Middle English Dictionary Entry
pā̆trọ̄n(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pā̆trọ̄n(e n. Also patroun. |
| Etymology | OF patron & ML pā̆trōnus, both with senses 'patron' & 'pattern'. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. patroun n.
1.
(a) A model of behavior or appearance to be imitated or avoided; (b) a model from which an object is made, exemplar, prototype; a model for a painting; plan or design for a building; pattern; also fig.; (c) image, likeness.
Associated quotations
a
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.1867 : Men may þer þe trewe patron fynde Of Inconstaunce.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.73 : Þese newe religiouse..neiþer þei make Baptist ne Jesus Crist þer patroun.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)2.254 : He..sueþ more þe emperour þan eiþer Crist or Seint Petre, for þe world is his patroun.
- c1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)910 : Nature had swich lest To make that fair, that trewly she Was hir chef patron of beaute.
- a1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)53/24 : Youre grette cheueteynes..studyen..hough thei may enbrace the grette lordshippes, namely, suche as by olde auncetrye shulde be patrones of all wourship and mirrour of perfeccion.
b
- (1324) in Salzman Building in Engl.301 : [The chief carpenter made a] patron [in wood].
- (1425) Doc.in Bk.Lond.E.229/15 : Two newe houses shull be made..after the fourme of a patron þer-of made and deliuered to the same John Causton.
- (1431) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)205 : Payed For þe costes off Mayster Thomas Mapulton and Serle, in alle vij men and vij hors, For To Fecche þe patroun off penserstes Rooff, and For William Hykyns, stenour, For his Travayle To bryng hit Inne divers portratures: xxiij s. iiij d.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)386 : Patrone, forme to werk by: Exemplar.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)38 : J leeue..to hem..the yifte of pees..It is a iewell..maad..of my fader..If ther were any that wolde wite of his facioun, j wolde wel take the Patroun..to hem.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)4900 : Yt ys good that the exaumple be Off pes yput in Remembraunce..And off thys pes, by good Reson, That ther be shewyd a patrovn, To knowe the verray exaumpleyre.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)5016 : Wherfor euery man..Do hys dyllygent labour, To ha pes with hys neihebour..Vp to parforme the patroun.
- c1475(c1420) Page SRouen (Eg 1995)p.43 : Moche of the folke..were but bonys and bare skyn..Patrons they were quente, A Colayne kynge aftyr to paynte.
- c1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)243/2 : Of the maisters comyth the patroon and exaumples wherevpon thaire helpers and prentices most werke.
- (a1483) Tailors' Gild Exeter321 : Ther wasse fownde no cloth wasted..as hit apereth by patrons of blacke paper in our Comen Kofer of record.
- (1495-6) in Salzman Building in Engl.554 : The transumpt barres of the seid wyndowes to be made in lengthe iiij fote iij ynches, And in bignes according to a patron made and deliuered to the seid Symond.
- a1500(?1421) Let.Marg.Anjou in Camd.86 (Add 46846)20 : The fundament of youre chappell, withinne youre castell of Caleys, and the walles over..I send yow the patrone by John Makyn.
- a1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)122/7 : He Himself taught the a fourme of thy prayere and yave the a patron whereaftir thou shuldest werke.
c
- a1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)26/2 : O thou Vndirstondinge, figure or patron of the Trinite..hast nat þou mynde of the othe thou madist me?