Middle English Dictionary Entry
scrīven v.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | scrīven v.(1) Also scrẹ̄ven, skrẹ̄ve, screive. |
| Etymology | OF escrever, escriever, escriver. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of wounds: to burst open; of the heart: burst, break; ben scrived; (b) to expand, disperse; ~ oute; (c) to scrape (sth.) away, remove.
Associated quotations
a
- c1450 Dice(1) (Frf 16)325 : Ye speke so moche that noon may yow leve..This causeth eche trewe hert for woo to skreve That heren thus speken of youre properte.
- a1500(?a1400) Morte Arth.(2) (Hrl 2252)382 : His woundis scryved and stille he lay.
- a1500(?a1400) Morte Arth.(2) (Hrl 2252)407 : For Angwisshe þat he ne Ride myght Alle his woundis scryved were.
b
- a1425 Christ.Belief (LoC 4)16/616 : Kan you tell me hou þat tendre mater þat þou was made of in þi moderes vombe, hou summe þareof hardened into bones, summe fletyd into merygh .., summe screyued out in skyn and hyde?
c
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.1127 : Clene away the pith of hit [graft] the[y] screue.