Middle English Dictionary Entry
tọ̄̆dai adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | tọ̄̆dai adv. Also todaie & (early) todæi, -dæȝ, -dæ(i)g, -dei, tedai, tedei, (Orm.) todaȝȝ. |
| Etymology | OE tō-dæg |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) On this day, today; also as adj. [quot. ?c1475, 1st]; ~ seven-night, ~ thrid dai, a week from today, three days from today; nou ~, on this very day; (b) on this day of the year in the past; nou ~; (c) in proverbs, prov. expressions, and stock phrases; (d) as noun: this day, the present day; also in prov. expressions.
Associated quotations
a
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.656 : Ic Wulfere gife to dæi Sancte Petre and þone abbode Saxulf..þas landes and þas wateres and meres.
- a1150(?OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)22/3 : Þu eart min bearn for þan ic þe todæig asænde to mannen.
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)10/21 : Ic wilniȝe þet ðu sulle me þet þet ic to dæȝ iseah ðær ðu inne wære.
- c1200 Wor.Serm.in EGSt.7 (Wor Q.29)4 : Nu it is soþed: to dei he is iboren.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)5415 : Forr þa shall Godess kinedom All all swillc beon onn eorþe, Alls itt iss upp inn heoffness ærd To daȝȝ wiþþ Godess enngless.
- c1225 St.Juliana (Roy 17.A.27)48/412 : He þe king..helle bule haueð ouercumen te dei beli al baldest of helle.
- a1275 *St.Marg.(2) (Trin-C B.14.39)264 : Today þou scalt ben icrounet biforn þe king of heuene.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)2714 : To-daie a seouen-nihte bringeð me her rihtte gold & gersume.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)2721 : Ȝif ȝe spekeð mid rihte, comeð to-dæi a seouen-nihte.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)4001 : Cesar wolde nu to-dæi Brut-lond biwinnen.
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)5/46 : Þi lond folk we schulle slon, And alle þat Crist luueþ vpon..Ne schaltu todai henne gon.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3473 : Ne ist nogt moyses, amrame sune, Ðe ge sulen to-dai here speken.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)51/5 : Huanne he arist, he begynþ his matyns and his benes and his oreysones and zayþ, 'a god, huet ssolle we ete to day?'
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)p.180 : Þe liueand shal shryue to þe leuiand as ich to-daie.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1989 : Ich have wonder where my douȝter today dwelles þus longe.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Sum.(Manly-Rickert)D.2176 : 'I haue,' quod he, 'had a despit to day.'
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)397 : Þou schal siker me..Þat þou schal seche me..& foch þe such wages As þou deles me to-day bifore þis douþe ryche.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)7583 : Am I to day youre herbegere?
- c1450(c1400) Sultan Bab.(Gar 140)898 : Oure goddis holpe vs not to daye.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)169/201 : Ȝour lytyl childe so ȝynge presentyth to-day be my shewyng..ȝour sonys offrynge.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)128b : Today..hodiernus.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)128b : Today thrydday: Nudiustercius.
- a1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)39/19 : Whan thow art amonge thy barons..Pray one to come to the to-day, and another to-morow, and brynge them in as their degree asketh.
- a1500(?a1475) Guy(4) (Cmb Ff.2.38)291 : Yf y therfore schall dye to daye, Y wyll hur of loue praye.
b
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)43/12 : Heo nu todæig wulderfullice of þan lichame gewat.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)45/33 : Witodlice nu todæig þæt wulderfulle mæden heofones asteah.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)45/35 : Seo heofonlice cwen wearð todæg generod fram þyssere manfullen wurlde.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)3 : Þe helend nehlechede to-ward ierusalem þare burh to dei.
c
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)21 : Þe wrecche sunfulle ne elde nawiht þet he ne ga to bote þe wile he mei: to dei he mei, tomarȝan hit him is awane.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)143/7 : Ille hodie ego cras, þet is, he to dei & ich to marhen.
- a1275(?c1150) Prov.Alf.(Trin-C B.14.39)112/378 : Ȝif þu hauist a frend to-day & to-moreuin driuist him awei, þenne besþu one, al so þu her were.
- 1372 ME Verse in Grimestone PB (Adv 18.7.21)p.24 : He þat kepth him nouth to-day fro harm To-morwen may gon to pine.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ecclus.10.12 : So & a king to dai is, & to morewe shal dien.
- c1390 Ilke a wys (Vrn)56 : Of erþly ese þis is þe ende: Here to-day, a-wey to-morn.
- c1390 Þe wyse mon in (Vrn)127 : Schewe not þin herte outerliche To þi seruaunt..To-day he is wiþ þe, to-morwe he flit.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)4.2216 : For he that stant to day alofte..Tomorwe he falleth al at ones.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.4316 : Far-wel to-morwe, þouȝ it be sure to-day.
- (c1426) Audelay Poems (Dc 302)165/26 : Þis wordle honour..fadis as a flour, To-day is fresche in his colour, To-morow he gyrdis to grownd.
- c1475 Prov.Wisd.(RwlPoet 32)116 : We shall dye, I nott, how son: To day a man, to morow non.
- a1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)10255 : To-day borne, to-morwe on bere.
d
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)123 : Easter dei..nu bið to dei on fowertene niht.
- c1275 Ken.Serm.(LdMisc 471)220/199 : Hure lord godalmichti to us spekeþ ine þo holi godespelle of te day.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)3100 : To day ys hegh, te morwe ys lowe.
- a1450(?1404) As þe see (Dgb 102)198 : To-day is quyk, to-morwe is fay.