Middle English Dictionary Entry
simle adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | simle adv. Also simble. |
| Etymology | OE simble, simle. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Continually; on every occasion; also, of every kind, without missing one [last quot.]; (b) eternally, forever.
Associated quotations
a
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)36/16 : Ne byð þes cwide na simle sone gefyllod on manne gesicðen, byð swa þeh wel oft.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)124/12 : Ne læig ælðeodig man wiðuten minen hegen, ac min dure geopenede symle wegferendan.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)131/31 : Me toweard is forneh se dæig mines forðsiðes, þone ic gernde simble mid ealre heorte.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)191/5 : Þeos wyrt..is swilce heo symle cwicu si, & heo ys wel wosi.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)225/12 : Ȝif þu mid þe þeos wyrt hæbbe, þu byst ȝesæliȝ & simble ȝecweman.
- c1175(OE) Bod.Hom.Dom.Quadr.(Bod 343)40/15 : We sculen symle wuniæn on þare godcundæn lufe & ure nextæ.
- c1175(OE) Bod.Hom.Dom.Quadr.(Bod 343)44/4 : Soþlice ða ðe on ðissere worulde reowsunge doþ, þam symle Godes mildheortnesse hælpæð.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)70/13 : Is nu þe ræstandæz ure lifes timæ on þam we sceolon simle synne forbuȝon.
- a1225(OE) Vsp.A.Hom.Init.Creat.(Vsp A.22)225 : Ic ȝegaderi in-toðe of diercynne and of fugel cynne simle gemacan þat hi eft to fostre bien.
b
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)61/28 : Heora ængles symle geseoð mines Fæder ansyne se þe on heofone is.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)115/30 : He..gewat to heofone rice, to þære ecen myrhðe..on þære he leofeð gesælig simle mid Gode.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)146/35 : Þær niht nefre ne byð, ac simble dæiȝ.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)126/5 : Cumeð, ȝe iblesode, on þenne roderlice æþele & þær symle wuniæð.
- a1225(?OE) Vsp.A.Hom.(Vsp A.22)231 : Gief he fend were, me sceolden..do hine into þiesternesse and þer abide of [?read: oð] all his ȝeferen were ȝegadered, þat hi alle clone simle belocen were.
- a1225(?OE) Vsp.A.Hom.(Vsp A.22)239 : Oft a domes dȝei alle godes fend simle fram his ȝesecðe abroden bienn, and hi to hare lean ham þe lange scel ȝeleste.