Middle English Dictionary Entry
resolūte adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | resolūte adj. |
| Etymology | L resolūtus, p.ppl. of resolvere. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Dissolved; softened; (b) of soil: not compact, loose; (c) of rent: paid; (d) of morals: lax, dissolute.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)31b/a : It is forsoþ..þe generacioun of þam in þe selfe fleumatic humours or in metez resolute [Ch.(2): resoluede; L resolutis] in to vapour of nedy or pouere hete.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)12/9 : Vpon þe aposteme..be putte a gode emplastre..of diaquilon resolute with oile roset.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.1119 : For bathis hoot, ammoniak is tolde Right good, with brymstoon resolute.
b
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.12 : Now wold also thy puls be sowen there As thynne & resolute & faate hit were, And namly dry.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)4.51 : Light, resolute [L solutam] lond they desire.
c
- (c1466) Rental Biggleswade in Bdf.NQ 1 [OD col.] 361 : Rent resolute to our..lord the kyng, as to his manor of Bycleswade.
d
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)3.191 : After that he wente to the cite of Crotines, resolute moche in vertues and in honeste [Trev.: þat was al out of rule; L moribus omnino resolutam; vr. dissolutam], techenge men..vertuous life.