Middle English Dictionary Entry
unsaught n.
Entry Info
Forms | unsaught n. Also unsauȝt, unsauht, (N) unsaght & (early) unsæhte, unsehte. |
Etymology | From saught(e n. or LOE unseht n., the vowel of which may have been altered through influence of ON (cp. OI ūsātt & ūsætt). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Discord, strife, hostility; mid ~, hostilely, not peaceably; seien ~ of, ?to falsely accuse (sb.) so as to cause discord; ?libel (sb.).
Associated quotations
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1106 : Rotbert de Bælesme mid un sehte fram þam cynge ut of þison lande into Normandige for.
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1111 : He ferde ofer sæ into Normandig for un sehte þe wið him hæfdon sume be þam gemæran of France.
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1116 : Mæst þis unsehte wæs forþan þe se cyng Henri fylste his nefan þam eorle Tædbalde de Blais, þe þa wyrre hæfde to geanes his hlaforde þam cynge of France Loðewis.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)5715 : Bute þu wisliche bitæche; þine kineriche, wulleð Romleode cumen to þissere þeode…& maken vnsæhte & binimen us ure irihten.
- c1390 Form Conf.(1) (Vrn)341 : In Wrathe I ȝelde me gulti, Ofte-tyme beryng wrathe in myn herte aȝeyn myn euencristne, and haue maad vnsauȝt [vr. vnsauht] disyring for to beo venged on hem.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)28198 : Wit flitt, wit brixil, striue, and strut Myn euen-cristen haue i hurt, And oft vn-saght o him i said.