Middle English Dictionary Entry
soud(e n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | soud(e n.(2) Also sould(e, solde, saud(e. |
| Etymology | Prob. from OF soudee, souldee, soldee, saudee; cp. OF soute, solte, saute, MDu. solt, sold, & ME souden v.(2). A few forms with -e may be -ẹ̄ and belong to ME soudẹ̄ n.(3). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A wage, stipend; also, pay, wages; (b) for ~, for pay; men of ~, mercenaries; quartere ~, wages or a stipend paid four times a year; with his ouen soudes, liable for his own wages, at his own expense; gon (ben) in ~, to serve for pay; holden at ~, employ (sb.) for pay; (c) ?as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Mac.3.28 : Antiochus..gadride the oost of al his rewme, ful stronge castels; And he opnyde his tresorie and ȝaue soudis [L stipendia] to the oost, in to oo ȝeer.
- (1395) Wycl.37 Concl.(Tit D.1)110 : Thei taken large soudis of the king and of lordis to deme iustli the puple in the name of the king.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)2683 rubric : What vayleth a kyng to payen his puple trewly her sowde?
- (1429) Reg.Langley in Sur.Soc.169165 : Item, I wylle that xxx prestes syng for me two yeers next after my discesse ilk prest havyng for his sould by yeer viij marcs.
- (1440) Paston2.22 : My lord Tresorer grauntyd the seide vij c marc to my lord of Norffolk for the arrerage of hys sowde qwyl he was in Scotlond.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)466 : Sowd, mede or rewarde of hyre: Stipendium salarium.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)16a : Kniȝtes þilke tyme resceyued non oþer soude for hir trauayle bot lyflode of corn for hem and here hors.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin (Corp-C 80)21671 : Euery man assemblede..as mochel of peple in that tyde what be preyere, be sawd, be fors & strengthe, as ech myht geten.
- a1450(?1419-20) Topias (Dgb 41)94/694 : Þese paroche preestes..ministren þe sacramentis For a certen sawd bi ȝeer of ten mark or of twelfe.
- c1450(c1405) Mum & S.(2) (Add 41666)1176 : He shoneth for no salaire ne soulde þat he fangeth..That he ne telleth þe tirant how hit tourne wol Hamward by his hows and harme most hymself.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)1/16 : I wolle ordeyn that eueryche of you shall haue thirty Ml. men of armes, for the whiche I schal paye their sawde for thre yer.
- (1466) Will York in Sur.Soc.45158 : The saide preste to sing yerely..for the saule of me..and for all Cristyn sawles, yerely takyng for his solde iiij li.
- (1473) Doc.Edw.IV in State Papers 68 : To be assigned the Duc for contentation of a yerely soulde.
- c1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)221/9 : Yf more large were the moneye, aides, and revenwes, there is needfull besinesse ynough to employe it, as in saudes [CQ(2): wages; F souldees] of men of armes.
- a1500 Apoc.(2) (Magd-C F.4.5)97/4 : Smyte ȝe no mon wrongfuly..bot bees payed of ȝoure sowdes, as of rentis & oþer avauntages riȝtwisely geten.
- ?a1500(a1471) Brut-1461(2) (Lyell 34)109 : The quene with her counselle had graunted..leve to the Northurmen for to spoyle and robbe the sayde cyte..as for payment and recompense of theyre sowde and wages.
b
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Cor.9.7 : Who fiȝteth..ony tyme with his owne soudis?
- (?1418) Let.War France in Bk.Lond.E.(Gldh LetBk I & K)70/3 : Be ther a proclamacion made þat alle maner of men which wolle toward þe Cite of Roen..þere to be in seruice, sould, or wages with þe kyng our soueraign Lord..make and apparaile hem redy in all haste betuene this and sonday next comyng.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)103/21 : Þei gon often tyme in sowd to help of oþer kynges in here werres for gold & syluer as othere sowdyoures don.
- a1456(a1426) Lydg.Mum.Hertford (Trin-C R.3.20)112 : His quarter sowde she payde him feythfully And his waages.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)9.1666 : Erl of Bryenne..Constreyned was..To be capteyn for soud in Lumbardie.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)14234 : Moddred..sente aboute..After knyghte & souders: Payen & Cristen..at soud he held.
- a1470 Ordin.War Hen.V in RS 55.1 (Lnsd 285)464 : Every man paie his thriddes to his capne, lord, & maister of alle manere wynnyng by werr, and that aswell tho that be not in sould, but loggyng under the baner or penon of their capne.
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)31 : The said chieftein must pay his men of soude so justly and truly..that they have no nede to lyve by pillage, extorcion, and rapyn uppon the countreis of here frendis.
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)72 : Men of soude and of armes..may be duely paide of her wages by the monithe..or by quarter.
c
- (1327) Sub.R.Som.in Som.RS 3143 : Johannes atte Soud.