Middle English Dictionary Entry
shẹ̄ne adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | shẹ̄ne adv. Comp. shẹ̄nre, shẹ̄n(n)ure. |
| Etymology | From schẹ̄ne adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Brightly, splendidly; shinen (ful, so) ~; (b) beautifully; excellently, well.
Associated quotations
a
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)126/16 : A muche wind alið wið a lute rein, ant te sunne þrefter schineð þe schenre [Nero: schennure].
- a1250 HMaid.(Tit D.18)21/326 : Þe meidenes habben..a gerlaundesche schinende schenre þen þe sunne.
- c1390(?c1350) Jos.Arim.(Vrn)510 : Schon schene vppon schaft schalkene blode.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)640 : Þe sonne wiþdrouȝ, shynyng shene.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.1375 : His chambre..schon ful schene with golde & with asure.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.2094 : Many worþi abouten his baner..shon ful shene ageyn þe sonne cler.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)4.1239 : I nolde..han ben crowned queene Of al the lond the sonne on shyneth sheene.
- c1430 Allas for thought (Cmb Gg.4.27)225 : The sunne..shon so bryghte & shene.
- ?1435(1432) Lydg.Hen.VI Entry (Jul B.2)504 : They..Toke an hamper off golde that shene shone.
- a1456(a1449) Lydg.Say.Nightingale (Trin-C R.3.20)194 : Myne eyen blynde..whylome shoone so sheene.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)11251 : After þem come oþer leuedys Richely cled..In cloþes of golde þat schon so schene.
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)127/22 : My comforte encrese With thy sterne schynyng schene.
- c1450(c1385) Chaucer Mars (Benson-Robinson)87 : By the lyght she knew, that shon so shene, That Phebus cam.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)146/189 : Blasyng bemys shynand full sheyn ffrom hit [star] ar sent.
b
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.2423 : Þe proude Grekis..in-to felde þei gon..Armyd ful shene.
- c1450(c1350) Alex.& D.(Bod 264)412 : Oure wivus..haten to be hiht on hed or on face..For to bliken of hur ble..Or hem schenure to schene þan þei schape were.
- c1450 Surge mea (Lamb 853)2 : Se þi sone þou ȝafe souke so scheene.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)1649 : The windowes, worthely wroght..Shapyn full shene all of shyre stones.