Middle English Dictionary Entry
participle n.
Entry Info
| Forms | participle n. Also participil, -pulle. |
| Etymology | OF participe, participle & L participium. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Gram. A participle; also fig. something intermediate sharing qualities of two contrasting entities.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)9b/a : Swiche nounes I-take wiþ preposiciouns, verbis, nounes, & participles [L participiis] fals.
- a1450(a1397) WBible(2) GProl.(Cmb Mm.2.15)p.57 : A participle of a present tens..mai be resoluid into a verbe of the same tens.
- c1450 Battlefield Gram.(Trin-C O.5.4)101 : How many maner partyes of reson buther? Eyghte:..aduerbe, participle, coniunccion, [etc.].
- c1450 Battlefield Gram.(Trin-C O.5.4)115 : Of case hyt is in the participle as hit is in the noun.
- c1450 Battlefield Gram.(Trin-C O.5.4)115 : How knowyst a partyciple of the tyme that is nowe? Whenne myn Englysh endyth in ynge..How many significaciones haste in the participle? ffyue: actyf, passyf, neutre, comyn, and deponent, as hyt declareth in the verbes.
- a1475(a1447) Bokenham MAngl.(Hrl 4011)32/11 : The mydlonde peple is betwix þe norþyn & þe sowþirne, as is a participle bee-twix Nowne & Verbe, þat is to sey, hit is a partyner with bothyn.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)2.167 : The peple of the sowthe is meke and quiete, the peple of þe northe is more moveable and cruelle, the peple of the myddelle partes be in maner as a participulle [Trev.: somdele partyners].
- a1500 Donatus (1) (StJ-C F.26)1019 : How many partes ben þere of reson? viij. Qwech viij? Nown, pronown, verbe, aduerbe, participyl, [etc.].
- ?a1500 My lefe (Sln 1210)14 : Have mynd of thi clensoune, Both of nowne and of pronowne..And thi participyls forgete thou nowth.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1450 Peniarth Accedence(1) (Pen 356B)7/284 : How mony partycypuls longon to a uerbe actyue?
- a1475 Peniarth Informacio(1) (Pen 356B)101/377 : How many participuls longon to a uerbe impersonell of the actiue voyce? One. Wheche one? A participull of the presentens, as of thys verbe penitet commys penitens.
- a1500 Add.37075 Accedence (Add 37075)48/189 : How many tens be þer of participillis?
Note: New spelling
- a1500 Add.37075 Accedence (Add 37075)48/190-92 : A participill of the presentens, a participill of þe pretertens, a participill of the first future, a participill off þe last future.
Note: Additional quote(s)
- a1500 Add.37075 Accedence (Add 37075)48/198 : How know ye a participill of þe first future? For his Englissh begynnyth wt 'to' wtowt 'be', as 'to loue', and his Laten schall ende in -rus, as amaturus.
Note: ? modify gloss
Note: Additional examples may be found at c1450 Peniarth Accedence 6/239, 6/249; a1475 Peniarth Informacio(1) 97/188, 101/376; and a1500 Add.37075 Accedence 48/186, 48/193, 48/195, 49/201.