Middle English Dictionary Entry
replenishen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | replenishen v. Also replenish(e, replenissen, repleinshen; p.ppl. replenished, etc. & replenisht, replenist, repleneshed(e, repleinssed & (errors) replenyscheþ, replenysh. |
| Etymology | From OF repleniss-, replenisc-, extended stems of replenir, AF repleinir. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To provide (sb. with food and drink); populate (the world, earth, etc.); also, inhabit (a place); fill (an empty space, glandular flesh); (b) ben replenished, to be provided with food and drink; be filled (with God's mercy); be filled with retribution, punished; be endowed (with virtue); be imbued (with doctrine), filled (with sorrow), full (of sin); (c) ben replenished, of a land, country, etc.: to be provided or filled (with riches, goods, animals, etc.); be populated; of a city: be crowded; of a wound or an internal cavity: be filled up (with flesh); of a garden: be replanted; (d) ppl. replenished, provided (with riches, food and drink, etc.); filled (with sweetness, sin); endowed (with beauty, goodness, etc.); satisfied (with the Beatific Vision).
Associated quotations
a
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.920 : Trewe effect of mariage clenseth fornicacioun and replenysseth holy chirche of good lynage, for that is the ende of mariage.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)68/8 : Þerfore þei wolde ly with here fader for to..replenyssche the world aȝen with peple.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)11a/b : About þe middes uentricle [of the brain] note a place called lacuna & vermiformis & anchaformis & gla[n]delous flesh replenishand [Ch.(2): fillynge þe glandulouse flesche; L carnes glandulosas replentes].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)13a/b : Fleshez of þe necke be triple..Mosculous, of which tenontes bene made mouyng þe heued & þe necke..& fleshes replenishand [Ch.(2): fulfillynge] þe voide spaces.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)157b/a : In þe first maner is applicate an horne wiþ an hole, and it is souked, And þe aier is drawen wiþ a mouth and reisyng of flesh foloweþ, drawing of þe aier þat nature replenysh voydenez.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)48.377 : The vessel [Grail] vs repleynscheth not here.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)12414 : Mony weghes thedur went & wond in the toune, And Replenisshed the place & the playn londis.
- a1500 15c.Serm.Cycle(Hrl 2247:Powell)96/131 : Enkrece and growe and multiplye and replenyssh ye the erthe.
b
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)1.pr.4.304 : I am replenysshid and fulfild [L inbuti] with thy techynges and enformed of thi maneris.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)42.311 : Vppon the Morwe Alle Repleynsched they were with swich vyaunde as they desired there.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)50.695 : Every day Repleinsched they were Of the holy gost..and I for hunger nygh ded was.
- c1450 Spec.Chr.(2) (Hrl 6580)20/10 : A man mych swerynge schal be filled wyth wykydnes, and veniaunce schal not departe frome his hows, bot he schal be replenyschede [SC(1): replebitur] on the werst manere or rewarde.
- ?a1475 LDirige(2) (Dc 322)292 : A man that ys of a woman bore..Replenysshed ys with synnes sere.
- c1475 All hayle Mary (Hrl 2251)30 : Ihesu, thy sone, hym liked wele thy gouernaunce, Replenysshed were thow with vertu of mekenes.
- a1500 15c.Serm.Cycle(Roy 18.B.25:Powell)64/136 : Replenysh [Hrl: now is þe worlde replesshed with Goddis mercy].
- 1568(a1500) Knight Court.(Copland)196 : The lady in her castell did remayne, Wyth langour replenysshed was her herte.
c
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)60b/b : A wonde noȝt mowe to be heled bot if þe concauite be first repleneshed.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)67b/a : It is to suffre þe wonde forsoþ to be replenisshed [L repleri] with flesh.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)25/27 : Þus es all þe cuntree replenyscht with swilk maner of fewles.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)93/18 : Þis ile es..a gude ile and full replenischt of many maners of ricches.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)541 : Al aboute that riche toun Stode wodes and parkis..That were replenysched wondirful Off herte and hynde, bore and bul.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)41.28 : It is goddis will that..here thorwgh seed Of the this lond may Repleynsched be.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)53/15 : That tyme Bretaygne Repleynsched not was Toward scotland but In lytel plas.
- a1456 Marmaduke SSecr.(Ashm 59)217/37 : Þe reavme of Ynde..is so wyse, so iustely, and so prudently governed, þat þe lande is so replenisshed of al maner of marchandyse.
- ?a1475 Com.Proph.M.(PennSt-U PS V-3)127 : Than schall oure gardeyns be replenissched with straunge seede.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)33b/a : Þer beþ in þe pappis manye vacuitees þe whiche ben replenyschid wiþ whit fleisch, spoungeous and neische, in which is regendrid þe mylk.
- c1475 Abbrev.Trip.SSecr.(UC 85)346/27 : Alle the worlde is replenysht with goodys.
- a1500 Mirk Fest.Revis.(Hrl 2247)82/61 : When þei come to þe citee of Bedleem, it was replenysshed with peple.
d
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.1079 : The endelees blisse of heuene..ther as ne is neither hunger, thurst, ne coold, but euery soule replenyssed [vrr. replenesshed, repleynshed, replenyscheþ] with the sighte of the parfit knowynge of god.
- a1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)8908 : Þat cete had..fayr bygyngs..with alkyn ryches replenyst.
- (1448) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1354 : I wol that the edificacion of my said College of Eton procede in large fourme..wel replenysshed with goodely wyndowes and vautes.
- a1450(?1420) Lydg.TG (Tan 346)274 : It was a meruaile..The goodlihed eke of hir fresshli face, So replenysshid of beaute & of grace.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.126 : But þat I schal þe schewe forthermore As in þe tastynge byteþ egerly..Thow schalt it fynde ful deliciouse, And replenysched full of lustynesse.
- c1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)287/3 : Þis weshell repleynssed with watur is þe sacrament of confession, þat shuld be full of teres of contricion.
- ?c1450 Trivet Constance (Harv Eng.938)239 : Than Constaunce, replenysshyd with all goodnesse..sayde to hem with a meke and a full lowly spyryte, [etc.].
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)3.169 : Kynge Cirus hade fixede his tentes..repleneschede with victelles [Trev.: wiþ grete plente of mete and drynk; L victualibus referta].
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)2.A.618 : In no Region cristen is so moche sorowe; Oure lieuyng is now..Replenysshed with all synne.