Middle English Dictionary Entry
sāvā̆ble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | sāvā̆ble adj. Also sauvable, salvable, solvable, (errors) savlable, seivable & (?error) sanable. |
| Etymology | OF sauvable, salvable; also cp. ML salvābilis. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Saving, protecting; (b) theol. capable of being saved; also, as noun: the ~, those who can be saved; (c) med. curable, able to be healed.
Associated quotations
a
- c1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)225/3 : They that [CQ(2): that leve] the well of vertu and the publique saluacion..desire nothinge ellys sauf the gettinge of goddes..shall neuer doo at the longe wey no soluable ne actuell deede [F oeuvre salvable].
- c1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)239/27 : The good fame and saluable [CQ(2); seivable; vrr. savable, savlable; F salvable] doctrine of the manly faders and auncient men of a ligne may be more profitable to induce the yonge men to vertu.
b
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)72/22 : Þe synners ben bounden of god..to be dampned, also to be oute of þe soorte of sauable soulis.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)109/7 : Charite..is a general freendli loue..to god..and to alle oþire resonable and sauable creaturis in god and for god.
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.103 : Be the croice to fore þat crist come eked was the noumbre of dampnable, And nowe in it be cristis vertue growes the noumbre of the sauuable.
c
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)1a/a : Mannys body sauable [Ch.(4) vr. sanable; L sanabile], i. able to bene helid, & egrotable, i. able to bene sike, by þe science of Cyrurgie is þe subiecte in cirurgie.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)51b/a : Wondez, som bene mortale..And bi þe contrarye, som heleful or sauable [Ch.(2): able to be heled; L sanabilia].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)52b/a : Wondez..ar vtterly or alwaise sauable or heleable which beþ..in carnous placez of fewe neruez & veynez.