Middle English Dictionary Entry
tọ̄̆cǒme n.
Entry Info
| Forms | tọ̄̆cǒme n. Also tocom(ene, -cum, (early) -cume, -kume, -cime, -kime. |
| Etymology | OE tōcyme |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) An arrival, a coming, an advent; (b) the future; wordes of ~, a declaration of a future commitment, promise.
Associated quotations
a
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)29/28 : Storc & swealewe heolden þone time heores tocymes, & þis folc ne oncneow Godes dom.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)67/3 : Þas witen & þas gedrefodnysse þonne gewurðeð, & ateowodnysse þæs awyrgoden Antecristes tocyme.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)90/36 : On þan twelften dæige eorneð mænn geon[d] eall middeneard byfigende & drædende Cristes tocyme to demene cwican & deaden.
- c1175(OE) Bod.Aelfric OT (Bod 343)40/567 : We nimæð þa witegan nu, þe witegoden embe Criste ðurh þone Halgan Gast be þæs Hælendes tocyme to þisse middanearde.
- c1175(OE) Bod.Hom.Evang.(Bod 343)16/9 : Gregorius..ðone hæðenæ god, þe nane godcundnysse næfde, adræfde mid his tokime of his anlicnesse awæȝ.
- a1225(OE) Lamb.Hom.Pentec.(Lamb 487)95 : He nalde mid his to-cume þa sunfullen fordemen.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)153 : Mildheortnesse God kudde monne þa þe he sende his patriarken and propheten for to bodien his tokume.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)3 : We..ben on þesse þre wuken þe ben cleped aduent, þat is seggen on englis, ure louerd ihesu cristes tocume.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)3 : Ure louerd ihesu cristes tocumes ben tweien openliche: þe fireste is gon..And þat oðer tocume beð on domes dai.
- c1330 Otuel (Auch)996 : God hede to him nome, To sauen him til mi to-come.
- a1400(c1300) NHom.(1) Gosp.(Phys-E)p.8 : Cristes to com mad endinge Of al our soru.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.245 : He praied to hold him stille tille his tocome mot be, & he suld do his wille in alle þat skille mot se.
- ?a1400 Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Petyt 511)5576 : Mirth þei mad at þer tocome.
- a1425 Christ.Belief (LoC 4)10/353 : Þe holy men of þe hold laghe .. were in þ free preson of hell abiand [?read: abidand] þe to-come of Ihesu Crist.
b
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)64/1820 : Meseles mowe y-wedded be Ȝef hi asenti wylle..To nomene, Bote þe treuþege bare be Wyþ wordes of to comene.
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)65/1823 : Hy by-treuþed be Wiþ worde of nou ytake Oþer wyd wordes of to come.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)124.4 : He prayes þat he wate is tocum, that is, ese til goed men, and vengaunce til ill.