Middle English Dictionary Entry
unsufficientlī adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | unsufficientlī adv. Also (error) unsufficienti. |
| Etymology | From sufficientlī adv. or unsufficient adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Inadequately, incompetently; erroneously, unsatisfactorily; ?also, not in accordance with canon law, unjustly [quot. c1450].
Associated quotations
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)18 : Summe of hem [clerics] ben tretyng and teching vnsauerily, vnseemely, vnformaly, rudely, boistoseli, vnsufficiently, suspectly…and tretyng vntreuly and perilosely þe maters whiche þei taken an honde to trete…þe…vsers of…vnsauery and vnsufficiently teching bokis…schulen…se how myche nede þei han to verry and substancial clerkis whiche kunnen write bookis groundly…and treuly.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)66 : It fil into her conceit forto trowe ful soone, enformyng and tising ther to vnsufficienti [read: vnsufficientli] leerned clerkis, that God had mad or purueied the Bible to mennis bihoue.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)143/10 : One of þe cardynals, when he hard þis [judgment], began to gruche agayn þe pope, & said he demyd vnsufficientlie.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)10/39 : It is ful vnsemeli in prechouris, whiche leten hem silf in pulpit to be reulers and reformers and enformers of worþi peple…be so derk and so vnsufficientli felyng.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)204/24 : If þei semeden not as it were al oon…y wolde graunte þat y vnsufficientli nombrid þe poyntis of goddis lawe in þe ije, iije, and iiije tablis.