Middle English Dictionary Entry
this adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | this adv. Also thes. |
| Etymology | Prob. from this pron.; also cp. OE þȳs, þīs, sg. instr. masc. & neut. of þes, þis. A few exx. could also be construed as ME thus adv. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. thas pron. 2., that adv.
1.
(a) In this manner, thus;—usu. referring to something previously mentioned; ~ and this manere, thus and thus; righte ~, in just this way; (b) for this reason; (c) ~ and ~, in one direction or another, one way and another; (d) as an intensifier: to this extent, so.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Kings 17.15 : Þis & þis maner [L hoc et hoc modo] Achitophel ȝaf counseil to absolon ..& I such & such ȝaf counceil.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)12021 : Þys seyþ Salamon þe kyng, 'Ȝyf þou shewe þy frende a þyng, And he þat pryuyte bewreye, Þe loue betwene ȝow shal deye.'
- a1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)804 : For when þat chylde was bore y-wys, Seynt Dunstone..herde an angel say ryȝt tys: 'Now may Englonde be glad and mery!'
- c1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)36/1053 : She hath tane thee hert as in support To helpe in alle she kan; this out of were Y stonde, for which y haue with ioyfulle chere Sende hir this shippe.
- c1460 Oseney Reg.55/35 : Þe stryves betwene þe saide howses thys frendely restyd.
- a1475 Mourn.Hare (Brog 2.1)53 : But all way þis most I goo, By no banke I may a-byde.
- c1475 Scrope DSP Abbrev.(RwlPoet 32)304/24 : Diogenes..yet when that euer he had hunger, day or nyȝth, in the strete or elles-wher, withoute any shame, and thys he leued.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)33a/13 : The colery of encence þat rypith þe Apostume of þe eye is this ymade: Take encense..Antimonij, sarcacolle, [etc.].
- 1591(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hnt HM 2)222/126 : Alas, that me is woe todaye! This have I fayled of my praye.
b
- c1400 *Trev.Higd.(Tbr D.7)129a : Meny ȝere after þis goldene blod soukere was i-take vp out of þe put, & þis [StJ-C: þus] soone þe cite werþ fol of blod soukers.
- a1500 Weights in RHS ser.3.41 (Vsp E.9)16 : There be many dyuers thynges whiche go by numbers, and thos be not spoke of affore and thes good to knowe.
c
- c1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)3/66 : Twene ioy and woo my gost supposid is..My witt as now so renneth this and this.
- c1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)129/3854 : As the shippe forpossid is this and this, Right so of loue the hertis arne y-wis As now in wele and now in gret penaunce.
d
- c1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)932 : Do yowr dylygens To clense þe Soull wyche ys þis fowll.
- c1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)978 : I wepe for sorow, Lorde! I begyn awake, I that þis longe hath slumberyde in syne.
- 1591(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hnt HM 2)260/239 : Nowe yt seemes well that hee would attayne royaltee; elles this bould durst hee not bee to make such araye.