Middle English Dictionary Entry
trist(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | trist(e adj. Also trest, (error) truste. |
| Etymology | OF trist & triste. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Feeling emotional or mental distress; disconsolate, sad, dejected; sorrowful; also, as noun: those in a state of mental distress [quot. c1475]; (b) expressive of grief; (c) characterized by sorrow.
Associated quotations
a
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.4469 : Þi [Mars'] wrath..causest men to be longe & lene, Consumpt, sklendre, broun & ceferyn hewed, Vnmerciable & riȝt evele thewed..Trist and soleyn & ful of hevines.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.1686 : Whan þis kyng knewe fully of his broþer Agamenoun mordre and euerydel, He was ful trist & liked no þing wel, But inwardly felt ful grete smerte.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)1216 : This worthy kyng hadde sone non To succede after he be gon, For which he was duryng al his lyff Trist in hert, passingly pensif.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)3927 : And they of Thebes hasting a gret pas, Ful trist and hevy, ben entred into toun.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)4627 : To-foor the beelding..Of gret Rome..the ladies partyd from Arge To her contres ful trest and desolat.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)1.3767 : Iocasta stood thus disconsolat..Withoute confort or consolacioun..off al hope fulli disespeired, Trist and heuy, pensiff & spak no woord.
- ?a1450(1422) Lydg.SD (McC 182)56/28 : Þei [read: Þere] aperid vnto him an olde Auncien lady triste and drery in a mantell of blake, wympled hir face toforne in full dolerous wise..This wofull ladye toforeseide bigan hir lamentable compleynt to Iulius.
- ?a1450(1422) Lydg.SD (McC 182)63/25 : Cesar gan to sigh and compleyne..And þus ful truste [read: triste] and heuy he..fully purposed him..to take vpon hym..some newe Emprices of hiȝe prowes.
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)2473 : Þaas þat war heeuy and tryst he couthe comforth þaim in crist.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.Prayer Leonard (LdMisc 683)26 : Sobre & appese suych folk as falle in furie; To trist and heuy do mytygacyoun.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)572 : With that these thre knyghtes be lepte on theire horse, but the tother thre be trist and dolent.
b
- a1450(c1433) Lydg.St.Edm.(Hrl 2278)388/634 : To yonge Edmond they presente up the ryng..taccepte his heritage. His fadir Alkmond, trist in compleynyng, Kepte his chambre, wered his clothis blake, From al peple his persone absentyng Til be processe his sorwe gan aslake.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)9.1310 : Next..with trist & ded visage vnto Bochas to shewe his heuynesse came Iocelyn.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)9.1342 : As verray heir and trewe successour..Cam Andronicus..with trist & pale visage, Besechyng hym [Bochas]..To remembre his woful auenture.
c
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)6741 : Eftirward fell tyme triste; In þe eght hundreth ȝere of criste, Seuenty and fyue to þaim putt, To england fell a sary cutt.