Middle English Dictionary Entry
urne n.
Entry Info
| Forms | urne n. Also urin, ourne. |
| Etymology | L urna |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A vessel, an urn; specif., an urn to contain the ashes of the dead.
Associated quotations
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.5676 : At his hede of gold was an ourne Þat was filde with bawme natural.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.314 : He closed hem [ashes] in an vrne of golde Ful reuerently.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)4575 : The wommen round aboute stood…with vrnes made of gold, whan the asshes fully weren made cold Tenclosyn hem.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)5.311 : The poudre in which myn herte ybrend shal torne, That preye I the thow take and it conserve In a vessell that men clepeth an urne of gold.
- c1450(?a1422) Lydg.LOL (Dur-U Cosin V.2.16)4.122 : The pece of his Incision was by an Angell in an vrne [vr. uryn] of golde To Charles brought.