Middle English Dictionary Entry
unvī̆sī̆ble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | unvī̆sī̆ble adj. |
| Etymology | From vī̆sī̆ble adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Not perceptible to the sight, invisible; also, concealed [last quot.].
Associated quotations
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Col.1.16 : In hym alle thingis ben maad, in heuenes and in erthe, visible and vnuysible, ether trones, ether dominaciouns, ether princehodes, [etc.].
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)1 Tim.1.17 : To the king of worldis, vndeedli and vnvysible [WB(1): invisyble] God aloone, be onour and glorie in to worldis of worldis.
- c1425 Chaucer CT.Mk.(Petw 7)B.3790 : Vnvysible [Heng: God…hym so soore smoot With invisible wounde].
- c1450(?c1400) Wycl.Elucid.(StJ-C G.25)11 : A soule hath vndirstonding, bi which he vndirstondeþ visible þinges & unvysible.
- c1450(?a1405) Lydg.CBK (Frf 16)623 : Vulcanus…with a cheyne vnvisible yow bounde.
- c1450 When the son (Frf 16)311 : A fayry…ys vnvysyble.
- a1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.274 : Haue þyn gostly eye principaly to þingis þat arn to comyn & ȝit ben vnvisible.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)162/23 : He ordeyned to hem þe same verrey flesshe and blode that was ascendid in-to heuene and that þei hadde afore visible to be with hem as verreyly but vnvisible, scilicet, in lickenes of brede and wyne.