Middle English Dictionary Entry
rēre adj.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | rēre adj.(1) Also (in cpds.) rer-, re-. |
| Etymology | From OF rier, rere. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. arrere adv.
1.
(a) Rear, hindmost; ~ bataille, rear guard; ~ frount ?= countre-frount (s.v. countre- pref. 1.); ?a reredos; (b) subsequent; ~ charge, a subsequent duty (after the death of the one who imposed it); ~ entre, subsequent occupation of a property previously forfeited; (c) ~ corde, some part of the traction harness for a cart; (d) ~ sopere, the last meal of the day, a late supper; also fig.
Associated quotations
a
- a1500(?a1325) Otuel & R (Fil)2109 : Twenty thousand charlys ladde, And also fele roulond hadde In-to the rere batayle.
- -?-(1438) Will in Som.RS 16144 : [One white chalice, one] frount [and] rerefrount [of] Grenetarteryn.
b
- (1451) Lin.DDoc.55/13 : I will Robert Girdyk haf c li. al of mony to do ye rerecharges yt I haf charchid hym.
- (1464) Acc.Howard in RC 57186 : A boscher of Kokefeld holdethe lond frome the wesche he hathe forfeted, be a rere hentery, xl s.
c
- (1322-3) Acc.Wellingborough in North.RS 8124 : Item, in funiculo empto et rerecorde pro carecta, iiij d.
- (1334-5) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100526 : In 1 Rerecord et reparacione dicte carecte 3 d.
- (1353-4) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100554 : Et in uno novo Cruper pro sella del Baghors, 20 d.; Et in..Whypcord et rerecordes empt., 5 s. 3 d.
- (1399) Acc.R.Lane in Archaeol.58350 : Custus carectarum..rerecordes [and] whippecordes, [6 d.].
d
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)6.911 : Thanne is he redy in the weie Mi reresouper forto make.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)7259 : Rere sopers yn pryuyte with glotonye echone þey be.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)2.2260 : Sardanapall..Callid in his tyme a prynce off baudrie, Fond rere soperis [vr. rersuppers] and fether beddis soffte.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)430 : Rere sopere: Obsonium.
- c1450(a1449) Lydg.Diet.(Sln 3534)50 : Suffur no surfettes in thy house at nyght; Ware of rere-suppers [vr. resoupers] and of grete excesse.
- c1450(c1400) Vices & V.(2) (Hnt HM 147)49/22 : Many sweren and speken wikkede wordes..and þerwiþ comeþ reere-soperes and ofte drynkynges.
- c1450 How mankinde dooþ (Lamb 853)379 : We lyueden myche in þe feendis seruice, Wiþ rere souperis and wickid outrage.
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)8/24 : She wold haue rere sopers whanne her fader and moder was a-bedde.
- c1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)365 : The pardonere..bad hir pryuely To orden a reresoper for hem both to.
- a1500 How GMan(1) (Cmb Ff.2.38)74 : Loke thou wake not to longe, Neydur use no rere [How GMan(3): rer] sopers to late.
- a1500 PFulham (Jas 43)198 : My complexcyon a cordyth to eny mete, But reresopers j refowse, lest j shuld surfett.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1500 Melusine (Roy 18.B.2)191/26 : The two bretheren…toke & conduyted the gret baytall and by them rode the ambaxadours of Lucembourg, And of the reregarde were captayns.
Note: New compound for (a)