Middle English Dictionary Entry
vendāǧe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | vendāǧe n. Also vindage, vindache, (error) bondage. |
| Etymology | AL vindagium, vendagium & AF vendage (var. of vendenge). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. vintage n.
1.
(a) The produce of the vineyard during one season, vintage; also fig.; ?also, a stage in the making of wine [quot. a1425];
(b) the gathering of ripe grapes, the grape harvest; also, the time or season of such harvesting; ~ time, dai of ~, time of vendages; ~ appareil, preparations for gathering grapes.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Lev.25.5 : Þe grapes of þy ferst frutys as vyndache [vr. vyndage; L vindemiam] þou shalt not gedere.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Esd.10.37 : Wee bringen forþ…þe firste of oure metis & of oure sacrifises of liquoures & appelis of eche tree, also of vyndage & of oile, brynge wee to preestis to þe tresorie of þe lord.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Is.24.7 : Weilede þe vyndage, feblid is þe vyne.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)18.367 : May no drynke me moiste ne my thruste slake Tyl þe vendage [C vr. ventage] falle in þe vale of iosephath.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)69b/a : Vindumo: to make wyne or vendage [Hrl 1738: bondage; Cnt: vyntage].
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)619/28 : Vindemix [?read: Vindemia]: vendage.
b
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Lev.26.5 : Þe þressynge of repyn tylþys shal atake þe vindage, & þe vindage shal ocupye þe sowynge tyme.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ecclus.24.37 : A king…sendiþ disciplyne as liȝt and stondinge to as Jyon in þe dai of vyndage.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)388/22 : Or oþerwise putte quyk addres in wyne in þe vyndages [*Ch.(1): tyme of vyntages] with epithyme…And it schal be laxatyf.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)tab.496 : Vyne couerynge and vindage apparayle.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.1091 : Thi vines swyn wol delue after vyndage.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)10.114 : This mone in placis warme & nygh the see, Vyndage is hugely to solempnyse.
- c1450(c1400) Vices & V.(2) (Hnt HM 147)32/7 : Oþere bieþ þinges whan þei beþ lest worþ, as in heruest, corn, in vendage tyme, wyn…for to sylle two so derrere.