Middle English Dictionary Entry
pausen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | pausen v. |
| Etymology | OF pauser. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To stop momentarily or temporarily, pause on a journey; (b) to make the proper pauses in reading a text.
Associated quotations
a
- c1450 De CMulieribus (Add 10304)1782 : He that hath a longe jorney to do And laboured hath ten or twenti myle, It is expedient, ferther or he go, To pause and stynt and rest hym there a whyle.
b
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)407 : Poynton, or pawson, yn redynge: Pauso.