Middle English Dictionary Entry
purloinen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | purloinen v. Also purloine, purlaine, perloinen, perloune. P.ppl. purloined, ipurlained, perloined. |
| Etymology | OF; cp. AF purloigner, purloiner & CF porloignier, porloigner. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. proloinen v. & prolongen v.
1.
(a) To remove to a distance, put away; remove or entice away (a craftsman, an apprentice, a liegeman) from his proper master or lord; remove or carry off (valuables), misappropriate (sth.); remove (a legal document) from public view; (b) to disregard (a precept), set at naught.
Associated quotations
a
- (1348) Doc.in Welch Hist.Pewterers Lond.4 : Also that none of the crafte, grete ne smale, purloine othirs alowes ayenst thassente & wille of his first mastir afore he haue fulli serued his terme.
- (1417) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.120183 : Item, that nan sadeller..perloune na hald wyth hym na wyth drawe na servant nor man of the girdelercrafte.
- 1448(1435) *Mandeville Brut (Arms 58:Kooper)f.318r : He had ytake a gret summe of money of Sure Jamys of Douglas to purleyne hym in þat wyse fro þe kyng.
- (1461) RParl.5.494a : The seid Enditementz and Presentementz been purloyned, embesiled, and put away.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)119 : The sayde captaynys nor non othyr of the same towne shalle nought bere away, nor purlayne, nor suffer to ben i-purlaynyd or doo a-waye, any ornamentys, jewellys, or relyqwys of Hooly Chyrche.
- a1500 PParv.(Add 37789)394 : Perloynyn: idem quod purloynyn.
b
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)271/32 : Who þat youre perceptis pertely perloyned, With drede in to dede schall ye dryffe hym.