Middle English Dictionary Entry
ramāǧe adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | ramāǧe adj. Also (late, error) raynage. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of an animal: wild, untamed, violent; (b) of a person: bold; also, frantic, frenzied; (c) of woods: wild, uncultivated.
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 SLeg.Inf.Chr.(LdMisc 108)65 : Þe wolfues þat weren ramage To þat child of so ȝoung age Fullen on knes and to him bouwe.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)3.2430 : The faucon which that fleth ramage, And soeffreth nothing in the weie..Is noght mor set upon ravine Than thilke man.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.2878 : Hector & Achilles..ran I-fere fersely in her rage As wode lyons whan þei be ramage.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.3226 : Þe bodies..Conservid wern from þe hungri rage Of best and foule, gredy & ramage.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)5384 : He shulde ay freendly be, To gete hym love also ben free, Or ellis he is not wise ne sage Nomore than is a goot ramage.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)10513 : He rolled his eyen as best ramage, As he hadde fallen In a rage.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)2858 : She had a bowe..At wylde bestis for to shete..Whan she seeth hem to savage, Hygh of gres, or to Ramage.
- a1500 Who carpys (Trin-C O.9.38)p.27 : To another sche dyd enclyne, And as a ramage hawke began to cry.
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)15/49 : Nothing is werse than the beestes that shulden ben tame, if they cacche her wildenesse, and ginne ayen waxe ramage.
b
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)422 : Ramage, or coragyows: Corragiosus, luitosus.
- c1475(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Hrl 661)p.176 : Ramage [Grafton: Vnburyed hole withoute sacrament..Some woode, some raynage went].
c
- a1500 Partenay (Trin-C R.3.17)527 : Longe ye gan After hym Abyde, Cerching, enquering in wodes ramage.