Middle English Dictionary Entry
rū̆sten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | rū̆sten v. Also rust(e, ruston, rousten, roste, (early) rustin; p.ppl. i)rusted, (early) irustet. |
| Etymology | From rū̆st n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. arusten v.
1.
(a) To rust, tarnish; ben rusted; (b) fig. of malice, wickedness: to become worse; ~ oute; ppl. rusted, of rancor: made worse; (c) fig. of a person, the soul, patience: to corrode, degenerate; of friendship: deteriorate; of poetic genius: deteriorate from disuse.
Associated quotations
a
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)83/23 : Beo neauer se briht or, Metal, gold, seoluer, Irn, stel, þet hit ne schal drahe rust of an oþer þet is irustet [Nero: irusted].
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)147/17 : Nis hit or acurset þe..rusteð þe swiðere þet me hit scureð hearde?
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)175/14 : Þis lutle leaste ende of alle cuðe sunnen, as..of leote þinges muhelin, Rustin, oðer rotien.
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)370/120 : Ake þat tresor þat ich of telle þat is heouene riche, Þat ne roustez [Corp-C: rousteþ] ne a-peirez nouȝt.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)Jas.5.3 : Ȝoure gold and siluer hath rustid [L æruginavit].
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.500 : If gold ruste [vrr. rustede, rouste], what sholde iren do?
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)79a/b : Al yren & euery metall rustiþ [L rubiginatur] if it is to longe vnvsid oþir to litel I-vsid.
- c1400 Life Soul (LdMisc 210)59/20 : Ȝoure gold and ȝowre siluer is irusted, and ȝowre rust schal ben in wittenissyng to ȝow.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)8182 : I trowe that roste schal oure knyues, When we haue no bred for to kerue.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)439 : Ruston: Rubigino.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)112b : Nayles of bras ne schulle not rote ne ruste in water but kepe her owne kynde þere as Iren rusteþ & rooteth.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)2627 : The nayles are of bras wel better holde Then iron; Whi? For ruste thei wil & olde And kanker and consume.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)11437 : A swerd..Whan men take noon hed ther-to..rusteth.
- a1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)2.251 : Ȝour gold and ȝour syluer is rustyd.
b
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ecclus.12.10 : Ne trowe þou to þyn enemy..as bras rusteþ out þe shrewdenesse of hym [WB(2): his wickidnesse roustith as irun].
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.1072 : O rancour rustid of inpacience, Whiche hast of new made festrid soris smerte.
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)1.1154 : Wheras olde malice gynneth roote and ruste, It is brotell at assaye.
c
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.502 : If a preest be foule on whom we truste, No wonder is a lewed man to ruste.
- c1390 NHom.Narrat.(Vrn)30.288/47 : Heer may we seo þat fleschlich lust Makeþ Monnes soule Rote and Rust.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)1568 : Al þair luf þai gaue to lust, þai did þair sauls all to rust.
- (c1422) Hoccl.Dial.(Dur-U Cosin V.3.9)325 : Han yee lerned your freend for to mis-truste?..If your frendshipe cancre so and ruste, Sore wole it trouble myn innocence.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)354/5 : I prouyde for to putt to hem þe chargis of grete labouris..þat þe vertu of þe same pacience rusten not in siche wrongis & laboris.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)1.220 : Such also as ha..in ther synnys rustid and Imowlid..may come to repentaunce.
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)2681 : To mekyl schame he schal be schorn, Wyth foule fendys to roten and rust.
- c1450(c1393) Chaucer Scog.(Benson-Robinson)39 : Ne thynke I never of slep to wake my muse, That rusteth in my shethe stille in pees.