Middle English Dictionary Entry
thoughtī adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | thoughtī adj. |
| Etymology | From thought n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Pensive; (b) anxious; (c) double ~, duplicitous; (d) ?error for doughti adj.
Associated quotations
a
- a1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)69/11 : Who drynkeþ therof or smelleth, þe odour of it heleth hym of þe pose, oþer of melancoly, of thoughty mynde, of swellyng of feere.
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)78/21 : Blisse of two hertes, in ful love knitte, may not aright ben imagined; ever is their contemplacion, in ful of thoughty studye to plesaunce, mater in bringinge comforte everiche to other.
b
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)80 : Who so þat thoghty is is wo-be-gon.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)73 : This was thing riht hidous, as me thouhte, and riht dreedful, and j was ther of wunderliche abashed and thouhti.
c
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)10a/a : Biplex: twofold or dowble þouȝti.
d
- c1450 Surge mea (Clg A.2)59 : Veni in ortum meum, þowȝty damme, To smelle my spyces & erbes in fere.