Middle English Dictionary Entry
provende n.
Entry Info
| Forms | provende n. Also provand(e, proviande, provente & probend. |
| Etymology | OF provende, -vande, prevende & ML prebenda, probenda, -vendum, -vandum. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Food for domesticated animals, fodder, hay, grain, etc.; hors ~, provender for horses; ~ poke, a bag for fodder, ?a nose bag; (b) eccl. the stipend of a member of the chapter of a cathedral or collegiate church, a prebend; also, the land yielding revenue for such a stipend.
Associated quotations
a
- (?c1341) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100541 : In Canabo empt.pro 1 Provandpok et 2 Huciis pro equis Prioris.
- a1400 Cursor (Frf 14)3317 : Prouande [Vsp: Fodder] and hay þou sal finde boun.
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)664/10 : Nomina pertinencia ad orrium..Hec prebenda, Anglice, probend.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)10730 : He tok no þyng fer ne hende But mete & drynke & hors prouende.
- a1450 PPl.B (Bod 814)13.243 : Provende [Ld: I fynde payne for þe pope and prouendre for his palfrey].
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)254/13 : Þe kyngis nowte-hard come home with his catell fro þer pastur & tuke provand in þe kyngis pales to his catell.
- a1475 Bk.Courtesy (Sln 1986)605-8 : Þe Aueyner schalle ordeyn prouande good won For þo lordys horsis euerychon; Þay schyn haue two cast of hay, A pek of prouande on a day.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.Benedictus DDS (LdMisc 683)68 : Nabugodonosor with bestis Eet provende.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)61 : The chaff to horse xall be goode provente; When a man ys forcolde þe straw may be brent.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)99b : Prouiande [Monson: Provande]: Batum.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)10/45 : Thare prouand, sir..I lay behynd thare ars, And tyes them fast bi the nekis.
b
- c1300 SLeg.Edm.Abp.(LdMisc 108)394 : At salesburi he was i-maket Canoun seculer; prouendes [Hrl: prouendre] of churches he hadde, and was tresurer.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)prol.210 : The Lumbard made non eschange The bisschopriches forto change, Ne yet a lettre for to sende For dignite ne for Provende.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.210 : Þei rene þam prouendes, þorgh power þat þei haue.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)6931 : If we seen hym wynne honour, Richesse, or preis thurgh his valour, Provende, rent, or dignyte [F Provendes ou possessions], Full fast, iwys, compassen we Bi what ladder he is clomben so.