Middle English Dictionary Entry
undern-tīde n.
Entry Info
| Forms | undern-tīde n. Also undernetide, undornetide, underentide, undoruntide, undrentide, undrintide, undrontide, unþrentide & undertid(e, underetide, hondertide, (early) undertið & (error) undetide. |
| Etymology | OE undern-tīd |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. undern-time n.
1.
(a) The third hour of the day, 9 a.m.; also, morning; ~ of (the) dai;
(b) midday, noontime.
Associated quotations
a
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)120/6 : Emben undertide, þa þa se broðer wæs gewunod to mæssigen, tobursten þa bændes oftest.
- a1225(OE) Lamb.Hom.Pentec.(Lamb 487)91 : Hit is undertid—hu mihte we on þissere tide beon for-drencte?
- c1330 7 Sages(1) (Auch)10/164 : To morewe, ar vndertide of dai, þou schalt him sen.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)985 : Adam…was wroght at vndern tide [Frf: vndorun tide], At middai eue draun of his side.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)21931 : It sal him last ful littel quil: For if it be at vnder tide [Göt: vndrin tide; Phys-E: undorne tide], It sal noght to þe none abide.
- a1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)18972 : We er noght drunkin als ȝe say, It ne es bot vnþren tide [Vsp: vndrin] of þe day.
- a1425 HBk.GDei (Hnt HM 148)105/4 : Þai spendid þer tyme in holy spech of hym þat þaim boght…to þe vndere-tyde of þe secunde daye.
- c1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)810 : Þys day at vnderne tyde…Out of þys castell To Karlof J schall ryde!
b
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)204/25 : Þe soðe sunne iþe undertid [Cai: undertið] wes for þi istihen on heh o þe hehe rode forte spreaden ouer al hate luue gleames.
- c1330(?c1300) Bevis (Auch)1756 : Þus þai leide on in boþe side Be-twene midmorwe & vndetide [read: vndertide].
- c1330 Orfeo (Auch)7/65 : Dame Heurodis Tok to maidens of priis & went in an vndrentide [vrr. vnder-tyde, vndron-tyde] To play bi an orchard-side.
- c1330 Orfeo (Auch)26/282 : He miȝt se him bisides, Oft in hot vnder-tides, Þe king o fairy wiþ his rout Com to hunt him al about.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.23 : In an underentyde [vr. hondertyde; L hora meridiana] while kyng Edgar lay on his bed to reste, on appered to hym and smot hym on þe breest wiþ a spere.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)487/22 : Þe sonne…is hoot in þe vndernetide and pale at euen.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)19830 : Þan was it vnderntide o þe dai, þat es þat ilk time to sai þat petre went him for to prai.
- c1450(?a1400) Chestre Launfal (Clg A.2)210 : Sadel and brydel lene þou me A whyle for to ryde Þat y myȝte confortede be By a launde vnþer þys cyte Al yn þys vndern-tyde.