Middle English Dictionary Entry
remis(se adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | remis(se adj. |
| Etymology | L remissus, p.ppl. of remittere & OF remis.] |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
a.
Negligent, slow, lazy; of rules: mild, not strict; (b) loose, slack; (c) of humors, a quality: of little intensity, moderate, weak; of urine: dilute, watery; ~ armoniak, armoniak ~, ?liquid gum ammoniac.
Associated quotations
a
- (1472-5) RParl.6.155b : If any Custumer or Comptrollour of any Porte be necligent or remisse in noon pakkyng of the said Clothes..every such Custumer and Countrollour for every such defaute forfeit unto the Kyng xx s.
- a1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)36/33 : It is a full high wisedome in a kyng to gouerne hym-self..þat he be not reputed to hasty neyther to slowe in the peple, as impetuous other remiss [Lambeth: slowe].
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)14/33 : As a ship wiþoute gouernaunce is stired hiderwarde & þiderwarde wiþ þe wawes, so a man þat is remysse [L remissus] & holdiþ not stedfastly his purpos is dyuersely tempted.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)20/31 : Þese owe to prouoke us more to lyue & profite wel þan þe gret nombre of sluggussh & leuke men to make us remysse & laxe.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)31/9 : Whan þat last houre comeþ ..þou shalt gretly sorwe þat þou hast be so remysse & so negligent.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)37/28 : The religiose man þat is wiþoute discipline is open to a greuous falle; He þat euermore sekiþ þo þinges þat are most laxe and most remisse shal euer be in anguissh.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)9b/a : Þe Articulacion of bones is comprehended in þe Circuite with ligamentz stronge & remisse [Ch.(2): weyker or febler; L remissiuis].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)98b/a : Ligature which, forsoþ, is remisse or slakke holdeþ not þe bones; which forsoþ is strongly constrict wircheþ akyng & suffreþ not life for to come in þe membre; þerfor be it made mene.
c
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)37b/a : Signez of cause of fleume beþ mich inflacioun with remisse [Ch.(2): litel] rednez,hete, & akyng.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)40a/a : Galien..praiseþ basilicon dissolued with oleo rosis if it be ȝet hote, & with nardine if it be remisse [Ch.(2): if þer be ȝit litel hete; L si fuerit remissa].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)44b/a : A certane coniunccioun of þe 3 vpper planetez..moued humourez..whilez þe fourme was stronge..it confunded nature. And after, whilez it was remisse, it confunded not so mych nature.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)140/37 : Auicen in þis case, when þat þe hete is remysse, i. slacche, he comaundeþ to droppe by and by þe grece of a fox chaufed.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.1126-8 : White wax, hard picche, remysse ammonyake -- This iij commyxt therefore is good to take; Or thus: ammoniak remysse [L remissum] and figis.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.2 Merch.(Hrl 2255)323 : His vryne was remys, attenuat By resoun gendryd of ffrigidite.