Middle English Dictionary Entry
simenel n.
Entry Info
| Forms | simenel n. Also siminel, simnel(le, simnele, simnille, cimnel & (?errors) sennel, sonnel, sawnel. |
| Etymology | OF simenel, siminel, simonel, seminel & AL simenellus, sim(i)nellus, seminellus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A loaf or bun made of fine flour, usu. lighter than wastel; bread of this kind; ~ horn, ~ with the horn, ?a loaf of this bread made with pointed ends or corners; ferthing ~, a loaf of this bread worth one farthing; (b) ~ silver, ?money paid for transporting bread of this kind; (c) in surnames.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (c1174) Chart.in Capes Hereford Cath.24 : Ita quod singulis annis in festo sancte Milburge virginis de eadem decima fiant simnelli canonicis et vicariis memorate ecclesie..distribuendi. ]
- a1300 Doc.in Dugdale Monasticon 3242 : Tamen suæ dilectionis memoriam suis monachis reliquit, constituens..ad cotidianos usus panem regiæ mensæ aptum, qui Simenel vulgo vocatur, habere pondere lx solidorum.
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)779 : For hom he brouthe fele siþe Wastels, simenels with þe horn.
- (a1307) Doc.Gildh.Lond.in RS 12.3411 : Item, panis artocopi, i. simenel, ponderabit minus wastello per duos solidos.
- (c1350) Doc.Oxf.in OHS 73134 : Þe ferþyng symnel shal weye lasse þan þe wastell by ii s., for hit is y soden.
- a1400 in James Cat.MSS Trin-C.3.91 : Simenel hornes ber none þornes, Alleluya.
- a1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)39/20 : Hungur dispiseþ no maner of mete..Haue he barly bred or a ryȝe kake, he wol not a bide to þou seende for symnelle to þe bakers houȝs.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)173 : It is ordeyned that no baxter..make non wastell, symnell, ne the ferst coket, but ȝif it be a bultell of Reynes.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)48 : Brede twyys bakyn, as krakenelle or symnel [Win: symnele] or other lyke.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)77 : Cymnel, brede: Artocopus.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)565/43 : Artocopus: a symynel.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)114a : A Symnell: hic Artocopus, libum, libellum, placenta.
- a1486 Assize Bread in Archaeol.57 (Mrg M 775)59 : A ferthinge loof of Coket of..corne of lasse price..schal weye more than the wastell bi vj s., the symnel more than the wastell bi ij s., for it is sothen.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)292/389 : Dysers..lakys thare corne and thare catell..his hyppys then bakys no symnell ffor hote.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)725/20 : Artocopus: a symnylle.
b
- (1343) *Acc.R.Gt.Amwell : Sonnelsilver.
- (1351) Doc.Manor in MP 3449 : Item, in allocacione Ade[messoris] pro sennelsilver..pro septimana, j d.
- (1372) *Acc.R.Gt.Amwell : Sawnel selver.
c
- (1207) Fine R.King John450 : Gaufridus Simenell.