priden - Middle English Compendium

Middle English Dictionary Entry

prīden v.

Forms	prīden v. Also prid(e, (SWM & S) pruden & (K) prẹ̄de. Forms: sg.2: prīdest & (K) prẹ̄st; sg.3 prīdeth, etc. & (K) prē̆tte; pl. (chiefly K) prẹ̄deth & (error) prodeth; p.ppl. prīded & (SWM) iprūd.
Etymology	From prīd(e n.(2).

(a) To be proud or arrogant, act haughtily; (b) ben prided, to become proud; ben prided ayenes, act arrogantly toward (sb.), rival.

c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)119/21 : Six acheisuns notið hwi godd for ure god wiðdraheð him oðerhwiles; An is þet we ne pruden.
(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ecclus.10.9 : What pridist þou þanne, erþe & asken?
a1440 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 3913)p.144 : To priden [vr. to be proud; Hrl 874: Þe deuel makeþ men to prouden & arisen aȝeins þe creatoure].
(1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)413 : Prydyn, or wax prowde: Superbio.
a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)9.23 : Dum superbit impius incenditur pauper..I whils the wickid prides, kyndeld is the pore.
a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)p.519 : Bot for the yre of enmys i delayid, leswhen thaire enmys prydid.
a1525 Conq.Irel.(Dub 592)144/9 : The Iresshe-men begon to pryde & take ouer-hand of the englysshe.

(c1400) Gower PP (Eg 2862)257 : Holy cherche is in hersilf divided..And thus, whan humble pacience is prided, The remenant, which that thei schulden reule, No wondir is, though it stonde out of reule.
c1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)12/24 : The verray strengthe of mankyndli corage is that the which is neuer broken in aduersite, ne prided in prosperite.
c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)186 : The seruantes of Adonay ben so pryded ayens us [F vers nous si envahi] that thei wolen be resceyued to the place from which we ben fallen.
a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)2.11 : Seruys til god in dred, that ȝe be noght pridid.

Refl. (a) To pride oneself, be proud; (b) ~ for (in, of, over, upon), to pride (oneself) on (a quality, possession, etc.).

a1275(?c1150) Prov.Alf.(Trin-C B.14.39)650 : Bute he mote himseluen pruden, he wole maken fule luden.
(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)79/11 : Zuyche guodes and zuiche graces..harmeþ ham þet hise habbeþ..huanne hi ham yelpeþ, oþer hi ham prodeþ [read: predeþ], and oþren hy onworþeþ.
(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)258/22 : Onder þe uayre robes is þe zaule dyad be zenne, and nameliche ine þan þet ham gledyeþ and predeþ.

(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)258/23 : Þe pokoc him prette uor his uayre tayle, and þe coc uor his kombe.
(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)258/27 : He ne ssel him naȝt prede of [Vices & V.(2): be proude of] þe ssredinge of his bodye ne of þe quayntises of his heuede.
c1350 Ayenb.App.(Arun 57)270/5 : Naȝt of oþre þinge ne glorefye þe..Of uayrhede þe prest þe, hou moche uayr is ine þe ueþeren of þe pokoce?
(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.459,461 : Eke for to pride hym in his strengthe of body, it is an heigh folye..Eke for to pride hym of his gentrie is ful gret folie.
(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.1811 : This Perseus..prided him upon the thing, Of that he was become a king.
a1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)11/23 : Sum men pride hem alle one of nobeley of þere cuntre.
c1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)27/18 : Where-of is it that erthe and asschis pridith him?
a1475(1450) Scrope DSP (Bod 943)192/27 : Pride the not ne hevy the not ouer that longithe to thine estate.
c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)2745 : We prid vs for na prouwis.
c1450(c1400) Vices & V.(2) (Hnt HM 147)77/32 : Foreyne graces don ofte harm..whan men and whommen auaunten hem and predeþ hem of hem.

(a) To adorn (a person's face or body); (b) of a woman's nose: ?to project gracefully.

c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)76/531 : O schene nebschaft ant schape se swiðe semlich þet schulde beo se prudeliche ischrud ant iprud ba wið pel ant wið purpre.