Middle English Dictionary Entry
undercasten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | undercasten v. Also undercast, undirkesten, ondircast(e; p. undercaste, undirkast; ppl. undercast(e, underkest, undircastin, undurcast, undrecast, ondercast. |
| Etymology | From casten v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To pour (sth. on the ground) underneath a vine.
Associated quotations
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.1155 : Of vines that forwepe…the fattest roote away they tere…And aisel kene is vnderkest in ground [L sub hac…fundatur].
2.
(a) To overcome (sb.), subdue; place (sth.) in subjugation; refl. subordinate oneself (to sb.); make oneself subject (to sth.), enslave oneself, succumb; ben undercaste, be subject; be subject (to sb.); also, be in a state of submission (to the divine mind); ppl. undercaste, made subject to someone or something, having a subordinate status;
(b) ben undercaste, to be subject (to a specified penalty), be liable; be assessed (a fine).
Associated quotations
a
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Wisd.18.22 : In woord hym þat ouertrauailede hym he vndercaste [WB(2): made…suget; L subiecit].
- a1425(a1400) Paul.Epist.(Corp-C 32)1 Cor.15.27 : Alle thynges he has vndyrcast vndyr hys feet.
- a1425(a1400) Paul.Epist.(Corp-C 32)1 Cor.15.28 : Alle thynges schal ben vndyrcast to hym.
- a1425(c1400) 5 Wits (Hrl 2398)32/9 : Sche [soul] haþ…vndercaste hireself to þes lewede delites of þes bodyly þynges.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)63a/a : Subicio: vndercast [StJ-C: vnder casten] or make soget.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.158 : In gret parell thow schalt be vndercaste Of thy suggettes whiche þat [mowe] perchaunce The mortheren.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.318 : Full iust it schulde mannes resoun seme To be subiect and vndercast all-way Vnto devyne þoght.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)614/9 : Subjectus: vndurcast.
- 1468 *Medulla (StJ-C C.22)105a/a : Subiectus: Vndercast [Pep: vndyr castyn; Add 33534: ondercast; Hrl 2257: vndre cast] or subiecte.
- ?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)2.37.118a : Þen forsakiþ he vtterly himself & vndirkestiþ him holly to ihesu.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)88b : To ondircaste [Monson: Ondyr cast]: Subicere, subiectare.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)8.7 : All thyngis thou vndirkast vndir his fete.
- a1500(1413) ?Hoccl.Poems PS (Eg 615)p.xxvi/109 : Vnder-cast þou art of hye malice And subiecte, thu madist thi selfe, to vice.
b
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ex.21.21 : Ȝif…he lyue over o day or two he schal not be vndercast [vr. vndurcast] to þat peyn.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ex.21.22 : He schall be vndercast to þe harme as mich as þe hosbonde of þe womman wyll aske.
3.
Associated quotations
- 1448 *Glo.Chron.C (Arms 58:Kooper)f.175v : [He] seide his fader ones was in the same purpos .. and in the same wyse the wynde was ayenst him, And seyde hit was ffoly to man to assay and vndercast thynges whan God were founde the contrarie by experience in the doyng.