Middle English Dictionary Entry
saught(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | saught(e n. Also sauȝt, saȝt, (N) saght, sahut & (chiefly early SM) saht(e, sæhte, sehte, seihte & (early SWM) sauht(e, sachte, saihte, seahte, sethte, (infl.) sahten, sæhten & (in surname) saghthe. |
| Etymology | OE seht, seaht, perh. influenced by ON: cp. OI sātt & sætt agreement, reconciliation. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Peace, reconciliation; concord, harmony; also, atonement with God; ~ and sibbe (love, pes, som), sibbe and ~; for the ~, for the sake of reconciliation; maken ~; taken ~, ?to take (one's) rest, relax; (b) an agreement, alliance; feien with ~, to join (sb.) in covenant; (c) in surname.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1140 : He helde him for fader & he him for sune; & sib & sæhte sculde ben betwyx heom.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)1053 : Þa þreo broðeren hi to-gadere comen; æl mid seahte [Otho: sehte] & al mid luue þas leode to-dælden.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)1070 : Þa luueden heom þeos leoden mid sibben & mid sahten.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)1277 : He nom enne dai..to makian saht & some bi-tuxen him & his bro[ð]er.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)3039 : Sæhte and sibbe [Otho: Seþte and þais] he luuede.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)7547 : Mid sibbe & mid saihte he wolde on sele wunien.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)8451 : Leofe ure Drihten; ælche mon bi his mæhte halden sibbe & sæhten.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)115/19 : Make seihte betwen Milce and Rihwisnesse, and Dom and Rewðe make wel to-gedere!
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)127/6 : Godd lihte on eorðe to makien þrofald sahte [Nero: seihte; Cleo: sachte], bitweone mon & mon, bitweone godd & mon, bitweone mon & engel.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)128/28 : Hwer se sahte is & luue, þear he bringeð to nawt al þes deofles strengðe.
- a1300 Hwi ne serue (Jes-O 29)1 : Hwi ne serue we crist and secheþ his sauht?
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)856 : Wit þe find þer-for he [Christ] faght, And wit hijs fader he mad ur saght.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)3964 : Iacob þan sent him of his aght Giftes large, al for þe saght [Göt: wid him to sahut].
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)5121 : He kist þam all in signe o saght [Frf: saȝt, Trin-C: sauȝt].
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)1007 : They send it hym..for saughte of þe pople.
- a1450(1410) This holy tyme make (Dgb 102)191 : God brynge ȝow to his angels sauȝt, Þere neuere nys nede o pes to trete.
- ?c1475 Direct.Sailing in Hak.Soc.79 (Lnsd 285)20 : Take your saught on the mayne londe of Wales Rotlonde and the Redebank in Chestre watir north and South.
- c1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)1030 : Þey ryden forþ all yn saȝt.
b
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1104 : Heræfter wurdon sehte se eorl Rotbert of Normandig & Rotbert de Bælesme..& þurh heora sehte wurdon wiðerræde se cyng of Englalande and se eorl of Normandig.
- ?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1140 : Te king ferde agenes him mid micel mare ferd, & þoþwæthere fuhtten hi noht; oc ferden þe ærcebiscop & te wise men betwux heom & makede ðet sahte ðet te king sculde ben lauerd & king wile he liuede.
- a1300 Weole þu art (Jes-O 29)6 : Weole..Wyþ freomen þu art ferly feid wiþ sauhte, & make heom sele.
c
- (c1280) Cust.Battle Abbey in Camd.n.s.41120 : Henricus de la Saghthe.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1150(?OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)91/22 : On Decembre, hit bodeð god gear on tilðe, & sibb, & sehte.
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