Middle English Dictionary Entry
resident adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | resident adj. Also recident; pl. resident(e)s. |
| Etymology | OFresident & L resident-, ppl. stem of residēre. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Dwelling, residing, resident; (b) eccl. residing where one's ecclesiastical duties are performed, residentiary; (c) remaining, persistent; of sediment: lying settled.
Associated quotations
a
- [ a1350 Ipswich Domesday(1) (Add 25012)72 : Adunkes seyent meyme les exeqetours garnyz a meyme le lu ou il sunt residentz e demorauntz en la ville. ]
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))2 Mac.12.2 : These that dwelten, or wern resident [L resederant]..suffriden not hem for to do in silence and quyet.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)125 : The wyttenesses be residentz and duellyng in the toun.
- (1449) Metham AC (Gar 141)35 : For surenes to reule the cuntre, They promotyd..ij lordys to be resydent in the chef cyte.
- (1450) RParl.5.205a : Harri Trenchard, Constabul and Porter, may have straytely in comaundement bi the Kyng to abide resident within the said Ile duryng the time of Werr.
- c1475 Body Pol.(Cmb Kk.1.5)167/2 : The habitacyon where we be recydent ynne as [read: is] in the parties of Fraunce.
- (a1500) Doc.in Sur.Soc.8558 : Thay schall haffe..j Burgese clerke resydentt and bydyng with in ye sayd Burgage.
- c1500(?a1437) ?Jas.I KQ (SeldArch B.24)st.115 : Quhen thou descendis doun to ground ageyne, Say to the men that there bene resident, How long think thay to stand in my disdeyne.
b
- (1425) RParl.4.306a : Also Prebendaries of Chirches Cathedralx and Collegiall, for ye tyme yat yai been resident at ye said Chirches Cathedrall or Collegiall.
- (c1426) Audelay Poems (Dc 302)31/582 : Curatus resident þai schul be.
- (1446-7) Doc.in HMC Rep.5 App.519b : We desired a Vicare here resident.
- (1449) Proc.Privy C.6.66 : Besechith..your said suppliaunt to be exempt & discharged from the said abbey and to goo and be resident in an oþer place of lyke ordre.
c
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)59/31 : Þe vryne schal be in colour remissed white with powdry resolucions blak or blo residentez in þe bothme of þe vessel.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)73.210 (v.2:p.52) : The citee of Melan .., where so many conuenticles were resident and abidyng of heretikis, was so clene purgid that, somme expulsid and driven awey, and somme conuertid to the feith, nevir oon durst appiere there more.