Middle English Dictionary Entry
unēsen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | unēsen v. P.ppl. unēsed, uneased, unhēsed, oneasid. |
| Etymology | From ēsen v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) In phrase: ben unesed, to be injured or disabled;
(b) to cause physical discomfort to (one’s body), incommode;
(c) to encumber (sth.) physically, enmesh, entangle.
Associated quotations
a
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)14481 : Vnnethes of vs is any That we [n]are wounded or vnhesed, Strongly hurt or envysed.
b
- c1425 Mirror LM&W (Hrl 45)119/37 : He wole noght vnese his body for no seruice ne worschip of God.
c
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.562 : Cannetes old ek tyme is now to wede, And of to kytte hit that their roote vneseth.
2.
(a) In phrase: ben unesed, to be troubled, disturbed, or upset; also, be distressed (about sth.); be displeased (with sb.); unesed of herte, uneasy in spirit, troubled of heart;
(b) ppl. unesed as noun: those who are troubled in mind or spirit.
Associated quotations
a
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)5054 : He…Costreynes him with his contenance to with his kniȝtis play, Bot þat bot sprang of þe splene, þe sprite was vn-esid.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.84 : Þis [man] haþ ysshue to hys lust perchaunce, Yit happeth of þeire vice he is vnesed.
- (1456) Paston2.143 : Myn Lord Bukingham rode…to Writell, noo þing weel plesid and sumwhat on-easid of herte.
- (1464) RParl.5.568a : The comon people thorough the Reame is gretely uneased therby.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.253 : Had I men that ment Myne honeste, I were not thus diseased, With suche a clerke thus greued and vneased.
b
- c1425 Mirror LM&W (Hrl 45)127/39 : The synnes of leuynge of good vndo beth þese: hauynge noght God in þoght…conforte not þe sory and the vnesed.