Middle English Dictionary Entry
t n.
Entry Info
| Forms | t n. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The letter t of the alphabet, or its sound; (b) the t-section of an alphabetized list.
Associated quotations
a
- c1175 Stw.57 Abecedarium (Stw 57)450 : S s: es; T: te.
- (?a1390) Daniel *Herbal (Add 27329)f.53vb : And 'pastinata' be '-t-' is to sey.
- c1400 Daniel *Herbal (Arun 42)f.27r : Many callen hym 'portulac' by '-c', but it scholde ben wryten & seyde 'portulat' by '-t', for portulata, i. brod ȝat or opyn ȝat, for his poudre vndoþ & openeþ ȝates & doris.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)47a/b : Som men..mowe not sowne alle lettres, but somtyme he souneþ 'ly' for 'y' oþir 'c' for 't', as it fareþ in children þat spilliþ & schendeþ many lettres and mowe not haue soun.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)233a/b : Of 'lens, lentis' comeþ 'lenticula', þe diminitif þerof, and is y-write wiþ 't' for difference of 'lens'..and is y-write wiþ 'd' in þe genityf.
- a1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)6078 : On ilk a post, on ilk derner, A sine of tau, 'T', make ȝe þer..And i mi self..Sal pass thoru egipt þat night.
- ?c1400 Sloane SSecr.(Sln 213)5/40 : Nowe after þe reules go we se þe Abece of þis crafte, wher-by, as we bifore hight, þise countes sale be caste..S: ll, T: 8, V: 5.
- ?c1400 Sloane SSecr.(Sln 213)16/8 : If þou acounte wel, þou may also wite of a man and his wife wheþer sale soner dye; Take þe names of þem bothe, and acounte þe letteres of þo names by þe noumbre of þis suyng Abece..R: 3, S: 1, T: 2, V: 2.
- a1425 Tit.Alphabet in MP 87 (Tit D.18)267 : Alphabetum Anglicum: S, es; t, te; u.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)1.pr.1.35 : In the nethereste hem or bordure of thise clothes men redden ywoven in a Grekissch P (that signifieth the lif actif); and aboven that lettre, in the heieste bordure, a Grekyssh T (that signifieth the lif contemplatif).
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)179a/b : Medicinez bygynnyng by 'T'.
b
- c1425 Wycl.Concord.in Spec.43 (Roy 17.B.1)271 : If þou fynde not þis text, 'tribulacioun worchiþ pacience,' in 'P', in þis terme 'pacience', þou shalt fynde it in 'T', in þis word 'tribulacioun', & þus of oþire lijk tixtis.
- c1425 Wycl.Concord.in Spec.43 (Roy 17.B.1)272 : Alle þe wordis of þis concordaunce of which þe firste carecte is þis figure 'þ' bigynnen in þis table wiþ 'th', And in 'T' þei stonden aftir þat here ordre axiþ.