Middle English Dictionary Entry
theut n.
Entry Info
| Forms | theut n. Also (early) þeoute. |
| Etymology | OE þēowet, þēowt. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A state of enforced servitude; bondage, slavery; also fig. [1st quot.]; also, dominion, rule [quot. c1175, 1st].
Associated quotations
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)10/10 : Under Moyses æ mæn halgoden þone Sæterdæig mid swyðlice wurðmynte fram þeowtlice weorcan, þæt synden synnen gewiss þe gebringað on þeowte þa þa heo swyðest begað, swa swa se Hælend cwæð..'Ælc þære þe synnen gewyrcð is þære synne þeowwe.'
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)29/20 : Þære cnapena þe binnen sixtene geare elde wæren, hundnigentig þusende heo tosændan to æghwylcen leodscipen to þeowte, & on þan earde ne belaf nan þing þæs awyregedan cynnes.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)139/28 : Nabugodonosor..genam þæt Judeisce folc..& lædde heo to his burh Babilone, & dyde heo þære on þeowte hundseofentig wintre.
- c1175(OE) Bod.Aelfric OT (Bod 343)29/333 : Moyses þa syððan ðet moncyn lædde of Pharaones ðeowte.
- c1175(OE) Bod.Aelfric OT (Bod 343)43/637 : Ezechiel ða on ðeowte þær wunode.