Middle English Dictionary Entry
Penta-teuke n.
Entry Info
| Forms | Penta-teuke n. Also -cheuke, -theuke, penteteuke. |
| Etymology | L pentateuchus |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The first five books of the Old Testament, the Pentateuch.
Associated quotations
- a1450(c1405) Purvey Determ.(Trin-C B.14.50)177/259 : Wane he haþ rehersiþd al þe bookis of þe Bibel, þane he seiþ in þe prolog of Penteteuke [vr. Pentatewke]: 'I preie þe dere broþer.'
- a1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)23/29 : She bar..an olde booke..the Pentacheuke [vr. Pentatheuke] of Moyses, which was the figure and the shadowe of the feithe.