Middle English Dictionary Entry
prīse n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | prīse n.(1) Also price. |
| Etymology | OF prise 'booty, prey' & ML (chiefly AL) prisa. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The taking of something; an exaction, taxation, requisition; (b) something or somebody captured, booty, prey; (c) something requisitioned for the king; (d) the king's customs; also, something exacted as a duty, customs; ~ fish, a fish or catch of fish paid as a duty to a lord; (e) a small quantity of gold or silver taken to be assayed before minting.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (1312) RParl.1.282a : Qe totes prises ceissent desoremes, sauves les prises antienes droitureles & dues au Roi. ]
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)10742 : Sir hubert de boru..Acused was to þe king of mani luþer prise.
- a1325 Rwl.Statutes (Rwl B.520)1:105/10,14 : Alse, for te maken prises [F prises] in feiren ant in oþer gode tounes, ant in hauenes, for þe kinges warderobe, þat te nimares þerof habben hoere commune warant mid te kinges grete seal.
- (1473) RParl.6.66a : And that no prises, exactions, nor prestations shal be sette uppon their persones or goodes, otherwise then have be sette uppon theym.
b
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)5329 : Of þe cartes alle þe priis Bifor Wawain þai brouȝt, ywis, And sir Do him bisouȝt..he schuld it part.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)5707 : Þai..þat priis ladde at aise Toward þe cite of Caroaise.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.355 : The feend seith..'I wol departe my prise or my preye by deliberacioun.'
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)6.406 : The heiere hond he hadde And victoire of his enemys And torneth homward with his pris.
- a1450-a1500(1436) Libel EP (Warner)615 : If goode men..Wolde take in hand..To purge the see..And wynne hem gode..they myght there pryses wel departe.
- c1450 Whanne marye was greet (Lamb 853)398 : Þo seide lucifer, 'siþen þe world bigan, I haue brouȝt hidir manye a greet price Hidir into helle of al kinde of man.'
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.366 : With his prises he came to Englande, Full of cloth, wollen, & lynnen that land to amend.
c
- c1400 Brut-1333 (Rwl B.171)257/16 : Þe Quene Isabel and þe Mortymer had a grete manie of her retenue þat folwede euermore þe Kyngus courte and went and tok þe Kyngus prises for her penyworthes at gode chepe.
d
- [ (1231) in Madox Baronia (1741)20 : Cervisiam de prisa Bristolli quae valet per annum c s. ]
- [ (1290) RParl.1.27a : Cum Dominus Rex capiat..per Vicecomitem suum predictum Prisas suas & Custumas debitas ad Portum..videlicet, de qualibet nave vini duo dolia ante & retro electa, quodlibet dolium pro viginti solidis. ]
- (1377) Inquis.PM Edw.III14.338 : [The extent includes a rent called] le burghferme [and a toll with] le prisefysch.
- (1455) RParl.5.293b : The Kyng..doth to be delyvered to the said Prynce..the said Duchie of Cornewayll..with all manere Libertees..Forfaitures, wrekkes of the See, prises of Wyne, [etc.].
- (1467-8) RParl.5.585a : A Graunte made unto hym..of a Tonne of Wyne, to be takyn of oure Pryse within oure Port of Bristowe.
- (1472) Bailiff R.Nhb.in Sur.Soc.13423 : Receptis de proficuo corbellorum super mare ibidem vocatorum Prisefish.
e
- (1469) Indent.Edw.IV in Archaeol.15170 : After that..the seid moneys of gold and sylver be assaied..afore any delyveraunce be of all the hole some, oo price of gold and sylver wisely made for to be putte in a box, whereof the assaies shalbe made..Also to be take of every c li. of sylver of the weght ii s. or more..and whenn the seid prises of gold and sylver be made..they shalbe enseled.