Middle English Dictionary Entry
tribūtārī n.
Entry Info
| Forms | tribūtārī n. Pl. tribūtārī(e)s, tribūtāriī. |
| Etymology | L tribūtārius n.; cp. AF tributarie, var. of OF tributaire. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A person, country, people, etc. owing obedience or paying tribute or a tax to a sovereign, another people, etc.; (b) glossing L vectigal: a tax, tribute.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Josh.17.13 : After forsoþe þat þe childryn of Irael weryn rekeuered, þei sogettedyn þe chananeys & madyn trybutaries to hem & slowyn hem nouȝt.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.103 : Iudea is i-take in many manere..and so it is i-take in þis speche: 'Þe grete Pompeius made Iudea tributaries.'
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.275 : Sicambri, þat beeþ Frensche men, were tributarii to Rome longe tyme to fore Valentinianus is tyme..But..hadde hire tribute forȝeue for ten ȝere for to werre aȝenst Alani.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.383 : Þerfore men of Athene þat were tributarii [Higd.(2): tributaries] to forhonde were quyt and free of al tribute.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)181.17 : In euery prouynce is a kyng And þeise kynges han kynges vnder hem, & alle ben tributaries [OF tributaires] to Prestre Iohn.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)8/14 : Þare er also many oþer diuerse cuntreez and spechez þat er tributaries and obeyand to þe emperour.
- a1450 Mandev.(3) (BodeMus 116)99/31 : Vndyr his subieccioun and his obseruaunce arn lx and xii pr[ou]inces, and in eche a kyng, that arn his tributaryes.
- c1450 De CMulieribus (Add 10304)1754 : Anodyre, for that she hir avengid, Made them tributaryes, euery ȝere payynge A grete taxe after hir own axynge.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)2.391 : That peple of Scitia..fauȝhte myȝhtely ageyne men of Asia, and made theym theire tributaries.
- a1500 Methodius(3) (Stw 953)571 : All crystendom to þem I fynde And trybutarys wern hem too.
b
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)393 : Trybutary..vectigal.