Middle English Dictionary Entry
blọ̄men v.
Entry Info
| Forms | blọ̄men v. Also blume. |
| Etymology | ON; cp. OI blōmandi blooming, flourishing. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To come into flower, bloom, flower; (b) fig. to flourish, increase, abound, grow.
Associated quotations
a
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2061 : Orest it blomede, and siðen bar ðe beries ripe.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)212b/a : Some trees and herbes blomeþ and þe blosome comeþ of smal humour..þat is in þe piþþe.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)10743 : His wand suld blome.
- c1410 Chaucer CT.Mch.(Cmb Dd.4.24)E.1462 : A tree That blomyth er þat fruyt I-wexen be.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)136/28 : Ȝon tre how þat it blomyght.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)15b : To Blome [vr. Blume]: fflorere, florescere.
b
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)3636 : Godess þeowwess blomenn aȝȝ Inn alle gode þæwess.
- c1390 Disp.Virg.& Cross (Vrn)108 : Þat Blosme Blomed vp in þi [Mary's] bour.
- a1400 NVPsalter (Vsp D.7)71.16 : Blome [WB(1): floure; L florebunt] sal þai [his offspring]..als fra erthe does hai.
- a1450(1400) Eche man be war (Dgb 102)62 : Lete no falshed blome ne sede.
- a1450 Ch.Feasts (Roy 18.A.10)245 : A childe þat choisly chees In maydenes blode to blome.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)157/164 : Þe childe..Blomyd in a madenys body.