Middle English Dictionary Entry
thrī̆st(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | thrī̆st(e adj. Also (error) wriste. |
| Etymology | OE þrīste, þrīst. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Courageous, bold; audacious, rash; also, of a ship: ?splendid; also, as noun: bold men [last quot.]; (b) presumptuous, shameless.
Associated quotations
a
- a1225(OE) Lamb.Hom.VA (Lamb 487)117 : Fela stuntnesse beoð, þer nan steore ne bið and þer þe dusie mon bið þriste.
- a1225(?c1175) PMor.(Lamb 487)17 : Erȝe we beoð to done god and to ufele al to þriste [rime: criste].
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)123/20 : Ne eft sones ne bie no mann to þrist to seneȝin, and segge: 'Mare mai godd forȝiuen ðanne we muȝen seneȝin.'
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)12756 : Næs þer nan swa þriste..þat durste þene king fræine of his fare-coste ær þe king him-seolf speke.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)13741 : Weoren heo to þriste and to ufele heom biwusten; wala wa, wala wa, þat heo neoren war þa.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)171 : Ich am war and can wel blenche, Ne helpþ noȝt þat þu bo to wriste [read: þriste; rime: liste].
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)4088 : Nestor..ffore out of Phylon with fyfti gret shippes..Aiax œlius..Thretty shippes full thriste throng into hauyn..Polibos..&..Amphimake..foure scoure fyne shippes to the flete broght.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)5475 : Out of Payuon com prist Pricomysses..With þre thowsaund þriste, þrepond in werre.
b
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)80/21 : Ilef on him, forðan þe he is soð lif; for þi læs ðe þu dweolie on þine þriste smeaȝunȝe.
- a1225 Wint.Ben.Rule (Cld D.3)21/28 : Ne nan beo swa ðriste, þæt heo onȝean þa abbodasse wiðinne mynstre odðe widuton wiðorlice flite.