Middle English Dictionary Entry
solid(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | solid(e adj. Also soled, solidus. |
| Etymology | OF solide & L solidus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Having a solid interior, not hollow; also, hardened, solidified [quot.: a1500(c1477), 1st]; ?also, firm, hard [quot.: a1500(a1450)]; (b) math. of a figure or body: having three dimensions; of a number: being the product of three other numbers; as noun: a three-dimensional figure; also, a number which is the product of three others.
Associated quotations
a
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)1.17.22 : Evermo thys cercle equinoxiall turnith justly from verrey est to verrey west, as I have shewed the in the speer solide.
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)2.26.1 : The excellence of the spere solide..shewith manyfest the diverse ascenciouns of signes in diverse places.
- a1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)109/9 : A nodell hole and soled and wast and that lightly boweth, it sheweth rapaces.
- a1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)1721 : It is humour solide, constant with siccite.
- a1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)2064 : Oure stone..Aboue alle subtile thingis it hath victorie, And persith solide thing hastely.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)328a/a : A numbre conteyned in discrete vnitees þat ben y-ioyned, as þre is vnderstonde in gretenesse and in quantite..is diuided in lyneal, superficial, & in solid.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)328a/a : Þe nombre solidus is conteyned in lengþe and brede and depnesse.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)328b/b : Solid figures ben conteyned in lengþe, brede, and depnesse.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)329a/a : Þe spere is a figure y-schape al round, and is pere to þe solid in alle parties..þe cubus is propreliche þe solid, y-liche long, brode, and depe.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)329b/a : Among cornered figures þe triangle is the firste, for he is solid, long, and brode.
- c1450 Art Number.(Ashm 396)46/37,39 : The solide nombre or cubike is þat þat comythe of double ledyng of nombre in nombre..It is clepede a solide body that hathe þer-in 3, þat is to sey, lengthe, brede, and thiknesse.
- c1450 Art Number.(Ashm 396)47/6-8 : If a nombre be hade twies in hym-self, oþer ones in his quadrat, þat is the same þat a cubike is, And is the same that is solide; And yf a nombre twies be hade in a-noþer, the nombre is clepede solide and not cubike, as twies 3 and þat 2 makithe 12; Wherfor it is opyne that alle cubike nombre is solide, and not conuertide.