Middle English Dictionary Entry
tealte adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | tealte adj. |
| Etymology | OE tealt |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Evanescent, transitory, unstable.
Associated quotations
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)132/9 : Þeo oferlufe eorþlice ȝestreonæ.. bið smeke ilic oððe rænæs scuræs, þonne heo of heofenne swiðost reoseð, & raþe eft toglidene wurðæþ..Swa wace & swa tealte beoð eorðlice dreames.
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)9/231 : Me may inne sealte se Cristny wel mitte beste And eke inne oþere sealte watere, Bote me in to moche keste Of sealte, For ȝef þat water his kende lest, Þat cristning stant te tealte.