Middle English Dictionary Entry
sǒunden v.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | sǒunden v.(1) Also sound, sond, sounen; p. (error) souet; ppl. soundede, isounded, sonded. |
| Etymology | OF sonder; cp. ME sǒund(e n.(1). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To sink in, penetrate; ~ to min herte, ben soundede to min hertes botme; (b) to measure the depth of (water), sound; also, ?measure the depth of water in (a waterway of some sort); (c) ?to imbue (sth. with the spirit of meekness), permeate; ?error for founden v.(2) or (3).
Associated quotations
a
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.535 : So soore hath she me wounded..with lokyng of hire eyen, That to myn hertes botme it is ysounded [vrr. soundede; foundit].
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)495 : Medea..Wox pale for pyne..In a longyng of loue..With a Sykyng vnsounde þat souet [read: sonet] to hir hert.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)5284 : Hit sothely with sorow sounys to my hert, To se þat doughty be dede & don out of lyue.
b
- (?1473) Stonor1.131 : I have spokyn with master Selenger for your dute of your water sondage and sute of the Flete Damerell..but Orcherd and Columb made many resuns ayen..the sondage; th[ey] wold ye shuld have a wey to your grounde, but they wold ye shuld nat cum and sond [Kingsford: send] that wey.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)36/438 : Now the water will I sownd; A! it is far to the grownd.
c
- (1419) Let.War France in Bk.Lond.E.(Gldh LetBk I & K)79/20 : We remembre vs hough þat your kyngly might and power, grounded in the trewe pees of god, is so vertuosly soonded wiþ þe spirit of meknesse in deuout and continuel thankyng of god.