Middle English Dictionary Entry
plurel adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | plurel adj. Also plurelle, (error) plure & plūrāl. |
| Etymology | OF plurel & L plūrālis. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
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Associated quotations
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.171 : Forto speke to meny such, he moste be i-cleped Argi in þe plural nombre.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)9b/a : Of þese nounes þat beþ pure & verray essencialia, eueriche is I-seide of eueriche persone by hitself & of al þre at ones in þe singuler noumbre & nouȝt in plural.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)9b/b : Me seith nouȝt 'pater & filius sunt similes' Jn þe plurel noumbre [L pluraliter].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)11a/a : 'Eloym'..among þe hebrewes..is boþe singuler noumbre and plurel, & tokeneth þe essenciam in vnite with supposicioun of þre persones.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)10.237 : Three [propre] persones ac nouȝt in plurel noumbre, For al is but on god, and eche is god hym-selue.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)50b/a : Pluralis: plurel.
- c1425 Wycl.Concord.in Spec.43 (Roy 17.B.1)272 : Textis in whiche ben wordis of plurel noumbre ben quotid in þe wordis of singuler noumbre. A word is singuler noumbre þat bitokneþ but oo þing, as 'womman', 'man', 'foot'. A word of plurel noumbre bitokneþ mo þingis þan oon, as..'wymmen', [etc.].
- c1450 Battlefield Gram.(Trin-C O.5.4)100 : Whenne myn antecedent be tokenith the kynde of thynge and the relatif be tokenyth the partye of the same thyng, thenne myn antecedent schal be singuler and the relatyf plurel.
- c1450 Battlefield Gram.(Trin-C O.5.4)104 : How many noumbres hastow? Tweyne, singuler and plurel. How knowystow the singuler? That at by tokenyth o thynge. How knowystow the plurell? That at by tokenyth many thynges.
- c1450 Battlefield Gram.(Trin-C O.5.4)112 : How many noumbres haste in the verbe? Tweyne, singuler & plurell, the singuler as 'lego', the plurell as 'legimus'.
- (c1450) Paston (EETS)1.151 : 'Il' seruit fore þe singlere now[m]ber and 'ilz' for the plure noumbre.
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)285 : Plurelle: pluralis.
- a1500 Donatus(2) (Dc 103)1028 : How knowyst the plurell numbur? For he spekyth of mony theyngys, as..'bestys'.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1475 Peniarth Informacio(1) (Pen 356B)96/133 : For ij nominatyue case syngler wyth an 'et' coniunccion comyng betwene wyll haue a uerbe plurell; and ij substantyuis syngler wyth an 'et' coniunccion betwene wyll haue an adiectiue plurell; and ij antecedens syngler whyt an 'et' coniunccion comyng betwene wyll haue a relatyue plurell.
Note: Supplemental material
Note: Placed here on the assumption that these are examples of a Latinate post-posited 'plurel' adjective, not of 'plurel' n.