Middle English Dictionary Entry
sǒurden v.
Entry Info
| Forms | sǒurden v. Also soureden, sorden. |
| Etymology | OF sordre, sourdre. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To arise, originate; come (from sth.); (b) ~ up, of a hawk: to soar up; (c) ~ ful of ire, ~ in-to sour greme, to become angry, fly into a rage.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.448 : The especes that sourden [vr. souredyn] of pride, soothly whan they sourden of malice ymagyned, auysed, and forncast, or elles of vsage, ben dedly synnes.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.475 : Ye han vnderstonde what is pride..and whennes pride sourdeth and spryngeth.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.505 : Murmure of pride..som tyme..sourdeth of enuye.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.865 : Of leccherie..sourden dyuerse speces, As Fornicacioun.
- (1442) RParl.5.43a : To all your Liege men, their Right, Title, and Interesse, had or to be had, as well be eny reson or cause lawfull, growen or sourdyng afore the date of the seide Tailles, of the seid Lordships, Manoirs, Londes, Tenementz, Fees, Advoesons, Possessions, and Enheritances.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)53 : Many erroures sourdeden sithe and many harmes.
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)100/29 : A fals woman..in hir cradell leyd her sone whiche was dede, and he that lyued she leyd in her cradel..wherof sourded a grete content and stryf bytwene these two wymmen.
- c1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)prol.5 : In a temple..That Cristis Chirche is cleped..Sodeynly þer sourdid selcouþe þingis.
b
- a1475 *Hrl.Bk.Hawking (Hrl 2340)50b : Þe hawke hath not fowndyn hyr game..but it spryngyth or sordyth vp sodenly be hym.
c
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)1816 : When Pelleus persayuit þis in a proude yre, Sodenly he sourdit into soure greme And Priam reprouyt as a pure fole, With hethyng and hate as hys hegh wordes.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)5051 : While I se you, in certain I sourde full of yre, And bolne at þe brest all for bale angre!
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1483(?a1450) OT in Caxton Gold.Leg.(Caxton)41aa : Rumour and grutchyng began to sourde and ryse bytwene the herdmen of Abram and the herdmen of Loth.
Note: Postdates sense (a).