Middle English Dictionary Entry
sliderī adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | sliderī adj. Also slidri, sliddri(e. |
| Etymology | From slider adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Having a slippery surface, slippery; fig. hard to understand; also, as noun: a slippery way [quot.: a1382, 1st]; (b) prone to slip, uncertain; fig. treacherous, unreliable; (c) easily moving, sliding; also, transitory; (d) lubricative, oily.
Associated quotations
a
- a1250 Ancr.(Nero A.14)112/28 : Ter on geð him one in one sliddrie weie, he slit & falleð sone.
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Arun 220)p.160 : Funt le chimyn trop lidaunt [glossed:] slidery.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Jer.23.12 : Þe weie of hem shal ben as slideri in dercnesses: þei shul ben put doun..& falle togidere in it.
- (a1382) WBible(1) Prols.Job (Bod 959)25 : Al þe booc anentis þe ebruys is seid derc & slidery [L lubricus].
- c1390(?c1350) SVrn.Leg.Barlaam (Vrn)221/499 : Bi a luytel bosk he tok his hondlyng And set his feet on a slidri [L lubrica et instabili] bas Þat neih him þat tyme was.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)150a/a : For al þat he [pelican] swolewiþ passiþ forþ anone by kynde, for he haþ a wel slidery gut and þerfore he may nouȝt holde mete.
b
- a1250 Ancr.(Nero A.14)32/30 : Auh þe tunge is sliddri, uor heo wadeð ine wete, & slit lihtliche uorð from lut word into monie.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Lam.4.18 : Þey maden slydery oure steppes.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Prov.26.28 : A desceyuable tunge looueþ not þe trewþe & þe slydery mouþ wercheþ fallingis.
- a1500 Whylome I present (BodPoet e.1)p.299 : Schuld I not morne and in hert be sad, Whan slydery cyn, wych neuer abydyng had, Schuld do me payn?
c
- c1390 Psalt.Mariae(1) (Vrn)980 : Þe eȝen of vr inward þouht Lyft vp from slideri þinge [L a caducis].
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)36a/b : Labilis: slydry.
d
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)557/26 : There ben foure maneres of laxatyf medecynes..Þe fourþe manere hauynge a sliddry [*Ch.(1): lubrifactyue; L lubrificatiuam] proprete, as þe muscilage of psillium.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1475 Gilb.Angl.(Wel 537)296/3 : If þe fleume be þin, þe senewis drinken it vp, and þat makiþ hem laxe and slideri. And þan þe vrin passiþ oute without greuaunce.
Note: Postdates sense (a).
Note: Modify gloss
Note: Possible gloss (in a separate lettered sense): of muscles: relaxed, loose.--per MLL