre..Is..of his Skyn..lich a panter..with al maner hwys and colours.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)141/15 : The walles ben couered..of rede skynnes of bestes þat men clepen Panteres, þat ben faire bestes & wel smellyng.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)381 : Panteere, beest: Pantera.
- (1449) Metham AC (Gar 141)1257 : Ayens hos [dragon's] powere men for an effectual remedy, A panterys skin bere.
- a1450 As ofte (Tan 346)76 : As fele..diuers colours the panter hath in Ynde..So ofte-sithes..I fynde..cause to sigh for youre sake.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)1017 : O noble pantere, of thi breth the smylle, Swete and pleasaunt to beest & briddis alle, It oonly fleth the dragon.
- a1500 *Let.Alex.(Wor F.172)452 : We saw sum men and wymmen covered with the skynnes of tigres and panters.
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.164 : Thow meked the felle pantere.
- c1500(?a1437) ?Jas.I KQ (SeldArch B.24)st.155 : Sawe I..The lyoun king, and..The pantere, like unto the smaragdyne.
- c1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)822 : Then came Good Besynesse..Rydyng on a panter, a sondry colouryd best.
b
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)59 : Le ij cours: Purpayis en furmente..Leche fryez, Panteryse, Coronys for a sotelte.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)6438 : Bounte..in his sheelde..Hath enprented a pantere.
- c1450 Brut-1431(1) (Eg 650)447/24 : A Sotelte: A Panter and a damessell before The seruyce of þe þryde course.
c
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)63b : The spottid panther with ye lyon grene..shall apere.