Middle English Dictionary Entry
āche n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | āche n.(1) Also hache, (early) eche, (late) ake. |
| Etymology | OE ece & æce (with vowel of vb.). ME ēche & āche represent the OE prototypes; āke is remodeled on āken. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. aken.
1.
Pain, esp. continuous or deep-seated pain; aching, suffering; ache of hed, headache; toth ake; aches of love, the woes of love.
Associated quotations
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B:Berberich)110.83/3 : Wið muðes ece.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)165 : Eche and smertinge..and oðre wowe muchel.
- c1230(?a1200) *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)77a : An eðelich stiche oðer eche makeð to understonden hu lutel prude is wurð.
- c1300 SLeg.Mich.(LdMisc 108)385 : Heore pinene beoth strongue and wicke. For huy farez ase doth þe man þat in ane hache of þe feueres is.
- c1330(?c1300) Guy(1) (Auch)4215 : Þat ich am apassed þis hache.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)826 : So harde hacches of loue here hert hadde þirled.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.119 : Ancarus, þat is ache and sorwe of his boweles.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)79b/b : If þe ache is continuel it comeþ of humours.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)267a/a : So many maner sores and aches.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)4.728 : For ache of hed.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)1098 : That hol a man it koude make Of palasie and of toth-ake.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)9a/b : Þe ydropisie & ake of þe reynes.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)8 : Ake or ache or akynge: Dolor.
- a1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)3713 : A grete ache in to his hede y-comen ys.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)312/1026 : For ach þat suellith. Take the leues of alþer..lay it all hote to the sore.
- ?c1450 Iff a man (Stockh 10.90)296/51 : All þe hed-werk and þe ake With-in lytyll all schall slake.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.Prayer Leonard (LdMisc 683)20 : Ache of bonys.
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)223/29 : Crying and ȝellyng for ake and sorow þat he suffyrd.
- a1500(a1450) Gener.(2) (Trin-C O.5.2)5203 : Grete payn of ache allway he doth endure.
- a1500 BodAdd.A.106 Lapid.(BodAdd A.106)43 : Ye saphir..sal do away ache fro a mans teth.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. ache of head.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. ache of the head.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. ache.