Middle English Dictionary Entry
transversā̆l(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | transversā̆l(e adj. Also transversel, (error) transuerale; pl. transversales. |
| Etymology | ML transversālis; also cp. AF transversal. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Lying across, placed across; ?also, as adv.: crosswise [quot. ?1440, 1st]; (b) as noun: something that lies crosswise; a crosspiece.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425 Chauliac(1) (NY 12:Wallner)3.26/21 : Þe ligamentez..þat byndeþ þe shuldre oweþ to haue in breede 6 fyngers transuersale [vr. transversalez]; which byndeþ þe thie, 5, which þe legge, 4.
- ?a1425 Chauliac(1) (NY 12:Wallner)3.27/19 : In the spacez atuix 2 poyntez it shal holde the space of a fynger transuersale [vr. transuerale], i. ouerthwerte.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)2.19 : To wite yf al be wel, thy self aloon Transuersal thorgh the forghis euerichoon Let russhe a rodde.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)6.179 : A double cours of boording first hit haue, Oon transuersal, another cours directe.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)37b/a : Mirac is compouned of þe vttere skyn of þe wombe & of lacertous discendynge from þe brest & ascendynge from þe schare & of summe þat comeþ out on eiþir side, of whiche summe beþ longitudinel and summe latitudinel & summe transuersel.
b
- ?a1425 Chauliac(1) (NY 12:Wallner)1.90/5 : It [eye] haþ biside it cartilaginous palpebrez with determinate heres spering or closyng þe ouermost with one muscle & openyng wiþ 2 transuersalez.
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)148 : Þere is a grete pees of þe holy crosse mor þan a fote long and ii unch brood and a unch þik in schap of a crosse with his transuersal and his standard.
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)153 : Þe trees of þe crosse wer palme, cedre, cipresse, and oliue. Whech was þe standard, whech þe transuersale, or whech þe title is ful hard to know.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)37b/a : By þe longitudinel is maad parfiȝt þe attractif vertu and by þe latitudynel þe expulsif vertu and by þe transuersel þe retentif vertu.