Middle English Dictionary Entry
perdūrāble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | perdūrāble adj. Also par-; pl. perdurable(s. |
| Etymology | OF pardurable & ML perdūrābilis. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Long lasting; permanent, enduring; (b) without end, everlasting, eternal; lif (joi) ~, ~ lif (glorie, blis), eternal life in heaven; ~ cite, the heavenly Jerusalem; dampnacioun (peine) ~, eternal damnation; (c) without beginning or end.
Associated quotations
a
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)2.3957 : Ye Princis, remembreth day & nyht Tafforce your noblesse & make it perdurable.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)5.753 : Who radde in bookes or euer dede see Of any princis..in ther conquest so longe perdurable.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)5.1633 : Thei loued nat to han hem perdurable, But eueri yeer..Them to gouerne to han a prince newe.
- (a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)142 : Howe the kyng mey best haue sufficient and perdurable livelod ffor the sustentacion off his estate.
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)1.595 : A leche so longe might tarie with his plaster That a soore wold festree and be vncurable And growe forth to myscheiff perdurable.
- c1475 Abbrev.Trip.SSecr.(UC 85)300/8 : Good fame is lyf worshipfull and perdurable [Lambeth: lastynge; Ashmole: durable; F pardurable; L durabile].
- a1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)110 : Thou stynkynge Helle, open thy ȝatys and lete yn the Kynge of glorye..whych schal make lyght the perdurable derknes.
b
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.2699,2700 : The ioye that a man seketh to haue by pacience in tribulaciouns is pardurable after that the apostle seith in his epistle, 'The ioye of god..is pardurable, that is to seyn, euere lastynge.'
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.120 : The heete of this seed is the loue of god and the desiryng of the ioye perdurable.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.240 : Ther is no trust to no good werk..as for to haue ther by the lyf perdurable in heuene.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.335 : Be we alle yborn sones of wratthe and of dampnacioun perdurable if it nere baptesme that we receyuen.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.811 : Here bihoueth the consideracioun of the grace of Iesu Crist and of hise temporel goodes and eek of the goodes perdurables [vr. perdurable] that Crist yaf vs.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.847 : He obligeth it to synne and to peyne of deeth that is perdurable.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.520 : The man..get him with hise werkes goode The perdurable lyves foode.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)8.2976 : He..thilke intelligence In mannys soule resonable Hath schape to be perdurable, Wherof the man..Aftir the soule is immortal.
- (c1400) Gower PP (Eg 2862)371 : So schal the cronique of thi pacience Among the seintz be take into memoire, To the loenge of perdurable gloire.
- (?c1422) Hoccl.ASM (Dur-U Cosin V.3.9)70 : To helle goon tho soules miserable, There to dwelle in peyne perdurable.
- (1422) Let.War France in Bk.Lond.E.(Gldh LetBk I & K)86/4 : Hit liked our lord..to calle the king, oure souuerain lord that was, from this present world vn-to his pardurable blisse.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)7102 : This is the gospel perdurable, That fro the Holy Goost is sent.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)1.m.5.3 : O thow makere of the wheel that bereth the sterres, which that art festnyd to thi perdurable [L perpetuo] chayer.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)2.m.3.23 : It is certeyn and establissched by lawe pedurable [L aeterna..lege], that nothyng that is engendred nys stedfast ne stable.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)4.pr.4.64 : Thilke wrecchidnesse is withouten ende, the which is certein to ben perdurable [L aeternam].
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.16 : Hire clothes wroghte were of þredes smale Be subtile craft of matir perdurable [L indissolubili materia].
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.79 : Þere may noþing be kyndly perdurable Þat is engendred of thise elementes.
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)54/19 : They haue free hert to witholde good ensaumples of lyff and ioye perdurable and of saluacion.
- c1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)751 : Terrene thingis been nat perdurabill.
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)37 : Remission of our synnes And ioy perdurable [vr. everlastyng mede], þat graunte vs þe lord.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)93 : Thow oweste to departe hem in soche maner that thow lese not the lif perdurable, ne the ioye of the tother worlde.
- a1500 BodAdd.A.106 Lapid.(BodAdd A.106)p.48 : Saynte [Iohn] telles in ye Apokalips yt he saw ye berel, ye viij ston vnder ye pardurabill cite.
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.142 : There shalle be continuel..Crying, horroure, and drede tremblyng, doel perdurable.
- a1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)107 : Alle these þat be bounde yendyr, he wyl fette hem from vs and brynge hem to the perdurable lyfe.
c
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)3.m.9.3 : O thow Fadir, soowere and creatour of hevene and of erthes, that governest this world by perdurable [L perpetua] resoun.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)530 : The lorde eternal..is him silf so iuste and stable And of pover pardurable.
- c1470 Bible F.(Cleve-W q091.92-C468)69/23 : Fadir and Sonne and Holi Gost, one God, one hool substance euerlasting..reigneth and shal reigne euermore in perdurable glorie.