Middle English Dictionary Entry
ponderen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | ponderen v. Also ponder, pondre, pondouren; p. pondred, pundred; ppl. pondred, pound(e)red. |
| Etymology | OF ponderer & L ponderāre. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To have weight.
Associated quotations
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)73a/a : A malle..oweþ to be of lede in litel quantite þat it ponder [Ch.(2): weie; L ponderet] more.
2.
(a) To judge (action), weight (sth.) in the mind, evaluate; ?assess (taxes); ~ with, estimate (sth.) against (sth. else); (b) to consider (sth.), think about, ponder; -- also without obj.; (c) to think, presume; suppose or assume (sth.); -- with that- clause; (d) impers. it pondered, it was reckoned; ppl. pondered, reckoned, calculated.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.155 : Eche man dede aught to be poundred or demed [Higd.(2): ponderate; L librari] after þe entencioun of hym þat doþ.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)56b/a : It bihoueþ..a leche for to be..prudent..þat pondouryng [Ch.(2): preysinge subtily] þe vertue of euerych medicacione [read: indicacione], comperisonyng al togider, þat he geder to one capitle of propre dietynge.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)154a/a : Maister Arnold..treted beste al significacionz þat graunteþ & denyeþ fleobotomye by consideracioun of þingez natural & nouȝt naturale..for to mesure & pondre, i. wey, þam.
- c1475(?a1440) Burgh Cato(1) (Rwl C.48)189 : Peise nat the yifte ne pondre nat the pris; The entent is good.
- 1790(1471-1472) Ordin.Househ.Edw.IV(2) (Topham)23 : Accountyng the charges that shall rise by her..also to pondyr the dayes of grete festes with the dayes of abstinence..this must cause her comyn diette to be the more.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.218 : Saynt Edmundes landes he hurt by great tasking [vr. taxynge] And tallage, which of it that he raysed, Vnegally he pondred then and peysed.
b
- a1450 Spaldyng Katereyn þe curteys (BodR 22)p.545 : Þis peyne þat sche preuyd -- j rede, þou it pondur.
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)2 : I..haue wele poundered and consideryd the..entreprises of labouris and aventuris that ye haue embaundoned.
- (1453) RParl.5.270a : Edward nor the seid riottours..feren nor dreden the Kyng..nor execution of his lawes, nor no thyng pondreth nor weyeth the same.
- c1475(1459) Pros.Yorkists in EHR 26 (Roy 17.D.15)521 : Here may be noted an indicible harme, the whiche perhappes is not gretly pondred.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)120/131 : Now god turne all to good, I say as I mene, For ponder [rime: wonder].
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.59 : Swilk folk synnes hyghly, gods word noght pondering.
- c1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)134 : Consydre thys mater and ponder my cause.
c
- a1500(?c1378) Wycl.OPastor.(Ryl Eng 86)456 : Þei ponderen wiþ þis suspending þat þei don it for riȝtwisenesse to teche curatis obedience.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)111/367 : That was for to se hir holy vyrgynyte, That she vnfylyd shuld be, Thus can I ponder.
d
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.110 : Steuen..þe coroune of Inglond wan, Þe date of Jhesu pundred, þat men tellis bi, A þousand & a hundred & sex & þritti.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.142 : He ligges in an abbeie..A þousand & a hundred, þe dete [read: date], fourscore & nyne, So many ȝers it pundred, whan he passed þis pyne.