Middle English Dictionary Entry
urgent adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | urgent adj. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
In phrases ~ causes, causes ~, pressing matters, compelling reasons; ?also, ?sharp words.
Associated quotations
- (1457) LRed Bk.Bristol2.184 : Sirs William Canyng…and William Damme…ffor grete, vrgentt, and necessary causes theym mevyng…have ordeigned…ye ordinaunce and actes that hereafter foloweth.
- (1472-3) RParl.6.39b : For dyvers full urgent causes and maters allegged unto us, it is full neccessary and requisite to provide ferther for the contentation of the wages of said xiii m men Archers.
- (1478) Let.Cely (PRO S.C.1 53/198 [draft])p.15 (16/18) : Y am enformed there was bytwene Thomas Blakham and my wyf causes vrgent, for the which Y haue had her in sharp examynacion .., but .. suche language þat was reported .. was not by her spoken nor seyde.