Middle English Dictionary Entry
tribulen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | tribulen v. Also trib(b)le; p. tribulde; ppl. tribled, triblide, (error) tribluled. |
| Etymology | OF triboler, AF trib(u)ler & OF tribler (var. of triuler) & L trībulāre. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. troublen v., turblen v.
1.
(a) To disturb (sb., the soul), disquiet, trouble; ppl. tribuland as noun: those who afflict (sb.), oppressors, adversaries; (b) to crush (sth.), pound; also, ?stir up (sth.) [1st quot.]; ~ ther-of, ?separate part of a mixture.
Associated quotations
a
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)38.9 : Man for-soþe in likenes [passeþ]; ac in vayn he hys tribled [vr. sturblyd].
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)54.2 : Ich am made sori in my haunteyng, and am tribluled [?read: tribuled] fram þe voice of myn enemy.
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)105.11 : Þe water couerd þe trybuland [vr. trublyng] hem.
- c1415 Chaucer CT.SN.(Lnsd 851)G.72 : Triblide [Heng: Of thy light my soule in prison lighte That troubled is by the contagioun Of my body].
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)14/11 : Þe abbatiss..if I hurte hir neuer so ill..lete me alone..& tribulde me nothyng.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)9.22 : Thou suffirs vs to be angird and tribled.
b
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)224 : Trybble flum of leed, & do hyt in þe wounde whyþ þe jus of þe samne, & hyt schal cast hyt out.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)225 : Pro vulneribus..Tak þe jus of alle þese & boile hyt wyþ sayme tyl hyt be þykke, wyþ þe rote of egletyn, & lappe hyt in acool wort leef & bake hyt in aschyn & þerof tryble & do þerto.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)226 : Pro omni vulnere: Tak Bugle, pygle, sanycle, osmund..& pulyol; trible al, & drynk þe jus.