Middle English Dictionary Entry
sēler n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sēler n. |
| Etymology | From sēlen v. & OF sëelëor, sëeler. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) One who imprints a seal; one who affixes his seal to a document; (b) an official charged with certifying and sealing cloth to be of a standard size and quality; (c) ?a maker of seals; (d) as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Esd.10.1 : Sealeres [vr. Selers; WB(2): seeleris; L Signatores] forsoþe weren neemyas, athersatha, [etc.].
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)126/18 : We ouȝte now feele and graunte to seie þat þe seel of þe seeler makiþ not þe prent in þe wexe, but þat þe seeler makiþ þe prent.
b
- (1467-8) RParl.5.630a : That all the seid Clothes..be sealed by the Kyngs Awnager or Sealer, with the Seales of the Subsidie and Ulnage within every of the said Shires therfore ordeyned, prented in Wex.
c
- (1309) in G.Otto Handwerkernamen84 : Seeler.
d
- (c1200) Doc.Ireland in RS 5326 : Mathias Seeler.
- (1292) in Rymer's Foedera (1816-69)1.773 : Symon le Seeler.
- (1330) in Fransson Surn.135 : Reg. le Seeler.