Middle English Dictionary Entry
unhōl(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | unhōl(e adj. Also (N or early) unhal(e & (early) unhala, onhol(e, ounhole, (acc.) unhalne; comp. (early) unholre, unhalre. |
| Etymology | OE unhāl |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Physically unhealthy, sick, infirm; of food or drink: unwholesome, unhealthful [quot. c1230, 2nd]; as noun: a sick person;—also coll.; also, a diseased part of the body [quot. c1230, 1st];
(b) spiritually imperfect or unsound, lacking spiritual health; also, sinful; also, dishonest [last quot.]; of the heart: troubled;
(c) poorly made, imperfect.
Associated quotations
a
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)88/19 : He wæs se ilca Tirus swa unhal on his andwliten…þe cancre…him wæs on þan nebbe fram þan swyðre nosþyrlle, oððet hit com to þan ege.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)35/8 : Gif man si innan unhal oððer him wlatie þanna nime betonica twa trimesan, [etc.].
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.MQuad.(Hrl 6258B)263/18 : To slæpe fulfes [read: wulfes] heafod leȝe under þane pule: se unhala slæped.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)9393 : Ȝiff þatt tin eȝhe iss all unnhal Wiþþinnenn o þe sene, Itt shuneþþ…Þe sunness brihhte leome.
- a1225(OE) Lamb.Hom.VA (Lamb 487)101 : Oferlifa on hete and on wete macað þene mon un-halne and his saule gode ladeð.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)57/605 : Þu [Christ] healdest alle unhale & te deade of deaðe.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)61/3 : Þus lo þe hale half & te cwike dale droh þet uuele blod ut frommard te unhale & healde swa þe seke.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)188/15 : Ne nomen neauer ȝeme hweat wes hal, hwet unhal to eoten ne to drinken.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)9803 : Gan to þas kinges dale swulc heo weoren vn-hale [vr. on-hole].
- ?a1300 Sayings St.Bede (Dgb 86)326 : God seyþ, ‘ȝu se mine Povere ounhole hine Þat to oure dore come.’
- c1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)15770 : Wel ich wene þat Oswi his swiþe on-hol and in bedde ligge.
- c1450(c1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy [OD col.] (Glo 19)No.1, Bk.1, ch.4, fol.12 : Ellys the body is vnholl & ther after schewith him the vryn.
- c1390 NHom.Giezi (Vrn)32 : Þerfore þou and þi sones vchon schul beo vn hole as was Naaman.
- a1400(c1300) NHom.(1) Gosp.(Phys-E)p.35 : I gif the blind…thair siht, I ger the halt men ga riht, I mac unhale men al hale.
- a1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)13262 : He…heled mony þat were seke; Þe vnhole faste to him souȝt.
- a1425 Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Wel 225)376/5903 : Bod in þe 3[rd] spyce…it infectys þe eyne & þe body in acuis & in bodys þat are unhale & mykyll disposyd to maladiis.
b
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)60/19 : Crist…com to mancynne þæt he wolde þa synfulle gerihtlæcen & heora sawlen gehælen; Se þe wenð þæt he hal sy, se is unhal, þæt is, se þe truweð on his agene rihtwisnysse, & ne hogeð be þan heofonlice læcedome.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)86/24 : Seoððen þah nes he meiden neauer þe unhalre [Nero: unholre], ah wes meiden, bitaht meiden to witene.
- a1300 PMor.(Jes-O 29)114 : Nis no witnesse al so muchel so monnes owe heorte, For so seyþ þat vnhol is him seolue hwat him smeorteþ.
- a1400(c1300) NHom.(1) Giezi (Phys-E)p.132 : Sua held he gastli mankinne That was vnhal wit filth of sinne.
- a1400(c1300) NHom.(1) Gosp.(Phys-E)p.129 : Man quaim sinne mad vnhale Hafd noht ben bette of his bale Bot yef crist haued til him comen.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)1681 : His hert heldet unhole, he hoped non oþer Bot a best þat he be, a bol oþer an oxe.
- a1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)20/69 : In hert he was vnhale; He come þare moste for mede.
c
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)23563 : For-þi þat godd has ai wroght al, Of his werkes es noght vnhale [Trin-C: vnhool].