Middle English Dictionary Entry
remanent adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | remanent adj. Also rem(e)nant. |
| Etymology | OF remanant, remenant, ppl. of remanoir & L remanens, -entis, ppl. of remanēre. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Remaining, other; also, left over; ~ from, other than; (b) continuing, staying.
Associated quotations
a
- (1443) Proc.Privy C.5.298 : Þe Kyng commaunded þat letres undre prive seal be directed to sir John Fortescu, chief justice of þe Kinges benche, and to þe remenant justices of þe same bench.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)470 : Al þe lijf which is remanent fro contemplatijf lijf is actijf lijf.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)39 : The more deel and party of Goddis hool lawe..and that bi an huge gret quantite ouer the remanent parti of the same lawe, is groundid sufficiently out of Holi Scripture in the inward book of lawe of kinde.
- a1475(a1447) Bokenham MAngl.(Hrl 4011)15/42 : Þus floode..departythe the provynce of Lyndeseye..from þe remnant plage [Trev.Higd.: oþer contray] of Northehumbirlonde.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.15 : Y..schalle prosecute my processe..folowenge the scherers after my power, gedrenge the eres of cornes remanent.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.15 : Y..gedrenge the litelle partes to men hungre of the fragmentes of the cophinnes remanent [Trev.: scrappes of þe releef of þe twelf cupes], schalle adde somme thynge to the labores of auctores.
- a1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)1759 : The principalle agent of the qualitees fowre hath power Royalle..The remenant qualitees to conuerte to his kynde.
b
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)2.425 : Thei were chaungede in to other similitudes and did bere burthones, the mynde of man remanente [L manente] in theyme.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)3.143 : Kynge Astiages toke a grete hoste to this Arpagus to fiȝhte ageyne men of Persides, hym selfe remanent [L remanente] in Medea.