Middle English Dictionary Entry
punishāble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | punishāble adj. Also punisheable, ponishable. |
| Etymology | OF punissable |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Liable to legal punishment; (b) liable to moral punishment or punishment by God; (c) of tardiness: punishable under the rules of a craft.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (c1290) Britton 2 (Lamb 403)p.9 : Si sount teus gardeyns enprisounables et punisables par la peyne purveue en noster estatut. ]
- (1429) Proc.Privy C.3.331 : Þaire ordennances..to be obeied under suche peines as shal be þought convenable to be executed..in alle þaim þat disobeye or þat be punysshable.
b
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)232 : Þilk yuel is callid moral yuel..for which a man is blameable or wijtable and punysheable.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)95/29 : For þingis whiche ben not in oure power to haue or not haue, we mowe not..be preisable or dispreisable, rewardable or punyschable.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)94/15 : Synne is..vnrewardable, punyschable, reprouable, schameful.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)1/32 : They don ydolatrie that doth sacrifice in offerynge or triste to martir, seynt, or angel as to hym, and punyschable, ȝe, and dampnable.
c
- -?-(1435) Doc.in Power Craft Surg.319 : So of dute half an hour is to be abiden, if it be nede, And that is more is of curtesie of [?read: or] ponyschable.