Middle English Dictionary Entry
rǒunden v.
Entry Info
| Forms | rǒunden v. P.ppl. rǒunded(e, rǒuned & irǒunded. |
| Etymology | OF rëonder, röonder, ronder. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Refl. To curl oneself into a ball-like form; rounded togederes, all curled up; (b) ?to be circular in shape; be curved; array (troops) in circular formation; (c) to cut (someone's hair) short around the head; cut the hair of (sb.) close around the head; shave a circular bald patch on the head of (sb., a clerk); to tonsure (one's head); (d) ?to swing (a shield) round; ?wield (a shield), manage; (e) ppl. rounded, formed into a spherical or an approximately spherical shape; (f) ppl. rounded, fat, sturdy; ?also, swollen; (g) ppl. rounded, of coins: clipped, pared.
Associated quotations
a
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)133 : I am the olde angry, the euele kembed, the evele tressed, the irchownes douhter rownded to gideres wiche roundeth him for vertu.
b
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.263 : Of double worstede was his semycope That rounded as a belle out of the presse.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.264 : In the harde if that thow make a wounde, Adownward sumdel lenyng most hit rounde.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)584 : A sengil ege is first to strecch in longe..And with a woord turne hem to quadrature, And efte trianguler, and then hem rounde.
c
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)9.969 : Afftir thes princis..cam a creature, Lik a bisshop Iroundid & Ishorn; And as a prest she had a brod tonsure.
- c1450(a1449) Lydg.Doubl.(Frf 16)84 : Dalida..With sheres gan his heer to rounde.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)114.36 (v.2:p.195) : While hir husbonde was oute, she roundid hir hede [L comam suam precidit] and changid hir garnementis and wente to a monasterie of munkys .. bisechyng that she myght be received there to her holy ordre.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.263 : The men of that londe be rowndede in the maner of a cercle [Trev.: beeþ i-schore aboute; L circulariter tonduntur].
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)5.25 : Anicetus..commaundede that clerkes scholde be rownded like to a cercle.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)7.183 : Barbosus..was put from Yrlonde in that he did rownde the maydes after the consuetude of men.
- a1500 Rule Minoresses (Bod 585)85/22 : Alle þe sustres schal haue here heris rowndid.
d
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)945 : For theim a stronge & wel fetured man, That can a spere..wel caste, And also fight and rounde [L rotare] a sheld wel can.
e
- a1400 Cursor (Frf 14)521 : His heued ys rouned as a balle.
- a1400 Cursor (Frf 14)7531 : He toke v stanes rowned wiþ gynne [Vsp.: rond o quin; Göt: þar war round; Trin-C: rounde] and put ham in his skrip wiþ-in.
f
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)111b/a : And..see he þe vryne..Afterward consider he his face..Of þe erez, if þai be rounded & shorte.
- a1456(a1426) Lydg.Mum.Hertford (Trin-C R.3.20)99 : Sheo wolde..setten him at nought Þoughe his bely were rounded lyche an ooke.
g
- c1400 Brut-1333 (Rwl B.171)181/33 : Kyng Edward..chaungede his mony, þat þo was foule cotte & rounded.