Middle English Dictionary Entry
slideren v.
Entry Info
| Forms | slideren v. Also slidre(n, slither, sklither, sledrin, scleder; ppl. (early) sleðrende; p. sledered. |
| Etymology | OE slidorian, slid(e)rian. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To lose one's balance through slipping, slip; also, slip out of place; (b) to move, move easily, slide; also fig.; ~ in-to, enter into (the earth); (c) of snow: to fall; (d) to smooth (sth.), lubricate.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)105a/a : The kne..is dislocate without cause, outake fast walkyng, or it makeþ sklyþer [Ch.(2): slideþ] a litel as a canale.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)179/9 : Þe husbonde..as he wolde a comyn down of hys chambyr bar-foot & bar-legge, he slederyd er ellys faylyd of hys fotyng & fel down to þe grownd.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)459 : Slyderyn: Labo.
- a1450 Gener.(1) (Mrg M 876)4152 : So hard thei smote than to-gedre, Out of here sadils thei gan to slidre.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)7119 : Yiff they slydre, or falle doun, Thys Emperesse..doth hem releue, That no thyng ne may hem greue.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)112 : I xall make yow to slyther. Lo, take yow here a trepett!
b
- ?c1225 Ancr.(Cleo C.6)60/7 : Ach þe tunge is slibbri, for ha wadeð eauer iwete & slidereð lichliche forð from lut word to monie.
- a1400 Ancr.(Pep 2498)30/29 : Ac of þe tunge is mychel doute, for it slydreþ al in wete.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.1816 : Want of siȝt made þe slydre, Þoruȝ myst of errour falsely to forveye By pathis wrong from þe riȝt weye.
- a1425 PPl.A(1) (UC 45)5.113 : Slideren [Trin-C: But ȝif a lous couþe lepe, I may it nouȝt leue He shulde wandre on þat walsshe].
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)144.154 (v.2:p.427) : Simple vntawt men rysyn vp, and we with owte [read: owre; L nostris] doctrinis slydryin [L demergimur] into helle.
- a1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)2.277 : Alle we dyyn and sledryn into erde as watyr.
- a1500 Þow þu be kyng (BodPoet e.1)p.45 : Man, be war, the wey ys scheder; Thou mast scleder [Sln: slyde], thou wonest weder.
c
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)99 : No man ne mai seien husel wu god it is..for..þis is þe holi manne þe ure drihten sende alse snow sleðrende.
d
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)51b/a : Þe same happeþ..of to moche humour kelynge and slideringe [L lubrificante]..þe synewis of þe ioyntes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)319b/b : Þe mylk is y-medled wiþ watry humours and is þerfore greuous þat tyme and cause of spewyng and wlatsumnesse and naissheþ roughnesse and slydreþ þe roughnesse of þe stomak.