Middle English Dictionary Entry
waimenten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | waimenten v. Also waiment(e, weiment(e, weimenton, weimanton, wementen; ppl. waimenting(e, etc. & waimantende, (error) wethmentynge; p. waimented(e, waiment, (error) wayemettede. |
| Etymology | AF/ONF waimenter, AF weimenter, wementer, vars. of OF gaimenter. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To cry out in sorrow, wail, lament;—also refl.; also, have or feel sorrow, be sorrowful; ~ after, cry for (sth.), ?long in sorrow for;
(b) to bewail (sth.), lament.
Associated quotations
a
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)34.17 : Ich was lowed as man sori and waimentand.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.230 : The science to knowe the peynes that ben establised and ordeyned for synne…maketh a man to waymente [vrr. waymenten, weymentyn, weyment] in his herte.
- c1400(1375) Canticum Creat.(Trin-O 57)46 : Out of paradys he hem þrest and þeȝ ȝeden forþ in to þe west…Þere dwellede þeȝ sore waymantende Sixe dayes.
- c1400(1375) Canticum Creat.(Trin-O 57)177 : Alle þe fisches sorweden þore And waymentide wiþ Adam.
- c1400 Apoc.(2) (Hrl 171)95/8 : Þe marchauntis biers ben symonyens þat schulen make greete sorowe & drede whanne deeþ comeþ and pleyne hem & weymente for þei schulen forgo her fals goodis.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)36b/a : Lamentor: to weymanton [Hrl: to sorwyn; Cnt: to wayle and morene].
- a1425 Primer (Add 36683)75 : To thee we crien, outlawed sones of eue, to thee we siȝyen, wethmentynge [?read: weymentynge] and wepynge in this valei of teeris.
- a1425 St.Anthony (Roy 17.C.7)133/6 : Þe schypmen mad grete serges & candeles, & lyght before hys holy body, & euer þe deuelles waymentyn & cryyng in þe ayre.
- c1429 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)2872 : Marie sometyme was figured be Neomy, The whilk for hire two sons waymentid doelfully.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)520 : Weymenton, idem quod veylyn.
- c1440(a1400) Awntyrs Arth.(Thrn)107 : Bare was hir body, and blake to þe bone…It weryit, it wayemettede [vr. wayment] lyke a womane.
- a1450(c1400) Wor.Serm.(Wor F.10)29/232 : Iesu…ha mercy vp-on vs & deliuere vs owt oþ þe vowl siknes þat we wayment vndir.
- a1450 12 PTrib.(3) (Bod 423)57/5 : Right as it were foly to him that wolde be purged to chewe the piles that shulde be youen him…efte as gret foly it is…forto waymente after that that men mowen not haue…and brake that that men shuld swelwe.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)67/18 : Thus he complenys hym and wementys hym ryght sorofully.
- c1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Tbr A.7)19369 : Sathan the hunte weymentith And tormentyth with hym silffe.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)262 : He lenyd hym vpon his staff and be-gan to make grete sorowe; and whan he hadde thus hym longe waymented, he drof a-gein his bestes as though he wolde haue fledde to the forest.
b
- a1400 Pep.Gosp.(Pep 2498)97/31 : Þo folowed hym…many wymmen þat pleyneden Jesu and waymenteden his deþ.