Middle English Dictionary Entry
provendre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | provendre n. Also provender(e, -our, & provand(e)re, -ir & provinder, -ure & prevendre, prebendre & (error) perronendere. |
| Etymology | AF provendir (cp. CF provendier) & provendre, var. of provende. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Food for domesticated animals, fodder; ~ for hors, hors ~; (b) food for people; also fig.; (c) 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; (d) one who holds a prebend, a prebendary; (e) as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- a1350 Of Rybaudʒ (Hrl 2253)28 : Nou beþ capel-claweres wiþ shome to-shrude..hue pykeþ of here prouendre al huere prude.
- a1400(?a1350) Siege Troy(1) (Eg 2862)7/61 : Þe ship was..ychargid with good vitaile, With prouendur, corn, and haye Tyl stedes & Palfray.
- a1400(?a1350) Siege Troy(1) (Eg 2862)35/435 : Foureskore shippes..were charged..with prouender [LinI: prouandre], corn, and haye To steedes & Palfray.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)13.243 : I fynde payne for þe pope and prouendre for his palfrey.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Gen.24.25 : Ful myche of prouendre [WB(1): chaf; L Palearum] and of hey is at vs, and a large place to dwelle.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)51b/a : Prebenda..hors prouendre.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)415 : Prouender for hors: Migma [Win adds: Prebendum], avena.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)98b : Prouendre for hors, loke þou drawe yn as moche as þou maist, and what þat may not be karied yn, loke þou brenne hit.
- c1450 *Bk.Marchalsi (Hrl 6398)6b : Loke þat þu haue hys provendre [vrr. provandere, provyndure] redi.
- c1450 *Bk.Marchalsi (Hrl 6398)8b : Ʒyf þe hors be olde..Ʒyf hym whete to ete for hys prouandir.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.JHare (LdMisc 683)43 : To selle hors prouendre is his chef marchaundise.
- a1500 Henley Husb.(Sln 686)52 : Yeff your catell haue euery day provender, let it be highe day or þey haue it..& let your provynder be medled with whete chafe.
- a1500 Travel Instruc.(CotApp 8)278 : Or men herberowe, men moste be atte certein for hey and provender as well as for their one paste, and hit may be goodly brought aboute.
- a1525(?a1474) Cov.Leet Bk.399 : [An Inholder's assize] is þat his mesures be sised and sealed that [he] sellith his provendore by, and he to haue of euery buysshell provendar j d. wynnyng ouer the market gooth.
b
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)35/20 : Ac þer is anoþer lenere corteys þat leneþ wyþ-oute chapfare makiinde..prouendres to ham oþer to hare children.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)112/15 : Þet greate of þe prouendre [F Le gros de la provende; Vices & V.(2): Þe gret prouendres] we nimeþ ine oure heruest ine heuene.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)66b : Þe principal duke and alle his companye moot be y-serued of wode and water and also of prouendre by hem þat ben ordeyned to serue for hire.
- c1450(c1405) Mum & S.(2) (Add 41666)565 : And nad þe gutte groned þere þay gurde were, Thay had bee sike of swete mete..For piking of prouendre passing þassise.
c
- [ (c1340) Statutes Realm1.293 : Nous ne noz heirs ne ne ferroms collacion ou presentement a eglise, provendre, chapelle, ou autre benefice..si nous ou noz heirs ne faceoms noz collacions ou presentementz dedeinz les trois annz. ]
- c1300 SLeg.Edm.Abp.(Hrl 2277)386 : Imaked he was at Salesbury canoun seculer; Prouendre he hadde of þe hous & was tresourer.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)42/11 : Þe uerþe is ine ham þet be yefþes oþer be behotinges..yeueþ þe prouendres and þe parosses oþer oþre benefices of holy cherche.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.171 : In privelege of clergie and in prouendres [Higd.(2): benefices other prebendes; L præbendis], þey knowlecheþ hem silf clerkes.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)6.465 : Þe kyng ʒaf þe provendres of þese chirches to þe forseide vikers.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)8.127 : He gan bulde a place and greet howsynge..for to have þere provendres for seculer chanouns.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)13.245 : I hadde neuere of hym, haue god my treuthe, Noither prouendre [vr. prebendre] ne parsonage ʒut of þe popis ʒifte.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)4.32 : Mede..byhyht hem þe same, To louen hem leellich and lordes hem make, 'And porchace ʒow prouenders [vr. prouendres] wile ʒoure pans lasteþ And bigge ʒow benefices.'
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)415 : Prouender [Win: prebend; KC: provendyr], benefet: Prebenda.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)5275 : The viciouse ffauel hath chirches & preuendres [vr. prebendes], moo Þan god is plesid with.
- c1450(a1400) Lavynham Treat.7 Dead.Sins (Hrl 211)9/10 : Symonye is whan a man takyth..eny erthely good for thyng þt is gostly, as gold, syluer..for bisschoprychis, prouendris, personagis, or eny oþer benefys.
- c1450(?c1425) St.Mary Oign.(Dc 114)167/27 : Anoþere..whan hee hadde a prouendour menely sufficient to hym..receyued anoþer prouendere þat was gretter of dignite and rentys.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 174)127/3 : Symonye..is whan þou ʒeuyst mede or byest a benefyse, cherche or prouendre, fre chapell or chauntrye for temperall lucre.
- a1500(?c1378) Wycl.OPastor.(Ryl Eng 86)419 : Þer ben þre maner of collegies þat vsen þis craft of appropring; Þe firste ben cathedral chirchis þat han prouendris approprid to hem.
d
- [ (1340) Statutes Realm1.293 : Moltz des persouns & provendres si furent oustez de lour eglises, provendes, & benefices. ]
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.81 : Þat are was prouendere [F provender], now is religiouse.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.261 : Þe kirke of Inglond fulle ille þei suld haf said..þat neuer bisshop, ne person, ne riche perronendere [read: prouendere]: þat euer had bien fre, bot seruage leyn.
- a1450 PPl.A(1) (RwlPoet 137)3.139 : Prouendres [vrr. Prouandrise &, Prouendris, Prouendours, Prouenderys; Trin-C: Prouendrours, prestis, & persones she maynteniþ To holde lemmanis & lotebies alle here lif dayes].
- a1475 PPl.A(1) (Hrl 875)prol.80 : Personis & prouenders [Trin-C: parissh prestis] han playned to her bisschoppus.
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)51/50 : Now the leude for symonye is avaunced..now is losel, for his songes, personer and provendre alone, with whiche manye thrifty shulde encrese.
e
- (1302) Pat.R.Edw.I72 : Reginald Provender.
- (1428) Feudal Aids 5237 : Johannes Provendre.