Middle English Dictionary Entry
pars n. plural
Entry Info
| Forms | pars n. plural |
| Etymology | OF pars, pl. of part. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Parts, shares; (b) parts of speech; grammar; (c) ?duties, ?rudiments of an activity; (d) error for part, a side in a battle or contest.
Associated quotations
a
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)480 : O lordes, yeue vnto your men hir pars..and aqwente hem bet with mars, God of bataile.
b
- c1330 St.Greg.(Auch)83/378 : Gregorii couþe wele his pars..And vnder stode wele his ars.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)665 : Þe seuenþe maister techeþ his pars, And þe wytt of þe seuen ars.
c
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.4774 : It nedeth no demande To axe of me if I be scars To love for as to tho pars, I wole ansuere and seie no.
d
- c1465 Chaucer CT.Kn.(Bod 414)A.2582 : Pars [vr. part; Heng: westward, thrugh the gates vnder Marte, Arcite and eek the hundred of his parte..is entred].