Middle English Dictionary Entry
slagh n.
Entry Info
| Forms | slagh n. Also (K) slaȝe & (early) slege, sleȝe, slæg(e. |
| Etymology | OE slege, slæge a stroke, slaughter, etc. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. slaught(e n., slaughter n.
1.
(a) Slaughter, murder; also, execution; ~ net, a meat animal for slaughter; (b) a stroke, blow; also, a clap of thunder.
Associated quotations
a
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.852 : Wulfred scolde gifen..twa tunnan fulle hlutres aloð and twa slæg næt & sex hund hlafes.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)26/25 : Hit wæs þa Eastertid, & for þy he elcode his sleges.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)91/18 : On Setembre, hit bodeð god gear, ac..riccere manna slege.
- a1150(c1125) Vsp.D.Hom.Fest.Virg.(Vsp D.14)31/151 : Æt þan ænde heo wæs inlice gedrefod and, swa-swa Symeon hire hwilen ær gewitegode, 'his slege þurheode hire sawle.'
- c1175(OE) Bod.Aelfric OT (Bod 343)23/176-8 : Abeles slæge soðlice tacnode ure Hælendes slæge.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)121 : Vre drihten wes iled to sleȝe al swa me dede a scep.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)123 : Ða tuhte he ðet heðene folc to his sleȝe and ifelde þa þene hoc þet wes cristes godcumnesse.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)89/31 : Yef ich betoke my body to slaȝe and yeue al þet ich habbe to þe poure..al hit nere me naȝt worþ.
- a1525 Conq.Irel.(Dub 592)34/3 : Reymond openly to vs hath spoke of mercy & almes-dedes, vnked landes I-wonne, & nat wyth slagh & wyth brenny[n]ge.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)13609 : Hit suffis..þe slagh of his childur.
b
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1118 : On þison geare on þære wucon Theophanie wæs anes æfenes swyðe mycel lihtinge, & un gemetlice slæge þær æfter.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)79/22 : Wið sleȝe isernes oþþe stenges þeos ylcan wyrte..wunderlice ȝehælð.