Middle English Dictionary Entry
untal adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | untal adj. |
| Etymology | From tal adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Of the heart as the seat of the spirit: ?daunted, discouraged; ?fractious, unruly, obdurate.
Associated quotations
- c1390 Bi a wey (Vrn)110 : Diuerse sondes crist haþ I-sent…Þauȝ þat vr bodies ben brouȝt in bace, Let not ȝor hertes ben vn-tal [vrr. Lat not thy hert a-down falle; lok ȝour herte be good and stal]; And þenk þat god is þer he was And euer to þonken him of al.