Middle English Dictionary Entry
ruden v.
Entry Info
| Forms | ruden v. Also rodie; p.pl. ruddede, ruddite, ruddud, roddede; ppl. rudede, irudded, roded, (early) iruded, irudet. |
| Etymology | LOE |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To become red, redden [perh. confused with rudden v. in some occurrences in PPl. quot.]; ben ruded, be made red; ppl. ruded, reddened; also, fiery [quot.: Gawain].
Associated quotations
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)30/3 : Þeo..beoð for godes luue wið hare blod schedunge irudet [Nero: iruded] & ireadet, as þe martirs weren.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)169/12 : I schrift þe cwike rude of þe neb deð to understonden þet te sawle þe..nefde bute dead heow haueð icaht cwic heow & is irudet feire.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)182/1 : Ant nes godes rode wið his deorewurðe blod irudet [Pep: yrudded] & ireadet forte schawin on him seolf þet pine & sorhe & sar schulden wið scheome beon iheowet.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)16.108 : Ich sat stille, as pacience wolde, and thus sone þis doctour, As rody as a rose roddede [vrr. ruddede, ruddite, roded were; B vrr. ruddud, gan rodye] hus chekes, Kowede and carpede and conscience hym herde.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)1695 : In rede rudede vpon rak rises þe sunne.