Middle English Dictionary Entry
with prep.
Entry Info
Forms | with prep. Also with(th)e, witht, witȝ(t, wit, wiȝth(e, wiȝ(t, wiht, wid, wighe, wiv, weth(e, wuth, wt, whith(e, whit, uit, vith(e, vit, (before th or t) wi, whi & (early) wih(d, vid, (in surname) wich- & (errors) wȝ, þit. Contractions: we (= with the), wis (= with his). |
Etymology | OE wiþ, wyþ, wit, wid, uiþ prep.; with prep. is freq. used postpositively in ME. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. forth-with prep., for-with prep., mid prep.(1).
1a.
Directly opposite to (sth.) in space or location, facing over against; face ~ face, mouth ~ mouth, neb ~ neb, face to face; fighten honde ~ honde, to fight hand to hand, fight in close combat.
Associated quotations
- a1150(c1125) Vsp.D.Hom.Fest.Virg.(Vsp D.14)39/219 : Heo gesihð hire sune eall ealswa he is, neb wið nebb.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)105 (2nd occurrence) : He…bigan to turnen þe iuele to gode mid his wise wordes þe he wið hem spec muð wið muðe.
- a1225 Lamb.Hom.Pater N.(Lamb 487)61/110 : Cristes wille bo us bitwon neb wið neb for him to son.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)89 : Hond wið honde fuhten þa heȝe men.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)939 : Heo ȝeokeden heora earmes & ȝarweden heom-seoluan, breoste wið breoste; banes þer crakeden.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)244/10 : Hi ssolle y-zi face wyþ face.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)1.m.5.7 : The moone…schynynge…hir fulle hornes metynge with [L obvia] alle the beemes of the sonne…hideth the sterres that ben lasse.
1b.
(a) Against (sb. or sth., God, the soul, etc.), in opposition to, with hostile intent toward; fighten (haven ado, striven, etc.) ~; haven unsaught ~, to have strife with (sb., a country), engage in hostilities against; helpen ~, help (sb.) in a struggle against (an enemy);
(b) with expressions of arguing, debating, disputing, etc.: against (sb.), with; also, with expressions of passing judgment: against (sb.), upon; chiden (fliten) ~, to berate (sb., oneself);
(c) with expressions of defending, protecting, resisting, warning, etc.: against (sb. or sth., an action, a natural phenomenon, etc.), from;
(d) with expressions of anger, hostility, envy, etc.: against (sb., oneself, or sth.), at, toward [the precise gloss is highly contextual];
(e) med. & veter. as a remedy for (a pathological condition, disease, etc.), against, for;
(f) in contrast to (sth.), over against, as opposed to.
Associated quotations
a
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1104 : He wið þone cyng geworhte.
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1111 : Innan August he ferde ofer sæ into Normandig for unsehte þe wið him hæfdon sume be þam gemæran of France.
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1112 : Eall þis gear wunode se cyng Henri on Normandig for þære unsehte þe he hæfde wið France.
- a1126 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1124 : Þa comen hem togeanes þes kinges cnihtes of ealla þa casteles ða þær abuton wæron & fuhton wið hem.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)96/16 : Gyf ge forgyfeð þan mannen, þe wið eow synegieð, þonne forgyfð eow se arfæste Fæder eower synnen.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)34/6 : God us forȝife ure gyltæs wið him.
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)12/6 : Soðlice ic sungode miclum wið mine drihten.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)4739 : Idellleȝȝc iss hæfedd plihht & wiþþreþþ wiþþ þin sawle.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)15 : Monimon seið…ȝif þa laȝe weren nu, nalde na mon mis-don wið oðre.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)27 : Ȝif þu ert…for-gult wið þine…lauerd, he þe wule forbeode of his eȝane on siht.
- a1275 *St.Marg.(2) (Trin-C B.14.39)98 : Þo isei þe saresin þat him nes no bot to striuen wid þat meidan.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)2172 : He wiht þe othliche fæht.
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)13/186 : Vs he dude lede In to a galeie wiþ þe se to pleie.
- c1330(?c1300) Guy(1) (Auch)872 : Oȝaines sir Gij þer come Gayer; To iuste wiþ him he drouȝ him ner.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)17/6 : Prede werreþ wyþ god.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.986 : With Creon…He faught.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.57 : Þe kyng of Danmark sent to him…& praied him for his nauy to help him with summ.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)4265 : Armyd in steel he kam out…Syngulerly with hym to han ado.
- a1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)28/36 : With Edward think þai for to fight.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)77/28 : Thi mercy, Lord, made thy sone sprede hise armes vpon þe cros; þere pleyede deeþ with liif and liif wiþ deeþ.
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)2581 : We vertuse wyl not wyth hym stryue.
- c1460 Ipom.(3) (Lngl 257)346/32 : Euery knight desired to haue a doo with the blak knight.
- c1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)81/21 : A worthi knyght wold be glad whan he myght prove his knyghthode with a noþer worthy knyght as he is.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)368/373 : To hurle wyth tho harlotys me is ful lef.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)114 : They fought whythe viij grete carykys of Jene and whythe L othyr shyppys, and they toke hem…and drownyde a grette hulke of the contre of Flaundrys.
- a1500(?a1400) Torrent (Chet 8009)2399 : All the world he hath justid with That come to that dede.
- a1500(?a1410) Lydg.CB (Lnsd 699)175 : Now that I stond free…I cast nat…with no lymetwigges any more to stryve.
b
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)3/23 : Ne flit þu wið anwillne man.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)31/311 : Com akempe of helle on englene heowe & feng on to motin þus wið his meiden.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3689 : Sche ðor haueð wið moyses fliten.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2545 : Anoþer werkman…gan flite wiþ þat felþe þat formest hadde spoke.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)4 Kings 25.6 : Þanne þei ladden þe taken kyng to þe king of babiloyne in reblatha, þe whiche spac with hym dome.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.12.41 : Men of Nynyue shal ryse in dome with [L cum] this generacioun, and shulen condempne it.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)3.552 : Bot ofte time it hath betidd That with miselven I have chidd.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.1496 : Yet hadde I neuere with noon of hem debat.
- (1432) Paston (Gairdner)2.36 : The King is growen in yeers…the whiche…shul causen him more and more to grucche with chastising, and to lothe it.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)4383 : All way with hym þei flott and chyde.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)28/1 : He come in-to þe cowrte & pleyd with þe men of courte.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)28 : Wel j see that to argue with yow j mihte not endure.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)418 : I…arguyde wyth Mercy, Gode gyff hym schame!
c
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)35/34 : Wið yfel heo gewarnien.
- a1150(c1125) Vsp.D.Hom.Fest.Virg.(Vsp D.14)16/22 : Æigðer oðre bewereð wið unwinen gewinne.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)11887 : Birrþ þe wæpnedd beon…To shildenn þe wiþþ all hiss laþ.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)13 : Ic eou wulle werien wið elene herm.
- a1225(?c1175) PMor.(Lamb 487)220 : Wurst he deð his gode frond þenne his fulle fond; God scilde alle godes frond a wih [Eg(1): wihd] swilche freonde.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)24/3 : Ti wil iwurðe hit…þet ich…mahe stonden wið him.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)116/9 : Of mon þe spekeð wið ow þulliche talen hereð hu ȝe schulen witen ow wið þes deofles wiltes þet he ow ne bichearre.
- ?c1250 PMor.(Eg 613(1))230 : Ic wulle telle of helle pine and warnie ow wið herme.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)1137 : Ne scal þe nan man scilden wið scondlice deaðe.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)15379 : Haue þis gold…þat wið chele þe maȝen werien.
- c1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)756 : His engin whan þu hit wite, þe betere wiþ oþere þu miȝt þe wite.
- a1350 In may hit murgeþ (Hrl 2253)25 : Wymmon, war þe wiþ þe swyke.
- (1357) Gaytr.LFCatech.(Yk-Borth R.I.11)84/425 : That wisses us to be war with wathes of the world.
- c1390 Castle Love(1) (Vrn)701 : Neuer schal fo him stonde wiþ.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)29271 : He mai him wit þis cursing were.
- a1425(?a1400) Cloud (Hrl 674)69/17 : Bewar wiþ errour.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)200/17 : Than the kynge yode up to the creste of the cragge, and than he comforted hymself with the colde wynde.
d
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)24/32 : Þa yrsode he wið heom.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)10313 : Teȝȝ haffdenn niþ Wiþþ himm & wiþþ hiss lare.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)108/757 : Þe king…gromede wið ham.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)62 : Ich wot þat þu art un milde Wiþ hom þat nemuȝe from se schilde.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)111 : Þe faucun was wroþ wit his bridde.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)168 : Wið al mankin he haueð nið & win.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3982 : Quað ðe angel, ‘ðin weige is me loð; Ðor-fore am ic wið ðe ðus loð.’
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1999 : Wiþ me sche is wroþ.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2057 : Ther saw I how woful Calistopee, Whan that Diane agreued was with here, Was turned from a womman til a bere.
- c1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)518 : Why schulde I wrath wyth hem?
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)1660 : Al for-wondered watz þe wyȝe, & wroth with hym-seluen.
- c1400 Brut-1333 (Rwl B.171)18/14-15 : Corneil his eldest douȝter…was so annoyed wiþ him and wiþ his peple.
- a1425(?c1384) Wycl.Church (Bod 788)359 : Grutche we not þat many men þenken ful hevy wiþ þis sentence.
- (1440) Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)847 : Of bounteuousnesse þat hous was ful sedy But þe deuele…Had grete envye with swech maner sedys.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)87/32 : Foure munkys…hadden enuye wyth fflorence, þat he was so holy holdyn.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)617/21 : Than was kynge Arthure wrothe wyth kynge Marke.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)211 : My body wyth my soull ys euer querulose.
e
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)49/10 : Wid [L Ad] earane sare, nim þisse wirt seaw & wyrm hit, drupe hyt, wunderlicen ȝemete ðæra earena sar afliȝþ.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)57/4 : Wið innoðes sar ȝenim þa wirte þe man artemesiam & oðrum naman mugwyrt nenneð.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)223/3 : Wið [L Adversus] hundes slite, nim þisse wirte leaf mid sealte ȝecnucode, leȝe to þan wunda; hit hæleð wunderlice.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.MQuad.(Hrl 6258B)253/15 : Wid eaȝena dimnysse, wudugate ȝeallan & litel wines meng tosomne, smyra mid þriwa, þanne beoð hi ȝehæled.
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)5/12 : Þus man sceal wyrcen þa sealfe wið oman, and þus he sceal beon ȝehaled.
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)13/16 : Ad cecitatem oculorum: Þis scal wyð þare eaȝene tyddernesse heallswa Hypcras þe læce hyt cydde.
f
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)5494 : Þiss ȝife ȝifeþþ Haliȝ Gast Þa menn þatt wel himm cwemenn…Forr þatt teȝȝ unnderrstanndenn wel Hu wicke itt iss onn eorþe Wiþþ þatt itt iss inn heoffness ærd Biforenn Godess sihhþe.
1c.
(a) With expressions of concealing: from (sb.);
(b) with expressions of separating, delivering, refraining: from (sb. or sth.); clensen ~, to rid (a church) of (mice); isteren ~, restrain (oneself) from (sin), refrain from; parten ~, part from (sb.); also, part with (sth.), give up;
(c) dispensen ~, eccl. to grant release from (a law, rules), grant dispensation from; dispensacioun ~.
Associated quotations
a
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)2473-4 : Hire wambe siþþenn toc To waxenn alls itt birrde, & ȝhot forrhall wiþþ alle menn, Wiþþ sibbe & wiþþ unnsibbe.
- a1250(?c1150) Prov.Alf.(Mdst A.13)95/220 : For-helet wiþ [Trin-C: For-hele hit wid] þe areȝe.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)2176 : Þu þi þanc al for-hele wih þine hired-monnen.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1870 : Godes ðat rachel hadde stolen, And ay til ðan wið him for-holen, And oðre ydeles brogt fro sichem.
b
- a1225(OE) Lamb.Hom.Pentec.(Lamb 487)95 : Þe larðeu…scal hine seolfne wið sunnan isteoran and seoððan his heorde.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)610 : Me is lof to cristes huse; To clansi hit wiþ fule muse.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)17022 : Kynd na saul suffers ar to part wit man o-liue.
- a1425 NHom.(3) Leg.Suppl.Hrl.(Hrl 4196)38/290 : He dredes his gude sal fro him fall So þat he dar noght part with all.
- a1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)145/787 : Take…ground-yuy & grynd it riȝt smal & droppe, while it is on straynynge…a litel clene water þer-to, for ellus wol it not parti wel with þe Ius.
- c1475 My dere sone wher (RwlPoet 143)128 : Now to speke of the hare…whan she is female and kyndeles ben hure within, Thre degrens [read: degres] ho hom has er ho with [Lamb: fro] hem may twyn.
- 1486 ?Berners Bk.St.Albans (Blades 1881)leaf e iij/b : In iij degrees he hem berith or he with hem twyn.
- a1475 Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)4408 : He shal deie and hens fare And whider to wende he not ne whare…And þerfore he shulde, or he went, Parte wiþ suche as God him sent.
c
- c1400 Wycl.DSins (Bod 647)162 : Þo fourt maner of lecchorye is bytwene kyn…And dispensacioun wiþ þis lawe wynnes myche money.
- (a1402) Trev.DCur.(Hrl 1900)76/4 : Þat lawe þat þe pope dispenseþ wiþ letteþ hym nouȝt, &…he synneþ dedliche.
- ?c1430(?1382) Wycl.Pet.Parl.(Corp-C 296)511 : Þe pope may dispence wiþ þe reule of ech privat secte…but he may not dispense wiþ Cristis reule ȝoven to apostlis.
- ?c1450(?a1400) Wycl.Clergy HP (Lamb 551)366 : Siþ þat moyses lawe is moralle in þis poynte þat longeþ to þe perfeccyon of presthode, criste myȝte not distroy þes lawis neiþer dispens wiþ hem.
2.
(a) In physical proximity to (sb. or sth., an animal, etc.), near, close to, beside, alongside; even ~, abreast of (sb.), even with; forkerven ~ the ground, to cut (a tree) down to the ground, cut off at or near ground level; sheren ~ the shulderes, strike off the head of (sb.) at the shoulders;
(b) upon (the earth, sea bottom), on; ben direct ~, of the moon: to shine directly upon (sth.); lighten ~, of God’s help: descend upon (sb.), alight upon; stiken (picchen togeder) ~, impale (sb.) against or upon (a wall, the ground); roughen ~, cough against or on (one’s shoulder);
(c) physically within (a part of the body), inside of; ben ~, of qualities, characteristics, virtues, etc.: to be in or inherent in (sb. or sth.);
(d) with verbs of motion: into the presence of (sb., God), to;
(e) in phrases with noun or pron. in the gen. plus ward: ~ here (thas shrafes, thas sterres) ward, toward or in the direction of them (the cave or star);
(f) in the same direction as (sb. or sth.); ~ the flod (stremes, the wind), in the same direction as the tide (current, wind) is moving; ben ~, of the current or tide: to be moving in the same direction as (sb.), be with (sb.); haven the wind ~, have the wind with (oneself) or going (one’s) way;
(g) naut. ?in the direction of (a place); ?by way of (a place).
Associated quotations
a
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)28/31 : Ferde eall samod of þære byrig to anre wic wið þære ea Jordanem.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)149/7 : Se mann þe…gelefð on þone Hælend, þonne sitt he wið þone weig.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)91/12 : Þeos wyrt þe man gallicrus & oþrum naman attorlaþe nemnað, he wexeþ on fastum stowum & wid [L circa] weiȝeas.
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)24/3 : Heo þa swa dyden forcurfon ðæt treow wið ðone grund.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)50/30 : Þet scherpe sweord scher hire wið [Roy: bi] þe schildren & te bodi beah to þer eorðe.
- c1300 SLeg.Kath.(Hrl 2277)274 : He let nyme Porfirie anon & his felawes echone & let smyte of here heuedes wiþ þe toun as Mahounes fone.
- a1450(a1400) Athelston (Cai 175/96)17 : By a forest gan þey mete Wiþ a cros.
- a1475 Bk.Courtesy (Sln 1986)284 : Yf þat he þy maystur be, Go not be-fore, for curtase…Ne euen hym with.
- a1500 Let.Alex.(Wor F.172)538 : Tho voices…whiche of the aunswers aforsaide my knyghtes only wiþ me herden, I besought hem…with silence my counsails thei huyden and coveren.
b
- 1122 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1122 : Scip men…saedon þæt hi sægon on norð east fir micel & brad wið þone eorðe.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)147 : Ðis wirm…walke wið ðe erðe.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)401 : Ðis fis wuneð wið ðe se grund.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)1935 : Wiþ his scholder he gan roue And bad gode for Godes loue.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)4878 : Þe help of our Driȝt Wiþ Wawain…gan aliȝt.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 18.11 : Saul heeld a spere & caste it, wenenge þat he myȝte picchen togedere dauyd wiþ þe wal.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Kings 18.11 : If þou seeȝe whi stikedest þou not hym wiþ þe erþe.
- (c1392) ?Westwyk EPlanets (Peterh 75)42/17 : Whan the mone is direct wt caput or cauda, she hath no latitude.
c
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)2724 : He was curteys, hende and gent…Curteyslich and fair he spac, Wiþ him was non iuel lac.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Job 19.4 : If I am vnknowinge, with me [L mecum] it shal ben myn vnkunnynge.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)148/8 : He [esophagus] is hool & conteyned wiþ þe stomak.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)6.158 : Vnder presse Constreyne hit [cheese]…and salt aboute hit folde…On fleykes logge hem…So wol their fatnesse and teneritude With hem be stille.
- c1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)121/3601 : Right ny myn hert with [F Dedens] my bosom lo I haue y-putt a cosse of gret plesere.
- (?c1475) Stonor ()2.32 : Y se with him is no feithe.
- a1500 Tundale (Adv 19.3.1)31 : Wyth hym was no charyte.
- a1500(?a1425) Chester Pl.Antichr.(Pen 399)496/135 : Nowe sethe this worthy lorde ys dede and his grace ys withe us lede, to take hys bodye it ys my rede and burye it in a grave.
d
- a1225 Seinte marie clane (Roy 5.F.7)4 : Sainte marie uirgine…help þin godric onfang, bring heȝilich wið þe in godes riche.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2893 : Ðo fleg ðis folc wið moysen.
- a1450(?c1400) Wycl.LFCatech.PN (Add 17013)338 : Mannes soule…is…hyȝed wiþ god.
e
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1106 : Sumne æfen wæs ge sæwen swilce se beam ongean weardes wið þes steorran ward fyrcliende wære.
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)16/24 : Þa wearð þe earm to þam swiðe aþened wið heore weard.
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)20/8 : Ðeo hand ðe he þa ȝyrdæn mid heold wearð aðened wið þæs scræfes weard.
f
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.719 : Sche dryveth Under a Castel with the flod.
- a1450(1408) Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)188/22-3 : Ȝif þou hast þe wynd with þee and aȝenst hym, ȝif þe flood is with þe and aȝenst him…in alle þese thinges þou art at þe bettre and thyn enemy at þe werse.
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)2462 : His shyppes let dyght, Kynge Rycharde Forth towarde Acrys he wolde…Saylynge forwarde with the wynde.
- ?c1475 Direct.Sailing in Hak.Soc.79 (Lnsd 285)20 : Than your cours is north northest for to go with barseis stremys.
- a1475 Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)1284 : Mighte any man saile night and day Þat hadde þe winde with him ay?
g
- ?c1475 Direct.Sailing in Hak.Soc.79 (Lnsd 285)13 : Fro Seint Margret steyers and ye will go with Dengenes, your best way is south south west…and fro Dengenes to Hildirnes your cours is Est and West.
- ?c1475 Direct.Sailing in Hak.Soc.79 (Lnsd 285)18 : And ye come on ebbe and sith, go est and north est with Portis hede, but yif ye have a quarter tide at the flat holme, ye may goo est north est or est and by south and go ovir Langborde with Ketils wode.
3a.
(a) In phrases expressing association in space or location, accompaniment, connection, etc.: in the company of (sb., God, etc.), together with (sb. or sth.); among (persons, animals), in the midst of; also, present with (sb.), in the presence of; with verbs of motion, sending, etc.: accompanied by (sb. or sth.); also in fig. contexts; comen ~ him to in, to come to visit him at (his) lodgings; haven dwellinge ~ the world, live in the world, live by the world’s values; holden fot ~, keep pace with (sb.), keep up with; medlen ech ~ other, refl. stick together, stay with one another;
(b) at the dwelling of (sb.), in the house of; in the household of (sb.), in service to, in the retinue of; also, in attendance upon (a patient, an invalid), at the bedside of;
(c) in pious declarations and phrases of asseveration, benediction, cursing, etc.: ben ~, of God, Jesus, etc.: to be with (sb.), attend; of a blessing: be upon (sb.); the lord ~ the, the lord be with thee;
(d) with (sb., a creature) for safekeeping, in the keeping of, in the custody or charge of, in the care of, in the possession of [sometimes difficult to distinguish from (a)]; in kepinge ~, in the personal possession of (sb.).
Associated quotations
a
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)410 : Rihhtwise menn…shulenn habbenn heore læn Forr heore rihhtwisnesse, A butenn ende blisse inoh Wiþþ alle Godess enngless.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)4023 : He…shollde ben Wiþþ Godd inn heoffness blisse.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)33 : Ne mei nan mon…blissien him mid þisse wordle and ec wunian a wið crist on heofene.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)5/31 : Eleusius…hefde iunne feolahschipe to affrican & wes iwunet ofte to cumen wið him to his in.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)28/194 : Þes sondesmon…brohte wið him fifti scolmeistres.
- a1275 *Body & S.(4) (Trin-C B.14.39)41 : Wrec gost, þu uend awai wit þine longe tale.
- a1275 *Body & S.(4) (Trin-C B.14.39)110 : Awai, bi kin to funden, þit [read: wit] þine wuele kenke.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)8527 : Forð ferde Mærlin, and þa cnihtes wið him.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)640 : He ros…to heuene vuenest [read: vuemest], ðer wuneð wið fader & holi gast.
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)3/20 : Twelf feren he hadde Þat [he] alle wiþ him ladde.
- c1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)30 : Glad & bliþe hi weren alle þat weren wiþ hem in þe halle.
- a1325 SLeg.Cross (Corp-C 145)390/12 : A partie of þe swete crois þat seint Eline þuder broȝte He tok wiþ him.
- a1325 Stond wel moder (Roy 12.E.1)52 : Sune, y wyle wi’the funden.
- c1330 Orfeo (Auch)9/84 : Þe tvo maidens hir biside No durst wiþ hir no leng abide.
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)140.5 : Y ne shal nouȝt commune wyþ her chosen.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2072 : Mi ladi lengeþ him wiþ.
- (c1375) Chaucer CT.Mk.(Manly-Rickert)B.3406 : He was out cast of mannes compaignye; With asses was his habitacioun And eet hey as a beest in weet and drye.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.9.11 : Whi etith ȝoure maister with puplicanys and synful men?
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)Apoc.3.21 : I shal ȝiue to him that shal ouercome for to sitte with me in my troone.
- c1400(1375) Canticum Creat.(Trin-O 57)196 : Þerfore com out and go wiþ me…to þat place y lede þe.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)86 : Þen þay cayred and com þat þe cost waked, Broȝten bachlerez hem wyth þat þay by bonkez metten.
- a1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)11/23 : Þe nobill duc of Braband With him went into þat land.
- (1431) Paston2.4 : And that ye seelle the same deede endented, whiche we send yow with thees oure lettres.
- (c1438) MKempe B (Add 61823)239/11 : Sithyn þei wentyn alle in fer to-gedyr: Þe sayd creatur cam sone behyndyn; sche was to agyd & to weyke to holdyn foot wyth hem.
- (1440-41) Visit.Alnwick125b : Ye suffre none of thaym…to go…owte the cloystere, but if ther be an other nunne approvede in religyone assigned to go wythe hire.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)326 : Þe xiij gouernauns is…þat þe preest punysche hem bi…suspending hem from al comunyng wiþ cristen peple in etyng, drynking, biyng, silling, scleping, ligging, walking, and ech oþer entirmetyng.
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)500 : Whoso wyl wyth þe Werld haue hys dwellynge…He muste nedys…be couetowse.
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)2102 : I shal never fro the go, But be thyn owne sworen brother! We wil medle us ech with other.
- c1450(c1430) Brut-1430 (Glb E.8)427/1 : The Quene was crounyd in the Abbey of Westeminster, with alle the grete and worthi Bisshoppis of this londe.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)681/31 : He had with hym La Beall Isode, magre kynge Marke.
- a1475 Limn.Bks.(Brog 2.1)84 : To make rede water: take brasylle that flotyn, and put hit into an erthyne potte, with ly made of lyme.
- c1425 Wycl.Antichr.(2) (Dub 245)p.cxvi : He sitteþ in spies wiþ riche men þat he slee an innocent man.
- a1500(?a1325) Otuel & R (Fil)85 : Roulond…And alle tho that be wyȝt the ȝut y hope to spylle.
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)61/9 : Then sate scho done all othyr wyth.
- a1500(a1450) Gener.(2) (Trin-C O.5.2)2789 : With Generides was Natanell Beryng a spere of tymber good and sure.
b
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)65/1 : Ic wunode þære wið þone cyng Persiscre þeode.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)3160 : Swa bilæf ȝho þa wiþþ himm Inn Nazaræþess chesstre.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Roy 17.A.27)31/262 : Ȝef ow is wilre forto wunien wið me, ȝe schulen beon mine readmen.
- c1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)3 : He wonede at Ernleie wid þan gode cniþte.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)465 : Sella wuneð oc lamech wið; Ghe bar tubal, a sellic smið.
- c1330(c1250) Floris (Auch)817 : He…haþ idubbed him to kniȝt, & bad he scholde wiȝ him be.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.65 : This ilke worthy knyght hadde been also Som tyme with the lord of Palatye.
- a1400 Pep.Gosp.(Pep 2498)3/33 : Siþen bileft Marie wiþ Elizabeth aboute þre moneþes.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)8.92 : Suffreth þe vnwise with ȝow for to libbe.
- (1423) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 (Lamb 69)267 : I be whethe to Cristine my chambrer, if she be with me in to my last ende, x marks.
- ?a1425 Const.Masonry(1) (Roy 17.A.1)p.265 : That whose wol conne thys craft and com to astate, He most loue wel…hys mayster…that he ys wythe.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)165b/b : Ȝif a surgen doute þat his medicine drie to sone, as it falleþ when þat a surgene maie not continuellye be with þe pacient, þen he schal sprede it on a lefe and þen it wille be longer or it drye.
- (c1430) Let.Christ Ch.in Camd.n.s.197 : He hath levyr that he be wuth yow and serve God in that place…thanne in ony place in Ingland.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)4297 : How shuld I myrier be? nat wot I how Than with yow for to be continuel.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)171/12 : When sho had ligen þus many day sho dyed, & no body with hur.
- (1472) Paston1.585 : Thankyng yow…of your gret cost, whyche ye dyd on me at my last being wyth yow at London.
- c1450(c1400) Emare (Clg A.2)472 : The kynge be-lafte wyth þe qwene; Moch loue was hem be-twene.
c
- a1275 Nu þis fules (Trin-C B.14.39)10 : Marie…vre louer be uit þe.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Judg.6.12 : Þe angel of þe lord apperede to hym & seiþ ‘þe lord wiþ þee, most strong of men.’
- c1400 Bible SNT(1) (Selw 108 L.1)Eph.6.24 : Þe grace of God be wiþ alle hem þat lofeþ oure Lord Iesu Crist.
- c1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)33/12 : Gret hure wiþ Gabriel and sei, ‘Heil, ful of grace! God is wiþ þe.’
- a1425(?a1350) Nicod.(1) (Glb E.9)1020 : Goddes bliscing be all his puple with.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)10/3 : Godd be with þe, for Godd es with vs.
- a1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)3/3 : To his dere sistir in God…gretynge in hym…He be wiþ þee euere & wiþ alle þat…haue certeyne hope in hym.
- ?a1450 MLChrist (Add 39996)5150 : I am wiþ ȝow now & ay.
- c1460 Oseney Reg.39/15 : We denunce the perell of dampnacion to be wyȝthe them.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)104/226 : Therfore I sey, god is with the.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)158/575 : My blyssyng, syrs, be now with you.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)143/31 : Ihesu shal be wiþ us.
d
- a1275 *St.Marg.(2) (Trin-C B.14.39)15 : Þo þat child ibore was…þe moder…sende hit into asye wid messagers…to a norice þat hire wiste.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1858 : His bag…wiþ þe best he lafte.
- a1400(c1250) Floris (Eg 2862)673 : Þow schalt haue redy with the xx marke beside þy knee.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)4403 : His mantel es bi-left wit me.
- (1426) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 (Lamb 69)340 : I bequethe to litel Jonet, wyth my wyf, x marc to hire mariage, yf she be maryed be the avyse and sent of my wyf or of myn executours.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)77/18 : Sche had wyth hir an asse þe whech bar a chyst & an ymage þerin mad aftyr our Lord.
- (1447) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 11116 : Item, a Chalyse, gylt only wt yn forth, of the gyfft of Henry Clerk & Agnes his wyffe, beying in kepyng wt the saide Agnes.
- a1450 SLeg.Suppl.Bod.(Bod 779)420/80 : Hem he ȝaf þe two, & kepte wit him þe þridde.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)122/29 : Þai areste hym & a bruder & a sister þat he had…&…þai cuthe not agaynsay þer gilde, for…was fon with þaim…þe syluer vessell.
- (1472) Stonor1.124 : And for the certente what my cosen shall have with her…suer yt is that of her ffader’s enheritaunce she hath in possession c marks of lande.
3b.
(a) With expressions of meeting, encounter, etc.: with (sb. or sth.); fallen ~, to come upon (a place) in due course; meten ~ [see also meten v.(4) 1.(b), 2.(a), 2.(d), et passim];
(b) with expressions of verbal or mental communication: with (sb., oneself), to; thinken ~, to think to (oneself);
(c) with expressions of dancing, playing, etc.: with (sb. or sth.); pleien ~, to play with (sb. or sth.); also, toy with (sb.); torment (sb.) [see also pleien v.(1) 1a.(e), 1a.(f)];
(d) with expressions of fastening, physical attachment, etc.: with (sth.), to;
(e) in phrases implying mixture, combination, blending, etc.: mixed together with (sth.), in combination with, blended with; also, with verbs or ppls. of mixing, entangling, etc.: with (sth.); ben medled ~, to be mixed with (sth.); of flesh: be interspersed with (muscles, ligaments); of a muscle: be entangled or intertwined with (a ligament);
(f) with verbs of marrying: with (sb.), to; also in fig. context;
(g) with verbs and verbal expressions of sexual relations, copulation, etc.: with (sb.);
(h) with expressions of dealing, behaving: with (sb. or sth., a creature), toward; ben ~, to act toward (sb.); delen (don, haven ado, haven to don, usen, etc.) ~; also in elliptical constr. with obj. of the prep. unexpressed: frendli (perilous) to delen ~, friendly (dangerous) to deal with;
(i) with expressions of sharing: with (sb., God); among (persons); parten ~, to share (sth.) with (sb., God); give a share (of sth.) to (sb.) [see also parten v. 6.(c)];
(j) with expressions of interchanging or exchanging: with (sb. or sth.).
Associated quotations
a
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)30/17 : He ðe hæfde mot wið his men.
- a1275 Judas (Trin-C B.14.39)7 : Imette wid is soster, þe swikele wimon.
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)11/155 : Hy metten wiþ almair king.
- c1330 Orfeo (Auch)43/510 : Wiþ his steward he gan mete.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)621 : What man so ich mete wiþ…me þinkes everich þrowe þat barn is þat oþer.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Par.12.17 : Dauiþ wente out to meete with hem.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)820 : After þe seruise of þe dubbyng, He gooþ to mete wiþ þe kyng.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)16.30 : We…mette with a mayster, a man ylike a frere.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)2907 : It is a full noble thing Whanne thyne eyen haue metyng With that relike precious.
- c1425 Wycl.Concord.in Spec.43 (Roy 17.B.1)272 : Ȝhe, loke in alle suche synonemus, þouȝ þer be þre or mo of hem, til þou fynde þe text wiþ which þe liste mete.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)130/9 : Me ouyr-thynkyth þat I met wyth þe.
- c1460 Ipom.(3) (Lngl 257)350/42 : He met with Egeon.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)114 : The duke saylyd home ayenne and mette whythe kyng at Caleys.
- ?c1475 Direct.Sailing in Hak.Soc.79 (Lnsd 285)16 : Ye shall fall with eleron.
- a1500(?a1400) KEdw.& S.(Cmb Ff.5.48)19 : With a scheperde con he mete.
- a1500(?c1450) Florence (Cmb Ff.2.38)628 : Syr Emere wyth hym mett.
b
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1103 : Ðises geares eac com se eorl Rotbert of Normandig to sprecene wið þone cyng her on lande.
- ?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1140 : Þe kinges brother Stephnes spac wid Rodbert.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)30/18 : He spæc þa wið ænne mon.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)3772 : Þatt Godess enngell comm o nihht…To spekenn wiþþ þa wakemenn.
- a1275 *St.Marg.(2) (Trin-C B.14.39)266 : Þi louerd hat speke wid þe.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)5135 : Bruttes…speken Seuarium wið.
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)15/254 : For heo ne miȝte at borde Wiþ him speke no worde.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2547 : Quuað ðis ging wið hem stille in red, ‘Ðis ebris waxen michil sped.’
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)265 : He wilnes wiȝtli wiþ ȝou to speke.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Judith 10.13 : For þis cause I thoȝte with my self seiynge I shal gon to…olofernes.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ecclus.37.12 : With an vnreligious man trete of holinesse.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Luke 24.15 : Thei talkiden and souȝten with hem silf.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.31 : Shortly whan the sonne was to reste So hadde I spoken with hem euerichon That I was of hir felaweshipe anon.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)748 : I am bot erþe ful evel and usle so blake, For to mele wyth such a Mayster as myȝtez hatz alle.
- (1415) Doc.Conspir.Hen.V in D.K.R.43587 : I…spake wethe ye Erle of ye Marche.
- c1440(a1400) Eglam.(Thrn)24 : For þe erle hym had in walde Of dedis of armes was he balde: Wyth no man sayde he naye.
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)2429 : Cum and speke wyth þi best frende.
- (a1470) Stonor1.110 : Y have comynet with my wyfe, and sche sayes, [etc.].
- (1472) Stonor1.127 : He shal be demened in brekynge with my seid Mastres and that he shall not breke to much at oones to her…unto the tyme that he be…assured…of her disposicion.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)671 : Þan commyn with þe cooke and looke what he wille say.
- 1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)9/12 : But wayte ye make not many questions with her.
- a1500 St.Alex.(5) (Tit A.26)73/383 : Wyghe þe speke nowe I ne maye.
c
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)110/10 : Þe deoflen schulen pleien wið him mid hare scharpe eawles.
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)21/345 : Wiþ him ȝe wolden pleie.
- a1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)401/138 : An hard puf him was blowe aȝen to teche him pleie wiþ fure.
- a1350 Gode sire pray (Rwl D.913)p.175 : Come ant daunce wyt me in irlaunde.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)678 : Liked him his layk wiþ þe ladi to pleie.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3660 : Absolon…was at Oseneye, With compaignye hym to disporte and pleye.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Sq.(Manly-Rickert)F.277 : On the daunce he gooth with Canacee.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1223/19 : Þe wolf…whanne he hath non honger…loueþ wel to play wiþ a childe…he sleeþ him afterward and eteþ him atte laste.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)12276 : Iesus went him for to plai Wit childir on an halidai.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)1.840 : As hire [Fortune] list, she pleyeth with free and bonde.
- c1450(a1375) Octav.(2) (Clg A.2)211 : Pley þe wyth þat ball.
d
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)146/4 : Þe firste of þe boonys is bounde wiþ a boon of þe heed.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)201/16-17 : Þei ben maad fast wiþ þe botme of þe stomac & wiþ þe gutt þat is clepid duodeno, & wiþ þe smal gutt.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)258/10 : Þe scharpe eendis þat ben aboue ben ioynynge wiþ þe boones of þe iȝen.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)9a/a : Þai bynde…þe iuncture wt þe pannicle to gider.
- ?a1425 Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)76/19 : Laste of alle, brawnes…and ligamentes descenden…fro þe haunches…& bynden þe grete thie and þe legge wiþ þe same haunches.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)131a/a : Þe canel bone maie not be dislocate, but it maie be broken oþer disseuerde fro þe place þat he is continued wiþ oþer ioyned to.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)103/34 : Þou perceyuedist þat þe roote of þe tre was ioyned wiþ þe erþe.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)42b/b : In men sche [bladder] is long & conteyned wiþ þe ȝerde, passinge þoruȝ þe peritonium; In wymmen sche is schort and contynued with þe vulua.
e
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)213/8 : Ȝenim þisse wirte…on ele ȝesodone & wiþ wex ȝemencged.
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)29/26 : Þanne scealt þu hym don eced wyd huniȝe ȝemengded.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)128/901 : Ter sprong ut, mid te dunt, milc imenget wið blod.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)364 : In swinc ðu salt tilen ði mete, Ðin bred wið swotes teres eten.
- 1381 Dc.257 Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)63.6/3 : Temper it wyþ ale & ley it wyþ þe capoun.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)281/29 : Þere is þre maner of fleische: Sum is medled wiþ musculus, synewis, and strengis and hatte brawne.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)831/28 : Quiksiluer haþ þis proprete, þat it cruddeþ nouȝt by itsilf kyndeliche wiþoute brymstone, but wiþ brymstone, as wiþ substaunce of leede, it is congeled and yfastned togedres.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)29/8 : Þe senewe…is medlid wiþ a ligament.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.96 : Bi dowynge of þe Chirche and necligence of prelatis is mannis lawe medlid wiþ Goddis lawe.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)183b/b : Seþ þe wexe & þe rosine wiþ þe iuses to þat þe iuys be consumed.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)388/15-16 : Braye ham with a capownes wenge and with a litel of gyngeuere and with sugre inow.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.829 : Take peres right mature And with hool salt hem trede…flesshe & all.
- (1445) ?Bokenham Claudian CS (Add 11814)273/179 : With sobirnes thi sporteful wordis arn meyncte.
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)127/16 : Ȝif þis herbe be brent and þe askys…medled wyȝt…olye…it schal restore þe heer aȝen.
- a1475 Limn.Bks.(Brog 2.1)75 : Grynd heme welle togedyre with wyne or with venegre.
- a1500(?c1440) Lydg.HGS (Lnsd 699)177 : The grees of gandris is good in medicyne With sundry gummes tempred.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)32b/22 : Make a nomentacion water in whiche haue been sodon Roses withe a litill salt.
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- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)1943 : Ȝho wass Weddedd…Wiþþ an weppmann off hire kinn.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)10.154 : Þei mariede hem wiþ curside men of caymes kyn.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)2.31 : Mi fader þe grete god is…And hath ȝoue me mercy to marye with my-self.
- a1425(?c1384) Wycl.Church (Bod 788)364 : Men ben weddid wiþ þer habitis and þer custumes and þer singular maners as ȝif þei weren Cristis comaundementis.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)18/14 : He wald hafe maried me richely with a grete prince doghter.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)317/23 : Þai marid hur with a yong man.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)85/33 : He may noȝt durynge hure lyf be copled or maryed with hure.
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- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)12932 : He wolde mon-radene habben wið þan maidene.
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)997 : Of bodi was he mayden clene, Neuere yete in game, ne in grene, Þit [read: Wit] hire ne wolde leyke ne lye, No more þan it were a strie.
- c1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)2614 : Tristrem wiþ ysonde lay.
- c1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.182 : By þe lecchours ben bitokned alle þat han to don wiþ wymmen out of spouse oiþer in oþere manere synne.
- (c1375) Chaucer CT.Mk.(Manly-Rickert)B.3484 : It was to wyues lecherie and shame In oother cas if that men with hem pleyde.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))2 Mac.6.4 : The temple was ful…of men doynge lechery with horis.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)6.37 : Þey fasteþ and eteþ nouȝt, noþer deleþ wiþ [L concumbant] hir wifes.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)28481 : Mi sister haue i sinned with.
- a1425(c1300) NHom.(1) Abp.& N.(Ashm 42)p.80 : Allgate buse me with hir playe.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)3037 : And yitt hadde trespasse neuer adoo With Resoun ne neuer ley hir bye.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)11/35 : Sche had neuyr desyr to komown fleschly wyth hyre husbonde.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)316 : Dauyd dide aduouterie wiþ bersabee.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)627 : He delt with hyr or yt was day, And gatt A son that sythyn moab hyght.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)179/29 : He lay by hur & had at do with hur.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)12/14 : Adam mad his avow þat he schuld neuir in al his lif comoun with Eue.
- (c1472) Paston1.635 : Gregory…as he swhereys, had not a do wyth here wyth-in my modyres place.
- c1450 In a valey (Lamb 853)92 : Spouse, why will thow nowght with me dele?
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)313 : Dame…it is long sith I lovid you; go we nowe þidir and lat me play with the.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)91/192 : I had neuer with the to do…whos is that chyld?
- a1500 Methodius(3) (Stw 953)88 : Adam wyth hys wyfe gan dele.
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- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)6175 : Aȝȝ þe birrþ þe sellfenn rihht…Towarrd illc an lifisshe mann, Þatt ohht wiþþ þe shall dælenn.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)660 : Wið oðre briddes ge doð as moder.
- ?a1300 Loue is sofft (Dgb 86)7 : Loue is douti in þe world wiþ for to dele.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3212 : Ðor he stunden for to sen Quilc pharaon wið hem sal ben.
- a1350 Horn (Hrl 2253)44/790 : Kyng, wiþ him þou ast done þilond tac him to werie.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)99 : He…biholdes hou…þe…wif…wrouȝt wiþ it as wel as ȝif it were hire owne.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))John 4.9 : Jewis vsen not with [WB(2): vsiden not to dele with; L non…coutuntur] Samaritans.
- c1390 Hilton ML (Vrn)269 : Þise holy men…entermetede hem wiþ worldli bisynes.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.762 : Do right so with thy cherl as thow woldest that thy lord dide with thee.
- a1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)5848 : Þe eldest folk of israel wid pharao þai went to dele.
- (1415) Doc.Conspir.Hen.V in D.K.R.43587 : He shewt me a lettre from ye Erle of ye Marche, wretyn withe his awen honde…howe foul ze hade faren withe hym for ye payment for his mariage.
- (1425) Paston1.4 : I…neuere hadde to do more with þe seyd John Wortes þan is specified in þe seyd instruccion.
- a1450 Parton.(1) (UC C.188)8031 : Hyt myght elles so be-falle She chose a man of smale degree…Manly, trew, frendly wyth to dele.
- (1450) Paston2.36 : Oon of the lewdeste…badde hym ley down hys hedde, and he shuld be faire ferd wyth, and dye on a swerd.
- c1450(?a1400) Parl.3 Ages (Add 31042)264 : Fole es that with foles delys.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.7 : Romeyns ben ful perelous wiþ to dele.
- ?c1450(?a1400) Wycl.Clergy HP (Lamb 551)384 : Þis rule is wondir nedefulle to a man þat haþ a do wiþ eny men of þe phariseis condicions.
- ?c1450(?a1400) Wycl.Clergy HP (Lamb 551)394 : No man þat is a parfyte knyȝte of god…entirmete hym wiþ worldly nedis & bissynessis.
- (1451) Paston (Gairdner)2.239 : How they have do with Norwich…and Paston, I am nat yet clerly informed.
- c1470 Bible F.(Cleve-W q091.92-C468)60/22 : Than seid Pilat, ‘What will ye then that I do with Iesu Crist?’
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)36 : I will do with hem as thow wilte.
- a1475 Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)5153 : But þe pouere is right vnwise Þat wole alweie be so nise Wiþ the riche to entirmete.
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- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)2/11 : Þa he smeade hu he mihte dælen rice wyð God.
- a1250 Orison Lord (Nero A.14)201 : Hwoa so euer wule habben lot wið þe of þine blisse, he mot delen wið þe of þine pine on eorðe.
- c1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)387 : Þe ne faileþ non Gold ne seluer…Seie þu wilt parte wiþ him of þan.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Luke 12.13 : Maistir, seie to my brother that he departe with me the eritage.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)763/2 : The kyng of Bitinia clepede þe Galles to helpe him and hadde þe victorie and departede þe kyngedome with hem.
- c1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)126/17,18 : Whanne oure Lord is large of his drinke, be not we scarse nygardus þerof to parte wiþ oþere, for…and but we wolle departe wiþ oþere, we lesen þat we hauen.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)87/21 : Hire husbonde…schall departe with hire of his godes.
- a1450(a1401) Chastising GC (Bod 505)210/8 : Aȝens þe passiouns of envie it is a souereyne remedie, a man or a womman…to parte wiþ other þat han neede of his goodis…suche as god haþ sent hym.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)4706 : I ffeede folk that hongry be And parte with hem off my plente.
- a1500(a1450) Gener.(2) (Trin-C O.5.2)3418 : I shall…largely departe with the also.
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- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)15343 : Wið him warfte Brien al his iweden.
- a1425(c1300) NHom.(1) Alex.(Ashm 42)123 : He…chaungid…his riche wede Wiþ a beggar.
- a1425 Direct.Laces in Studies Robbins (Hrl 2320)99 : Þen schal A ryȝt change hys bowe wt B lyft.
3c.
In phrases: ~ child (lomb, whelp, etc.), of a female: pregnant; gret ~ child, ~ child gret (fer gon), in an advanced stage of pregnancy; ben ~ childre two, to be pregnant with twins; ben ~ a ded child, carry a dead fetus; gon ~ child, of a woman or female animal: be pregnant; of soil or turf: produce plant life; gon ~ child in gomme, of a tree: ooze or exude gum.
Associated quotations
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)232 : Siþþenn warrþ Elyzabæth Off himm þurrh Godd wiþþ childe.
- a1275 Nu þis fules (Trin-C B.14.39)12 : Þu sal go wit chide.
- c1300 Evang.(Dlw 22)393 : Sco bi-gan wyt childe go.
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)457/27 : Þe Quene was with childe grete.
- a1350 St.Marina (Hrl 2253)91 : Þider com a knyht…ant louede þis may…So…þat wiþ childe wes þat womon.
- 1372 In bedlem is (Adv 18.7.21)10 : Gabriel…seyde sche was with childe.
- (c1375) Chaucer CT.Mk.(Manly-Rickert)B.3477 : If she were with childe at thilke cast, Namoore sholde he pleyen thilke game.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)562/6 : Smoke of þe snoffe of a candel greueþ females þat gone wiþ broode.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1113/32 : If scheep beþ wiþ lombe [L impregnate] and heereþ þe þonder, sche casteþ hire lombe for drede.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1162/32 : A goot…goþ wiþ kyde fyue moneþes.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1166/14 : Þe bicche goþ wiþ whelpe in hire wombe foure score dayes.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)299/27 : Wommen wiþ childe schulen not be lete blood.
- c1425 Found.St.Barth.42/18 : She hadde a cowe with calfe.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)530 : Wythe chylde: Puerpera, pregnans.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.70 : A roten swerd…go hit with childe.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)2.399 : Now cheritre to graffe…er in gumme hit go with childe [L gumminet, vr. germinet].
- a1450(a1400) Athelston (Cai 175/96)218 : My wyff goþ ryȝt gret with chylde.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)106/19 : For a woman þat is with a deed chyld.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)371/22 : Wythin a whyle she wexed grete with chylde.
- a1500 Octav.(1) (Cmb Ff.2.38)80/83 : The lady was wyth chyldren twoo.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.160 : Ethelfrides wyfe, with chylde farre gone, Violently exiled and repudiate…went to recouer his estate.
3d.
In phrases expressing the unity of persons of the Trinity: in coexistence with (God, Christ, or the Holy Spirit); also, in phrases expressing spiritual or mystical union between God and humanity, the human soul and Christ, etc.: united with (mankind); ben made at on ~, ben on (oned) ~, etc., to be (made) one with (humanity, Christ, etc.).
Associated quotations
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)13030-31 : Icc amm…an soþ Godd wiþþ Haliȝ Gast & wiþþ min Faderr baþe.
- c1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)32/4 : Þe multitudo þat Holi Writ spekeþ of hadden oon herte and oon soule wiþ Crist.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)160/9,10 : I grauntide myn oonly soothfast sone, Ihesu, þe which is oon with me and I with hym, for to…oone togyderis my dyuyne nature wiþ þe kynde of manheed.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)255/26 : His blood and his deeþ, oonyd in þe vertu of my diuyn nature with mankynde, han openyd euerlastynge liif.
- a1450(a1396) Hilton CPerf.(Paris angl.41)23 : His soule is oonyd wiþ Crist.
- a1450(a1396) Hilton CPerf.(Paris angl.41)24 : Whoso cleueþ to God, he is o spirit wiþ him.
- c1450 Ihesus þat sprong (Lamb 853)47 : God wiþ man is maade at oone.
- a1500 Orch.Syon (Mrg M 162)19/11 : He schal be oon wiþ me & I wiþ him.
3e.
(a) With expressions of accord, assent, confirmation, consent, reconciliation, sympathy, etc.: with (sb., oneself, sth., or Christ), to (sb. or sth.); ben ~, to be in agreement with (sb.); haven pes ~, be peacefully inclined toward (sb.); folwen ~, be supportive toward (sb.);
(b) construen ~, gram. of a specified word or form: to construe with (a certain case), take;
(c) with expressions of acquaintance, familiarity, or kinship: with (sb. or sth.); to (sb.);
(d) fallen ~, to belong or come in classification with (sth.).
Associated quotations
a
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.852 : Wulfred scolde gifen þet land of Sliowaforda into Medeshamstede, & he scolde gife ilca gear into þe minstre sixtiga foðra wuda & twælf foður græfan…Her wæs wið se cining Burhred & Ceolred.
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1114 : Þa Wyliscean coman & wið þone cyng griðedon.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)2/3 : Þa gefestnode he þysne unræd wyð þan werode þe he bewyste, & heo ealle to þam unræde gebugen.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)21/31 : An hwælche wise ic mihte betst sahtlin wið mine halend Criste.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)4219 : Ich ȝirnde þes kinges…& walde sæhtnen him wið.
- a1300 Moder milde flur (Corp-O 59)12 : Min hope is in þe daȝ & nicht þat þu me sauchte wid þine childe.
- c1330 7 Sages(1) (Auch)16/322 : For to haue wiȝ þe acord, Ich am iwedded to þi lord.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2657 : Þei…cunseiled hire ȝerne to acorde wiþ þe king and graunte his wille.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Heb.5.2 : The which may to gidere sorwe with hem [L condolere…iis], that vnknowen and erren.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mcp.(Manly-Rickert)H.208 : The word moot nede acorde with the dede.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)prol.85 : This bok, upon amendment To stonde at his commandement, With whom myn herte is of accord.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)849/9 : Iren haþ acord wiþ þe stoon adamas.
- a1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)4074 : Fro þis tyme forþ…Wiþ ioseph were þei neuer at pees.
- a1425(?c1384) Wycl.Church (Bod 788)345 : To assente wiþ suche falseheed bringiþ in ofte heresies.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Rom.12.18 : Haue ȝe pees with alle men.
- a1425 MChristi (Arun 286)49/287 : Whan þe inner man haveþ rest wiþ hymselfe, and þe utter man is suget to hym as þe lower to þe heyȝer, þan may þe inner man sykerly feiȝt.
- ?a1425 WBible(2) Gloss.4 Kings (Cld E.2)15.10 : He hadde myche part of the puple consentinge with him.
- ?c1430(c1400) Wycl.Obed.Prel.(Corp-C 296)38 : Seyntis…seyn þat we owen to take hede what crist seiþ, & to no man ellis but in alse myche as he acordiþ wiþ crist.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)295 : The state and condicioun of tho daies weren such that it accordid not with resoun eny man forto holde to gidere apostilhode or discipilhode and possessioun of immouable godis…thouȝ now adaies it may weel ynowȝ accorde with resoun.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)2490 : Wysdam schal make hure wiþ me saught.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)865 : Sire, latt þi wreth a-wai wende & with þi wyfe saȝtill.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)5543 : He makis a conand with his kniȝtis.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)201/29 : Ȝif þou be partenere in dede of thefte…or of ony oþer wronges, þat is for to seyne, in folowynge wyth suche doers, in helpyng, defendyng…in makyng hem þe boldere…þou art bounde to restore þe hole wrong.
- a1550(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Sln 1873)2898 : No man is sure to haue his entent With-owte ful concorde of arte with Instrument.
b
- c1414 Lin-C.Informacio (Lin-C 88)106/70 : ‘Egeo’ and ‘indigeo’ wil construe with genitif case, accusatif case, and ablatif case.
- (c1434) Drury Comparacio (CmbAdd 2830)79/119-21 : Wt what case construit þe posityf degre? Wt non case because of his degre, but because of his significacion he may be construid wt alle heme gouernyng out-take þe nominatif and þe vocatif.
- c1450 Rwl.Informacio (Rwl D.328)123/88 : For ‘dominor, -aris’ will constrew with genitife case and datife case.
- c1450 Trin-C.Treat.Syntax (Trin-C O.5.4)180/105 : My superlatyf degre is construid wyth a genityf case of a noun collectyf, as ‘I am wysyst of thys companye.’
- a1475 Peniarth Informacio(1) (Pen 356B)95/107 : These ij verbys ‘desino’ and ‘abstenio’ will constrw whit the genetyffe case.
- a1500 Add.37075 Notes Syntax (Add 37075)208/4-5 : ‘Valeo, -es’ wyll constrwe wt accusatiue case when he betokenyth sertyn pryce, and wt the genitiue and ablatiue when he betokynyth vnserteyn pryce.
- ?a1500 Corp-C.Formula (Corp-C 233)135/166 : Euery participul, gerundif, and suppyn wyl constru wt sich case as þe verbe þat he comyth of.
c
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)13537 : He wass off Daviþess kinn Neh sibb wiþþ Sannte Marȝe.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)13/139 : Ne ich nes neuer þet ich wite ȝet wið him icnawen.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)98 : His muð is get wel unkuð wið pater noster & crede.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)470 : He speken godcundhede, & wikke is here dede; here dede is al vncuð wið ðat spekeð here muð.
- a1350 Ichot a burde in a (Hrl 2253)7 : Ichot a burde in a bour, ase beryl so bryht…he is coral ycud wiþ cayser ant knyht.
- c1350 How GWife(1) (Em 106)162/65 : Aquinte noȝt with il[k] a man þou metest in þe strete.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.216 : Ful wel…famulier was he With frankeleyns ouer al in his contree.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.3506 : Aqueinte thee with charite.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.225 : Þan went þis Ottobone þorghout þe cuntre & quaynted him with ilkone.
- c1400 Brut-1333 (Rwl B.171)121/25 : Walgar was wel knowen wiþ þe Kyng.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)3080 : I felte I was aqueynte With Bialacoil.
- a1450(?1418) The herrere degre (Dgb 102)19 : On a mowntayne a sete may not be hyd, Ne lordis werkis in no degre; A lordis werkis wiþ comouns is kyd, Þat he doþ most in preuete.
- c1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)533 : I…gan me aqueynte With hym.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)213 : He kide him in þe courete & quayntid him with ladis.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)171/19 : A freer-prechur, þat was his contrey-man & kend with hym, come & visett hym.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)13018 : With sobyrnesse nor attempraunce I wyl haue noon acqueyntaunce.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)72 : I shall make yow a-queynte with a gode man.
- ?a1525(?a1475) Play Sacr.(Dub 652)15 : Syr Arystorye was called hys name, Kend full fere with mani a wyght.
d
- ?a1425 Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)82/7 : So þat þe anothomye off þe thie and of þe parties of þe thie, in as miche as it falleþ oþer is nedeful to þe instrument off surgerie, is, as it were, fallinge wiþ þe anothomie off þe adiutorium.
3f.
In phrases with a superlative as obj.: in the rank of (the best, highest, largest, etc.), among; not ~ the leste of stature, not among the shortest in (her) stature; kepen ~ the best, to keep (a lady) most excellently.
Associated quotations
- c1300 SLeg.Inf.Chr.(LdMisc 108)1422 : It is euene for riȝhte soþe And i wrouȝht wel with þe beste.
- a1350 Ichot a burde in boure (Hrl 2253)38 : A betere burde neuer nes yheryed wiþ þe heste.
- c1330 7 Sages(1) (Auch)71/1522 : Þe king aros whan him list And kep þe leuedi wiȝ þe best.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.387 : Greet harm was it, as it thoughte me, That on his shyne a mormal hadde he, For blankmanger, that made he with the beste.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.76 : Youre wifhode he comendeth with the beste.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)6.302 : Folke…fedde hunger with þe best.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)1.281 : She nas nat with the leste of hire stature.
- (1445) ?Bokenham Claudian CS (Add 11814)281/264 : Why is not he redde with the worthiest?
- a1450(?a1349) ?Rolle Luf es lyf (Cmb Dd.5.64)4 : If þou wil luf þus as I say, þou may be wyth þe beste.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)14.472 : He Sawgh…A semly knyht there, araied with the best.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)732/17 : So that nyght they were reposed with the beste.
- (1477) Paston2.415 : I wold have hym sumwhat large, not wyth the largist, but no smalle hors.
4.
On the side of (sb., God, a virtue, vice, etc.), with the party of, in sympathy with; holden ~, to hold with (sb. or sth.), side with [see also holden v.(1) 24.(b)]; holden ~ hound and (~) hare, take both sides; seuen ~, be followers of (Jesus); stonden ~, stand for (justice), uphold.
Associated quotations
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)4675 : Swa forrwerrpesst tu þin Godd, & haldesst wiþþ þatt ahhte.
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)14/211 : Þi wil…halt wið leccherie.
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)2308 : He swore Þat he sholde with him halde.
- a1350 Horn (Hrl 2253)80/1408 : Þe betere forte spede þe riche he ȝef mede, boþe ȝonge ant olde, wiþ him forte holde.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.12.30 : He that is nat with me is aȝeinus me.
- c1390 Castle Love(1) (Vrn)1001 : Þeose ne mowen Jhesus suwen wiþ.
- c1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)43/17 : Who is not wiþ him is aȝenns him.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)7191,7194 : All with antecrist they holden…And thanne comaunden they to sleen Alle tho that with petre been.
- c1450(a1449) Lydg.Endure(2) (Add 36983)33 : He that holdeth bothe with hounde & hare…may no while endure.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)263/19-20 : Þou hast a crokyd tunge, heldyng wyth hownd and wyth hare.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)108/22 : They juged hym for ever whyle he lyved to be with all ladyes and to fyght for hir quarels.
- c1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)398 : He ys not ydyll þat wyth Gode ys.
- 1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)16/23 : Ther was he sworne…for to be a true kyng to stand with true justyce fro thens forth.
- c1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)1059 : Vertu was full heuy, when he sy Frewyll Take part with Vyce.
5.
(a) In expressions of comparison: compared to (sb.), compared with; liken ~, to compare (oneself) with (sb.);
(b) in expressions of similarity or identity: like (sb. or sth.), as; lik ~, the same (…) ~; fals ~, false like (the fiend); also, in phrases introducing a direct quotation or a paraphrase: seien ~, to say as (sb., a text) says (certain specified words); maken objeccioun ~ galenes wordes, make an objection citing Galen’s words (to the effect that sth. is so);
(c) in expressions of equality: to (sb. or sth.), with; even ~, equal to (sb. or sth.); also, equivalent to (an action), tantamount to; evening (per) ~, an) equal to (God, a person of the Trinity, an apostle); comparen ~, to be equal to (sb.); comparisounen ~, make (sb.) equal to (sb. else), treat as equal to.
Associated quotations
a
- a1350 Ichot a burde in a (Hrl 2253)26 : He is…dernest in dale, ant wiþ eueruch a gome gladest in gale.
- c1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)300 : For þat mote in his mawe mad hym, I trowe, Þaȝ hit lyttel were hym wyth, to wamel at his hert.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)185/13 : I may noȝt lickene me with you.
b
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)3090 : Þatt Godess enngell…Droh ut of Ysayȝess boc Wittness off Cristess come…Þatt wass inoh all an wiþþ þatt Þatt Godess enngell seȝȝde Till Sannte Marȝe.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)7931 : Wop wass uss bitacnedd wel Þurrh cullfre & turrtle baþe, Forr þeȝȝre sang iss lic wiþþ wop.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.259 : Of…þe firste kyngdoms, as it were of þe same age wiþ þe kyngdom of Assiries, firste we schal write.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)8.70 : He þat beggiþ or bit, but he haue nede, He is fals wiþ þe fend & kiliþ þe nedy.
- c1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)51/4 : Sei wiþ Bernard: ‘Goode Ihesu, be þou to me Ihesu, þat is, be þou my Sauiour.’
- c1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)51/8 : Rule þe bi Godis lawe…and so be a king, offringe wiþ þe Þre Kinges gold and murre and sence.
- a1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)11/3 : Of mekenes spekis sain benet in þis sentence, & sais with hali scripture: ‘Omnis qui se exaltat.’
- a1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)23/11 : Ȝif it happede…þat thi lord comaundede owt þat is to Crist contrarie, þou art asoiled in þat forme his obediense, for þoow he be þi lord here, as anemptis god, he is but with þe a seruaunt.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.319 : As þe spirit þat is mannis soule is þe same persone wiþ him, so þe secounde persone of God is þe same persone wiþ þis man.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)175a/b : Þe sexte [recipe]…is þe same wiþ þis aforeseide but þat þer schal be as moche of þe sal gemme as off þe verdegrece and it is þe strenger.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)76/22 : His doctryn…is al oone and þe same with þe brigge.
- a1450(c1433) Lydg.St.Edm.(Hrl 2278)395/1036 : With Tideus he hadde eek hardynesse.
- c1440(?a1400) ?Nassyngton Trin.& U.(Thrn)88-9,90 : Thus has man beyng…With stanes, & lyfe with grysse & treez, And felyng with bestez…And with Angells skill & mynde.
- ?a1450 Lanfranc (Add 12056)45/33 : Ne no man make an obiectioun wiþ galyens wordys þat we scholde be ware, in ioyninge þe partyes of a wounde togedre, þat non here ne oyle ne scholde noȝt entre wiþynne þe lippes of a wounde þet beþ y-brouȝt togedre.
- c1425(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)28 : Þat Crist wold þole al þis schuld we be glad, and leren to þole wiþ him.
- a1500 Rolle MPass.(2) (CmbAdd 3042)94 : Þoru þi merci and grace we moun repente of oure trespas & mys-dedis with seint Petir.
c
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)10991 : Faderr & Sune & Haliȝ Gast, Illc an effninng wiþþ oþerr.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)43/454 : ‘Mi leafdi Iuliene,’ qð he, ‘euening wið apostel,’ [etc.].
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)16/108 : Nis na þing euening…wið Godd.
- a1275 Louerd asse þu ard (Trin-C B.14.39)347 : Ate feste of seint benedist þenne is þe dai euene wid þe nist.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)14523 : Ȝif he hafde genge efne wið Gurmunde, Gurmund weore sone islaȝen.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Gen.30.8 : Þe lord haþ comparysound me with [L cum] my syster.
- c1450(a1400) Lavynham Treat.7 Dead.Sins (Hrl 211)1/29 : He desyrede for his fayrhed to haue be peer wt god.
- c1425(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)39 : To moue hem fro office for euer…Þis schal be heuen wiþ deposing.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)317 : Thei ben so fewe that thei may not compare with hem.
6a.
In temporal phrases expressing immediate or simultaneous action: (a) ~ this crie (noise), at this cry (noise), as soon as this cry (noise) was raised; ~ this (that) word, with this (that) word, as soon as this (that) word was spoken; sterven forth ~ tale, to die as soon as (one’s) tale is told;
(b) with demonstrative pron. as obj.: ~ this (that), ~ this (that) ilke, ~ than, at this (that), at this (that) very moment, hereupon, thereupon, then, at once;
(c) in phrases implying, somewhat elliptically, both simultaneous action and causality: ~ him (the quene), at the same time as someone’s (the queen’s) coming, along with someone (the queen); paien ~ everi crop, to pay (a certain sum) at the time of every crop, pay with the harvest of every crop.
Associated quotations
a
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)4157 : Wiþ þis word…he tok hem bo.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.856 : With that word we ryden forth oure weye.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.885 : He told out his felonie, And starf forth with his tale anon.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)8.1389 : This Maiden…schryhte…with this noise and with this cry, Out of a barge faste by…Men sterten out.
- a1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)10462 : Vtayne wid þis word gan tene.
- c1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)179/22 : Þe emperour…vithe þise wordes vente is veye.
- a1500(c1400) St.Erk.(Hrl 2250)321 : Wyt þat worde þat he warpyd þe wete of eghen.
- a1500 NPass.(Hrl 215)175/433 : Whiþ þat word ihesu gan forþ wende.
b
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)33/343 : ‘Sei me swiðe hwet tu beo & hweonene & hwa þe hider sende,’ ant he wið þet ilke feng to hwenden heowes ant warð swuch as he wes vnhwiht of helle.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)96/675 : ‘Monie schulen þurh þe ȝet turne to me.’ Wið þis ilke, [he] steap up…ant steah into þe heouene.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)481 : Caim…starf wið-ðan.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1409 : Laban and his moder wið-ðan Fagneden wel ðis sondere-man.
- c1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)2362 : Oway sir tristrem ȝode; Þe geaunt com wiþ þis And souȝt To hele his honde þat was his.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)669 : Þus William þouȝt witterly and wiȝtly wiþ þat ilk.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)2591 : Þan suld þe oxspring of abram Vn-to þair land…To bruke þair heritage…Sar was barnles yit wit þis, þof sco gun ȝern þer-efter wiss.
- a1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)11119 : Vr leuedi…went again to nazareth; wid þis…Hir wamb itself bigan to kith.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)18.425 : Riȝt with þat I waked.
- a1425 Arth.& M.(LinI 150)202 : Þeo barons toke leue wiþ þis.
- c1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)212 : With that hir eyen up she casteth.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)32/27 : Kynge Carados was smytten to the erthe; With that com the Kynge with the Hondred Knyghtes and rescowed kynge Carados.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)973/32 : With that sir Bors lyffte up hys honde and wolde have smyttyn hys brothir.
- a1500(c1400) St.Erk.(Hrl 2250)341 : Wyt this cessyd his sowne; sayd he no more.
- c1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)1268 : And euen with that came in Dame Nature.
c
- ?c1470 Extent Kilkenny in Curtis Ormond Deeds 2 (DubNLI D 1517. m.2)355 : Yt thes bene ye usagis and ye coustumis of the County Tiperar that every acre yt ys errabil schal pay viii d. wt every crop…for ye rent.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) Ctn.(Hrl 2261)497 : Mony abusions comme from Boemia into Englonde with this qwene.
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)1/13 : Þe…comyng of Cryst ynto þys world broght ioy and blysse wyth hym.
6b.
In temporal phrases expressing duration of time: within (a short time), in the course of (a few years).
Associated quotations
- c1440 PLAlex.(Thrn)18/29 : Alexander & his men went to þe citee of Gaza…& wit schorte while þay wan it.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)329/26 : With a few yeris þai war passand riche men.
- c1450 Siege Troy(1) (ArmsAr 22)15/165 : So, wyth a lytel stowynde, sir ercules filde þe kyng to grownde.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)202 : He be-come an hermyte and with schorte tyme dyde.
7a.
(a) With respect to (sb. or sth.), in regard to, as regards, concerning; as far as (sb. or sth.) is concerned; hou hit is ~, how it fares with (sb.), how (sb.) is; what chere ~ the?, how are you?; what is ~ the?, what is the matter with you?;
(b) hurkelen doun ~ hed, to bend (one’s) head down, hang (one’s) head.
Associated quotations
a
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.675 : He…cydde him mid writ & mid worde hu his breðre Peada & Wulfhere & se abbot Saxulf heafden wroht an minstre, Medeshamstede wæs gehaten, & þet hi hit heafden gefreod wið kyning & wið biscop of ealle þewdom.
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1116 : & Wes eac þyses geares swiðe hefig tyme, winter & strang & lang wið orf & wið ealle þing.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)3574 : Crist wass strang wiþþ hannd inoh To werrpenn dun þe deofell.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)14018 : Crist Þuss seȝȝde till hiss moderr: ‘Whatt falleþþ þiss till me wiþþ þe, Wifmann, þiss þatt tu mælesst?’
- a1225 PMor.(Eg 613(2))287 : Wið þa pine ðe þer beoð, nelle ich eow naht leoȝen.
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)28/444 : Hwet ȝef ha beoð þe wone, þet tu nabbe þi wil wið him?
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)426 : Ðis deuel is mikel wið wil & magt.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)432 : Ðor-quiles ðat adam sorge dreg For abel, caym fro him fleg…Wið dead him stood hinke and age.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)307 : He…graunted him…forto worchen his wille as lord wiþ his owne.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3426 : I am adrad, by seint Thomas, It stondeth nat aright with Nicholas.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)245/4 : Þou schalt fulfille alle þingis þat schulen be seid wiþ vlceribus [L de vlceribus].
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)422 : Hou shal J take on wiþ myne amoure? Shal J any more hym yseen?
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)7.256 : Fisik shal…lerne to laboure wiþ lond lest liflode hym faile.
- a1450(?1404) As þe see (Dgb 102)8 : How it is wiþ hym, y kan not say.
- a1450 7 Sages(3) (Cmb Dd.1.17)2272 : The lady made sory chere. Quod the emperour…‘Dame, what hys wyth the?’
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)115/85 : Say Marie doghtir, what chere with þe?
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)309/1096 : With jhesu is body do ȝour intent.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)51 : There is a seke man; lete vs go se how it is with hym.
- c1600(?c1395) PPl.Creed (Trin-C R.3.15)742 : Y miȝt tymen þo troiflardes to toilen wiþ þe erþe.
b
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)150 : Þat oþer burne watz abayst of his broþe wordez And hurkelez doun with his hede; þe urþe he biholdez.
7b.
In elliptical constructions: (a) with adverb or adverbial phrase, in phrases used absolutely, perh. for vividness, in contexts where a verb is to be understood: an-on oute ~ a knif, at once out with a knife, he at once drew a knife; he of ~ his clothes, he took off his clothes; he oute ~ a sword, he drew a sword; that ech a man up ~ the hed, that every man hold up his head; ~ hire oute of min eie-sight, out of my sight with her, take her away; etc.;
(b) following a modal auxiliary and adverb in contexts where an inf. is to be understood: shal doun ~ pride, shall have (their) pride humbled, shall be brought down in (their) pride; wille ye of ~ his hed, will you behead him.
Associated quotations
a
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)63/685 : ‘Swiðe,’ qð he, ‘wið hire ut of min ehsihðe.’
- c1330 Otuel (Auch)157 : A…kniȝt…braid adon þat heþene kniȝt, & anon out wiþ a knif, & wolde haue reued him his lif.
- c1330 Otuel (Auch)533 : Roulond bi-gan to meuen his blood, Þat otuwel so longe stood, & for tene vp wiþ þe brond, Þat he bar in his hond.
- c1390(1377) Death Edw.III (Vrn)99 : I ou Rede Til þat þis Ympe beo fully growe, Þat vch a Mon vp wiþ þe hede, And Mayntene him boþe heiȝe and lowe.
- c1440 PLAlex.(Thrn)12/38 : He oute wit a swerd and…slewe hym.
- a1450 Parton.(1) (UC C.188)6419 : They oute wyth her bote ryght a-none.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)88 : Anon, of wyth yowr clothes, yf ȝe wyll pray.
- a1500 Parton.(1) (Add 35288)5854 : He off wyth hys cloþes euerychone, And naked to bedde wente a-none.
b
- c1400(1389) Wycl.25 Art.(Dc 273)472 : Anticrist and his proude clerkis schal downe wiþ ther pride…ffor Anticrist in his moste pride schal sodeynly be brouȝt to grounde.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)437 : Wyll ȝe of wyth hys hede!
8.
(a) In constructions expressing the relationship between certain nouns or adjectives and the person or persons to whom their application is limited: to (sb.), for, toward, with [the precise gloss is highly contextual];
(b) in constructions with selected verbs and verb phrases: to (sb.), for (sth.), with (sth.) [the precise gloss is highly contextual]; chargen ~, to entrust (sb.) with (sth., an office); also, charge (sb.) with (the performance of sth.); also, accuse (sb.) of (sth.), bring a charge of [quot. a1425 Ben.Rule(1)]; dispensen (maken dispensacioun) ~, eccl. make dispensation to (sb.) by granting exemption from law, rule, vows, etc. or by mitigation of penalties for infractions of such rules; also, make dispensation for (one’s sins) [quot. a1449]; don merci ~, be merciful to (sb.).
Associated quotations
a
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)5139 : Seuarus…muchele luue heold wið alle þat ȝirnden his grið.
- c1330 SMChron.(Auch)662 : To þe riche he was gode & wiþ þe pouer mild of mode.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.637 : Thise scorneres ben partyng felawes with the deuel.
- a1400(c1250) Floris (Eg 2862)105 : Glad and blythe þey ben him withe.
- a1450(a1396) Hilton CPerf.(Paris angl.41)27 : It is speedful to him…þat he be playn and comown to alle, and not ful hoomly wiþ noone.
- a1500(a1400) Ipom.(1) (Chet 8009)328 : Thou artte wythe thy neybors kynde.
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)82/16 : Yche man ys holden by þe lawe of holy chyrch to fast þes fourty dayes, outtaken hom þat þe lawe dyspensyth wyth for nede.
b
- c1330 7 Sages(1) (Auch)10/172 : He scharged hem wiȝ his message.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Gen.20.13 : Þis mercy þou schalt do with me [L mecum].
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Kings 2.5 : Blessed ȝee of þe lord, þe whiche didyn þis merci wiþ ȝoure lord Saul.
- (1395) Wycl.37 Concl.(Tit D.1)144 : No bisshop diocesan…outake the pope mai dispense with such a man that was auauncid to such a benefice bi symonie.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)20.236 : Charge hem with no cure!
- (a1402) Trev.DCur.(Hrl 1900)76/7 : Þouȝ þe pope dispense wiþ freres touchyng þe lawe.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)2695 : Yit with o thing I thee charge…that thou be large Vnto the mayde that hir doith serue.
- a1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)42/26 : Þabbesse…when sho seis ani of hir sistirs be chargid with sinne…salle noht greue hir sua mikil þat sho fle a-way.
- ?c1430(c1400) Wycl.FCLife (Corp-C 296)191 : Crist…tauȝt not ne chargid vs wiþ sich bodely song.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)64/5 : I wolde not dispense wyth hym of hys vow whyl he myth fulfillyn it.
- a1456(a1449) Lydg.Gloriosa (Trin-C R.3.20)167 : With oure demerytes þy mercy lat dispence.
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)5.246 : We wold desire thanne of þat blyssed kyng [God] he wolde with us make dispensacyon.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)7/8 : So was the knyght charged with the gouernaunce of the prisoners and of the contre.
- ?c1450(?a1400) Wycl.Clergy HP (Lamb 551)390 : Þer may no man dispence wiþ hem of þat boonde.
- ?c1450(?a1400) Wycl.Clergy HP (Lamb 551)393 : Alle…ben charchid wiþ presthode.
- (1466) in Cox Churches Derb.4.86 : Lawrence Luchurche…and thomas leys sonne made ye accompte to the saide Henry cartewrighte and John Makley…of the joels and ornaments that they had in kepyng and were charged with as hereafter foloeth.
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)2.A.1374 : If…the man in prison…for lacke of kepyng is dryve to dye, Who may with you than therof dispence?
9.
(a) In the estimation of (sb., God), in the opinion of; ben wel ~, to be in the good graces of (sb.);
(b) in the experience of (sb.), by the custom of (one or more persons), among.
Associated quotations
a
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)5/30 : Þes ȝunge mon eleusius…wes wel wið þe king.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)112/785 : Ne dred tu nawt…deorewrðe cwen, ant deore wið drihtin of heouene.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Kings 6.22 : I schal ben meeke in my eȝyn, & wiþ þe hand-wymmen of þe whiche þou hast spoken more glorious I schal aperen.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)9521 : He had an anlepe son, þat wit his fader was sa wele.
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)1612 : Poule in hys pystyl puttyth þe prefe, ‘But charyte be wyth þe chefe.’
- a1450 St.Kath.(3) (Richardson 44)49 : He was so gret wyth þe Emperour.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)1/21 : Which of you thre that best doos…the lawe of Mahown schal be the best cheresyd with me.
- (1465) Paston2.308 : Ye stonde…in no gret awe wyth the comowns.
- (1474) Stonor1.149 : Remembryng how grettely in consette ye stonde in London with a gentylwoman.
b
- a1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)8/69 : Þan with þam was none oþer gle, Bot ful fain war þai þat might fle.
- a1425 Here begynnes a new (Roy 17.C.17)8 : That tyme was Sabotte in ther lay That now wyt us es Pasche day.
- ?a1475 LDirige(2) (Dc 322)42 : I haue the gylt, and greuyd sore, ffor synne with me hathe ben to ryue.
- (c1477) Stonor ()2.35 : As ffor my schepe, war sold last ȝer all þatt ever I myght spare…and bott schepe was never so der with us, and yff ȝe myght bye to sum fayr, ȝe myght do better.
10.
(a) In phrases expressing addition or conjunction: in addition to (sb. or sth.), besides, as well as, in conjunction with; also, with negative: except [1st quot.]; also, as quasi-conjunction: and also, and in addition;
(b) inclusive of (sb. or sth.), including;
(c) in the number of (shires);
(d) ~ more, moreover, in addition.
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 SLeg.John (Hrl 2277)8 : He nadd neȝ him noþing For to ȝyue þis pore man wiþ [Ld: bote] a goldene ring.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ps.113.21 : He blessede to alle men þat dreden þe lord, to þe litle with þe more.
- 1389 Nrf.Gild Ret.18 : Euery brother and euery sister shall offeren an halfpeny at ye messe wt ye candel.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Th.(Manly-Rickert)B.2046 : They fette hym first swete wyn…And real spicerye Of gyngebred…And lycorys and eek comyn With sugre.
- a1400(?a1350) Siege Troy(1) (Eg 2862)39/473 : I shal in Grece werre…And wynne þe maistry with muche honoure.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.113 : Bristow kastelle & toun…& slede with alle þe honour, & oþer sex ilkon…Steuen wan þam ilk a stik.
- a1425(?a1400) Cloud (Hrl 674)57/5 : So wol he stere oþer men in spirite to ȝeue us oure needful þinges þat longen to þis liif, as mete & cloþes wiþ alle þeese oþer.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.205 : Þe Sixte, wiþ Clementyns, done myche harm to Goddis lawe.
- ?a1425(a1400) Brut-1377 (Corp-C 174)298/18 : King Edward…distroyed by þe way tounes wiþ þe peple duelling þerinne.
- ?a1425 Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)4/11 : It is nescessarie to a Surgen also to knowen, wiþ his anothomye…þre þinges, þe whiche ben rotes and elementes of alle medicacioun.
- (1427-8) Rec.St.Mary at Hill69 : Payd for a lok to þe same dore with boltes & staples, vj s. viij d.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)217 : It wolde seme þat þi preier, wiþ þyn holy lijf and passioun, lord jhsu, maad not þe remedie and forȝeuenes of synnes, which remedie and forȝeuenes of synnys was doon longe afore þi preier wiþ þyn holy lijf and passioun.
- (1448) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1399 : Item, in monee assigned for Coles for the forge Ropes, Barowes, gynnes, herdelles…And othere diuerse thynges…with cariage of the seid stuffes fro the water…and with othere diuerse expenses…xxx li.
- a1450(a1396) Hilton CPerf.(Paris angl.41)6 : Whanne þou art turmentid with tribulacioun or wiþ temptacioun, vse also ofte wiþ þi praier confessioun.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)8703 : Dauyd…Was…To be callyd a myghty kyng…And wyth al thys, a famous knyht.
- c1475 Court Sap.(Trin-C R.3.21)1873 : She red theym all wyth other tretyse mo.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)191 : Yn the fowarde…was slayn Syr Umfray Stafforde and Wylliam Stafford…whythe many moo othyr of mene personys.
- 1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)16/5 : All these with many other were alweyes about Arthur day and nyghte.
b
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)11211 : Recneþþ he þe kinn Off Cristess mennisscnesse Þurrh weress fulle fowwerrtiȝ Annd an wiþþ Crist himm sellfenn.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)79 : His firme kinde dei was a-gon On walkenes turn, wid dai and nigt.
- c1390(?c1350) Jos.Arim.(Vrn)355 : Þreo dayes with þe niht nou he þe schal driue.
c
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.91 : In Engelond beeþ seuen and þritty schires, and so is Cornewayle acounted wiþ þe oþere schires.
d
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)391/31 : Wyth more, I promyse you, as I am trewe knyght, that, [etc.].
11.
In adj. phrases modifying a possessor, controller, bearer, container, etc.: in possession of (sth.), possessed of; in control of (sth.); in charge of (sth.); bearing (sb. or sth.), containing, having; bok ~ evaungeles, a book containing the Gospels.
Associated quotations
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)1365 : An bucc rann þær aweȝȝ all cwicc Wiþþ all þe follkess sinne.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)4/19 : Poure ba ant riche comen…to þe temple i þe tun…euchan wið his lac.
- a1275 *St.Marg.(2) (Trin-C B.14.39)220 : Þe sergaunz were snelle ant brousten hire son, wid þe rode on hire hond þat crist was on idon.
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)5/38 : He fond bi þe stronde…Schipes fiftene wiþ sarazins kene.
- c1330 Degare (Auch)100 : Iich am comen here a fairi knyȝte; Mi kynde is armes for to were On horse to ride wiȝ scheld and spere.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1639 : The hunters…stondeth at the gappe with a spere.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.666 : A Briton book writen with Euangiles Was fet, and on this book he swoor anoon She gilty was.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)prol.53 : Heremites on an heep With hoked staues Wenten to Walsyngham.
- c1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)55/25 : Þe deuel…furst…stureþ hem to pamppe and pompe her flesche…and so hoppen on þe piler wiþ here hornis, lockes, garlandes of golde and of riche perlis.
- a1425(?c1350) Ywain (Glb E.9)759 : A capon rosted broght sho sone, A clene klath, and brede þarone, And a pot with riche wine.
- a1425(?c1375) NHom.(3) Leg.(Hrl 4196)21/83 : A lion…rafe him sunder…lim fro lim And toke a grete party with hym…And of þe remenand hundes ete; A grete blak dog with his right hand Come into þe hall.
- (1443-50) Pet.Chanc.in Seld.Soc.10134 : Other persones…entred the house of youre seid besecher…seesed…his purse with xxv s. of money therin.
- a1450 ALacrim.(Bod 423)p.224 : His aungel, with a palme, anone He sent.
- (1466) Stonor1.76 : Richard…prayeth þat he may be dismissed out of this Courte with his costes and damages for his wrongfull vexacion.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)359/121 : Inpossible to god nothyng…he that sent Abbacuc with mete to babylonye.
- 1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)19/23 : The comyns of Carlyon aroos with clubbis and stavys and slewe many knyghtes.
- a1500(?c1440) Lydg.HGS (Lnsd 699)147 : Somers ar sent euyr to-forn With gardeviaundis.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)5564 : Palomydon…presit into hauyn…With xxxti shippes full shene.
12.
In adj. phrases of description: (a) characterized by (an internal quality, a state or condition), having (spiritual hunger, a gentle heart, etc.); ~ ord and bouten ende, having a beginning and without an end; also, in phrases equivalent to a simple adj.: ~ skil (wit), reasonable; ~ the (his) lif, alive; ~ wel muchel sorinesse, very sorry, very sad; also, in phrase equivalent to a participial adj.: ~ mischef, injured, wounded;
(b) characterized by (an external feature), having (sth. as a constituent part, distinguishing feature or characteristic, etc.), marked by;
(c) in descriptive epithets: blaunchefleur ~ the whit side, the king ~ the hundred knightes, etc.;
(d) chiefly med. characterized by (a symptom), accompanied by (a characteristic morbid condition or action);
(e) med. characterized by (a therapeutic property).
Associated quotations
a
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)2579 : Hire þohht…wass clene, & all wiþþ witt & all wiþþ skill.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)9676 : Sawle iss swa summ enngell iss, Wiþþ ord & butenn ende.
- a1250 Wooing Lord (Tit D.18)279 : Bote pouerte wið menske is eað for to þolien.
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)55/922 : Rymenild was in Westernesse Wiþ wel muchel sorinesse.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)417 : Þe werwolf wan him bi wiþ a wilde hert.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2282 : This Emelye with herte debonaire Hir body wessh.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.451 : The moiste fleume with his cold Hath in the lunges…Ordeined him a propre stede, To duelle ther.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)3771 : Summe hadden þre, summe four wounded [read: woundes]; Fele weren on fote and fele on hors Wiþ meschief.
- a1425(a1400) Titus & V.(Pep 2014)1922 : Eche oþer gan slawe, That þer ne lefte man, childe, ne wyff, But twey knyȝttes, with þe lyff.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)100/14 : The paynemes seyn þat no cristene man may not longe duelle ne enduren with the lif in þat cytee, but dyen within schort tyme & noman knoweth not the cause.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)342/11 : I delayede it for to make þee haue mynde of þat soule which came to holy chirche wiþ greet goostly hungir.
- c1440 C.d'Orl.Ayens the comyng (Paris fr.25458)220/6 : Wynter weth hys ydylnes Is dyscomfet.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)25/2 : He vnnethis gatt away with his life.
- a1500(?c1440) Lydg.HGS (Lnsd 699)419 : He vnethe escapid with the liff.
b
- c1225 Mirie it is (Rwl G.22)2 : [M]irie it is while sumer ilast, wið fugheles song.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (Hrl 2277)p.60 : His lymes also he bihuld, hou gent hi were and freo: Honden faire, with longe fyngres.
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)700 : Grim solde…Shep wit wolle, neth wit horn.
- a1350 Ne mai no lewed (Hrl 2253)22 : Þer sit an old cherl in a blake hure…An heme in an herygoud wiþ honginde sleuen.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1683 : Crafti men…fonden…to flen wilde bestes, hyndes and hertes wiþ hydes wel fayre.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Par.28.15 : Who so euere myȝtyn not gon & weren wiþ feble body, þei puttyn hem on bestis & ladden to Jericho.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2008 : Yet saugh I ther…The nayl ydryuen in the shode anyght, The colde deeth with mouth gapyng vpright.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)285/6 : Euerich beest wiþ grece nouȝt departid from þe fleisch haue litil fatnes in þe wombe.
- (a1399) Oath Bk.Colchester7 : A Basenet with vyntayle, j d.
- a1400(c1250) Floris (Eg 2862)923 : He stood vp among hem al, With semblaunt wroþ.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)29185 : Þar was a woman…þat sum time wat wit me-selri.
- (1424) EEWills56/6 : I wille þat…Thomas my sone haue…too peces of siluere whit lowe feet.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)159/2 : Ell he rytt in a charett with iiij wheles.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)69/19 : Þe quantite of a comune ȝerde schal be 8 or 9 fynger brede of lengþe wiþ a mesurable gretenesse.
- c1430(c1380) Chaucer PF (Benson-Robinson)363 : The raven wys, the crowe with vois of care, The throstil old, the frosty feldefare.
- (1442) Invent.Gild in PSAL ser.2.5121 : Item, vj quisshenes with ymages of men and damselles.
- (1449) Will Sus.in Sus.RS 43206 : My flatt pece of sylver wiv a sterre.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)265/31 : Þe howe…wherwyth ȝe muste stubbe out þe grauel…hath an heed wyth two endys & an handyll.
- (1462) Paston1.108 : A gret crosse of gold wyth a flatte diamant, a flat rubye, and iij gret perlis.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) Ctn.(Hrl 2261)497 : Mony abusions comme from Boemia into Englonde…and specially schoone with longe pykes.
- a1500(c1400) St.Erk.(Hrl 2250)55 : Mony clerke in þat clos wyt crownes ful brode Þer besiet hom a-boute noȝt to brynge hom in wordes.
- a1500 Horse(5) (Sln 1764)167 : The best colore is blacke baye wyt a gylt mowthe and gylt flankys.
- c1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)628 : Aftyr whom rood Glotony with hys fat berde.
- (1459) Invent.Fastolf(2) in Archaeol.21277 : Item, j Crosse of sylver & gylt, withe oure Lady and Seynt Iohn.
c
- a1400(c1250) Floris (Eg 2862)362 : Herewith þow may þat swete þing Wynne…Blauncheflour with þe white syde.
- a1400 SMChron.(Add 19677)740 : He was…Icluped…Edmund with þe irene side.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)5.m.2.1-2 : Homer with the hony mouth (that is to seyn, Homer with the swete ditees) singeth that the sonne is cler.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)33/14 : The Kynge with the Hundred Knyghtes behelde the grete damage.
d
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)369/1 : Þe noseþrilles haueþ rennynge of blood…Þe rennynge comeþ fro þe brayne…wiþ fnesinge and wiþ ache and prickinge in þe forehed.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)388/22 : If þe matere is in þe stomake þe mouþ is soure wiþ mystringe of yȝen and turgidinesse and wiþ oþir wel yuel signes, [etc.].
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)10.78 : Al-so hem-selue suffren muche hunger, And wo in winter-tyme with wakynge a nyghtes.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)97b/a : Summe of þe woundes þat persen ben wiþ deperdicioun of substaunce of þe bone & summe ben wiþouten deperdicioun.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)25b/16 : Outhir it is with outyn the sperytes and þan makyth it a feuer cotidyan interpelat withe shakyng.
e
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)618/27-8 : Briane is a rote hote and drye in þe secounde degree, wiþ clensynge and wiþ maturynge.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)619/28 : Coralle is knowen colde in þe firste degre, drye in þe secounde, with restreynynge.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)627/6 : Piretrum, pilettre, is a rote, hote and drye in þe þridde degre, wiþ drawynge and wiþ clensynge.
13a.
In adv. phrases expressing manner: (a) with (an attendant posture, gesture, look, manner of speaking, etc.);
(b) with (an attendant emotion, mental state, frame of mind, attitude, demeanor); also, with (sth. as a manifestation of emotion); ~ god (laughinge) herte, ~ herte blithe, with a cheerful heart, cheerfully, merrily; ~ tere(s, tearfully, with tears;
(c) in selected phrases, freq. equivalent to a simple adv.: ~ bodi and ~ soule, in body and soul; also, with weakened force: completely; ~ bost, arrogantly; ~ diligence, diligently; ~ equalite, equally; ~ folie, foolishly; ~ force, stoutly, forcefully; ~ haste (randoun, rape, spede), with haste, speedily; ~ herte, eagerly, earnestly, heartily; ~ hole herte, wholeheartedly; ~ holhede, fully; ~ main (might, violence), violently; ~ menske, honorably; ~ mesure (temperament, temperaunce), in moderation, to a moderate degree, moderately; ~ peine, with effort; ~ pes, peaceably; ~ purpos, on purpose, deliberately; ~ a ren, at a run; ~ resoun (right), with reason (right), reasonably, rightly; also, justly; properly; naturally; ~ no resoun, by no means; ~ on (unite), unanimously, all together; ~ shine, brilliantly; ~ silence, in silence, silently; ~ skil, capably, with skill, skillfully; ~ unright (wo, wrong), wrongly, wrongfully; unjustly; ~ so gret blindnesse (hou gret ignoraunce, etc.), so blindly (how ignorantly, etc.); ~ unskil, unprofitably; ~ (ful) wille, very) willingly; willfully; ~ god wille, gladly; ~ worshipe, honorably, without disgrace;
(d) ~ al might (strengthes, etc.), ~ might(es (main), with all (one’s) might, to the best of (one’s) ability;
(e) ~ nede (peine), scarcely, barely; also, ?hardly ever [last quot.].
Associated quotations
a
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)53/571 : Heo…feng to þonki þus godd wið honden up aheuene.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)18/111 : Þe keiser bistearede hire wið swide steape ehnen.
- c1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)37 : To hire louerd heo sede wiþ stille dreme, ‘Sire, nimestu no ȝeme Hu þis child murninge sit?’
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.10 : Smale foweles…slepen al the nyght with open eye.
- a1400 Ancr.(Pep 2498)27/18 : On Ester Euen…ȝe may speke wiþ loude woorde what ȝe willeþ.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)1489 : He greteþ þe Romaynes wiþ chere bliþe.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)37 : She cryeth wiþ an hos vois as an wood hounde dothe.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)1.111 : On knees she fil biforn Ector adown, With pitous vois and tendrely wepynge His mercy bad.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)70/18 : Þan sche fel down & cryed wyth lowde voys.
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)532 : He…behelde me wiþ grymly look.
- c1450(?a1405) Lydg.CBK (Frf 16)216 : To here this man…His mortal wo and his perturbaunce Compleynyng, now lying in a traunce With loke vp-cast and reuful chere.
- c1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)248/15 : She, with…a meke countenaunce, answerd, ‘Deo gracias.’
- a1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)47 : Than answerd the bedyl wyth an hygh voyce, [etc.].
b
- a1275 *Body & S.(4) (Trin-C B.14.39)17 : Þat bodi spac wid onde.
- ?c1250 Of on þat is so fayr (Eg 613)14 : Bi-sek him wit milde mod.
- a1300(c1250) Floris (Vit D.3)70 : He…gon Blancheflur bimene Wit teres riue ase a scur of r[e]ne.
- c1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)682 : If I nere into þis tur icume, Wiþ mireȝþe þu miȝtest herinne wune.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2375 : x asses…Gaf he [Joseph] is breðere wið herte bliðe And bad hem rapen hem homward swiðe.
- c1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)2071 : To tristrem he com wiþ ille.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1187 : Hasteli wiþ god hert nouȝ hiȝes ȝou to þe dede.
- (c1375) Chaucer CT.Mk.(Manly-Rickert)B.3368 : And thanne with many a teere He thanked god.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Ph.(Manly-Rickert)C.211 : With fadres pitee stikynge thurgh his herte, Al wolde he from his purpos nat conuerte.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)4.917 : I mai wel with sauf conscience Excuse me of necgligence Towardes love.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)1.165 : Þe fader…Loked on vs with loue and lete his sone deye.
- a1425(?c1350) Ywain (Glb E.9)761 : He ete and drank with ful gude chere.
- a1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)23/1 : Yef sho wyl noht o þis maner a-mende, bot wid pride defende hir dede…þabbes & al þe cuuent sal pray for hir.
- a1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)45/15-16 : Whit mekenes sal sho muster to þabbes hir sekenes, and noht with pride.
- a1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)4/30 : Þis preier owiþ to be seid wiþ likyng of soule, wiþ certeyn hope to spede of al þat we in þis preier skilfuly hym biseche.
- a1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)9/9 : If…man askeþ erþely goodis of God, he oweþ to aske hem wiþ drede.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)10219 : And þou part from þem with yll, of counsell þen can we no more.
- 1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)18/29 : They departed with wrath.
- a1500(a1400) Ipom.(1) (Chet 8009)1022 : He may goo wyth an lawghyng herte.
- a1500(?a1450) Lady BH (Hrl 3810)11 : Euery creature to crist schulde pray, and worschip god with gode entent.
- a1500 Conq.Irel.(Rwl B.490)56/10 : Wytht myche sorow of hert he went hym with the host to Watyrford.
c
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)pref.10 : Crist toc dæþ o rodetre All wiþþ hiss fulle wille.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)2276 : Ȝho wass turrnedd swa till Godd Wiþþ bodiȝ & wiþþ sawle.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)6104 : Swa þatt tin swinnc be clene swinnc & att rihht time swunnkenn &…aȝȝ wiþþ skill.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)8590 : Eȝȝnoc wass an full haliȝ mann & Drihhtin swiþe cweme, & Godd himm ledde aweȝȝ fra menn Wiþþ bodiȝ & wiþþ sawle, I fell & flæsh wiþþutenn dæþ.
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)12/152 : Þu of earnest meden to beon englene euening i þe eche blisse of heouene, & wið goð rihte.
- a1250(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Tit D.18)63/809 : He…adun weorp þe wiðer-wine of helle, Mon imonnes cunde þet wið woh hefde to deað idrahen moncun.
- a1250 Ancr.(Tit D.18)8/26 : Wið god rihte muhen ehþurles beon icleped eilþurles, for ha hauen muchel eil don to moni anker.
- a1250 Ancr.(Tit D.18)112/19 : Ich am a wumman & schulde wið rihte beo mare schomeful to haue ispeken as ispek.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)136 : Knov, cristene man, wat tu crist higtest…ðu higtes to leuen on him & hise lages luuien to helden wit herte ðe bodes of holi k[i]rke.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)331 : He bit us don ure bukes wille, Eten & drinken wið unskil.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)1268 : Þat destourbez al þat lond with onriȝte.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1598 : Fro bersabe he ferde wið sped.
- a1325(?c1300) NPass.(Cmb Gg.1.1)16 : Þe Ieues…seidin he ferde with folie.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)356 : Fortiger and his ost Oȝain com wiþ gret bost.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)7812 : A litel knape To Bedingram com wiþ rape.
- c1330(?a1300) Guy(2) (Auch)p.426 : Sadok…smot him wiþ miȝt and main.
- c1330(?c1300) Bevis (Auch)210/4480 : Sire Miles wiþ gret randoun Lep vpon a dromedary.
- c1330 KTars (Auch)60/1148 : He rode to him wiþ mayn.
- ?1316 SMChron.(Roy 12.C.12)990 : In is time al Engelonde Wes entredited with wronge Thourh an erchebischop.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)12/28 : Onder þo demere wes Iesu crist y-demd wyþ wrong to þe biddinge of þri kueade ieus.
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)34.22 : Ne gladen hij nouȝt vp me, þat ben contrarious oȝains me, þat hated me wyþ wylle.
- 1372 Þe garlond þt (Adv 18.7.21)18 : Ȝif þi lift hand helde or take Any þing with wrong, Lo, my lift hand for þi sake Is drawen out olong.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)163 : Ȝe þat loven…to listen ani more, alle wiȝth on hol hert to þe heiȝ King of hevene preieth.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)515 : Þouȝh he were komen…of kende cherls…ȝut wiþ worchepe I wene I miȝt him wel love.
- (c1375) Chaucer CT.Mk.(Manly-Rickert)B.3489 : I seye so worshipful a creature And wys…and large with mesure.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)1001 : Þay folȝyeaþ after wiþ rendouns.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)3036 : Leggeþ on, Lordes…wyþ force & smyteþ strokes smerte.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Judg.11.31 : Who so euere…comeþ to me, turnynge aȝeen wiþ pece fro þe sones of Amon, I schal offryn hym brent sacrifice to þe lord.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Rv.(Manly-Rickert)A.4079 : The wyf cam lepyng inward with a ren.
- a1400(c1250) Floris (Eg 2862)56 : We auȝt to fonde þat Florens lyf with menske in londe.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)3768 : With resun [F par resun] mayst þou þe wraþþe and flyte Aȝens vyleynye and synne.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)4373 : We aght noght wit no resun Til our lauerd do slik tresun.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)4430 : Now es ioseph in prisun strang Don…wijt wrang.
- c1400 Wrey þy self (Cmb Ii.3.8)p.80 : Say þou sotȝ and noȝynge oȝer, wyith wil þy sennes tellen and leten.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.2585 : He rofe hym euene to þe nouele doun…wiþ so gret a peyne, Þat in þe feld he parted lay on tweyne.
- a1425(c1300) NHom.(1) Alex.(Ashm 42)62 : His fader wiþ mensk…Gert him a faire maiden spouse.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.946 : With al the haste goodly that they myghte They spedde hem fro the soper unto bedde.
- a1425 Hayle bote (Wht)6 : Haile Mary…To the with hart I calle and cry.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)172a/b : Þo ben þe beste medicines þat maie ben, for þei ben stiptik & drie wiþ equalite.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)50/21-2 : Seest þou not wiþ how greet ignoraunce, wiþ so greet blyndnes, and wiþ so manye vnkyndenessis…þis holy mylk & glorious blood is mynystrid?
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)623/5 : Glandes, akorns, is a fruyte colde wiþ temperaunce [*Ch.(1): wiþ temperament] and drye in þe secounde degree and sowdynge.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)137/6 : On a tyme a rekles man…wyth wil & wyth purpose kest a bolful of watyr on hir heuyd comyng in þe strete.
- (1440) Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)669 : The cardinalis aftir his deth witȝ gret vnyte Chosen…Bisschop of Vyenne, a holy man for þe nonys.
- (1440) Visit.Alnwick350b : Wythe alle your diligence…ye gare seke your sustere Anneys Butylere that is owte in apostasye, and bryng hire home to hire cloystere.
- c1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)39/23 : The welle…He wan fro the serpent with grete peyne.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)8242 : Þou hast halde [vr. haues] þer lond wyþ wrong.
- a1450 Diseases Women(2) (Sln 2463)144 : For þis pissorie destroieth all maner molis of þe marice & bringith forth with gret violence.
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)943 : Al wiþ on þey gretten þe kyng.
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)775 : Whan a pipe is blowen sharpe, The air ys twyst with violence And rent.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)1229 : This to maynten with holhed thei wett his coyte with kyddes blud.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)361/18 : ‘I pray you that at this feste I may be your chambirlayne’; ‘With good wyll,’ seyde sir Gareth.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)7.403 : Noo man schalle absente hym from servyce…but the…hostiler, whiche schalle serve the gestes with silence.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)146/15 : I saw a grett lyght with shene shyne.
- a1500(?a1450) Paston1.50 : Ser, I…thank yow of youre grete laboure wyth all myn hert.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)806 : Sho gafe hym a glasse with a good lycour, And bade…To werke it with mesure.
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- a1275 Judas (Trin-C B.14.39)31 : Vp him stod peter ant spec wid al is miste.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)587 : He is ure soule spuse; luue we him wið migte.
- c1300 Evang.(Dlw 22)165 : Loue god wit al þi skile.
- c1390 Castle Love(1) (Vrn)28 : Vche mon ouȝte wiþ al his mihte Loftsong syngen to God ȝerne.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.2446 : His hors he doþ ateyne, Enhastynge hym with al his myȝt.
- (1424-5) Doc.Lynn in Nrf.Archaeol.6225 : Sire, ȝe shal truli wiþ al ȝoure power mayntene & sustene þe kingis pees wiþynne þis ffraunchise.
- a1425(?c1375) NHom.(3) Leg.(Hrl 4196)57/60 : Þat ilk figure of þe rode Honurde þai with mayn.
- a1450(a1401) Chastising GC (Bod 505)158/27 : Ȝit wil I traueil wiþ al my strengþis þat I mowe haue hym heere.
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)267 : Wyth all oure mythis we kyngys thre Nyth and day besy we be For to distroy Mankende.
- c1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)751 : Thou shalt hooly, with al thy wyt, Doo thyn entent to herkene hit.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)57a/b : Þat þou enforse þee to doon wiþ al þi myȝt aftir her noble counseyl.
- a1500(a1400) Libeaus (Lamb 306)16 : His moder hym kept with hir myght That he shulde se no knyght J-armed in no maner.
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- c1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)175/11 : He…with grete payn [CQ(2): vnnethe] might speke a woorde more.
- c1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)231/16 : So many there be of chiefes and maistres that with payn they may fynde felawes and seruauntes.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)152/39 : The doloure is to me so stronge that wyth nede y may my breth wyth-draw.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)166/33 : Therfor…consydyr ye that youre yrysshe enemys ne hare auncestres, wyth-nede any of them was trewe to you or to youre fadyr.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)180/2 : Thys Emperoure, any officere that he had makyd with nethe he chaungyd but yf hit were for opyn falsnys.
13b.
In adv. phrases expressing attendant actions, freq. with gerund as obj.: with (an attendant or a concurrent action, sound, cry, etc.), amid; also, with (an implied action, the result of an action); ~ processioun, in procession; bisi ~, busy doing (work), busy with; finden (taken) ~, to catch (sb.) in (an act, a falsehood); todrauen ~ fom (frothe), refl. suffer convulsions with foaming at the mouth.
Associated quotations
- a1300 I syke (Dgb 2)3 : Hi sike…wan hic wit wepinge bi-holde a-pon þe tre.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)1846-7 : Ech preost somonede is paroche…to beon alle ȝare a-ȝein him with procession for-to wende, So þat with processiones manie and faire i-novȝ…þe contreie a-ȝein him drouȝ.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)7945 : Þai vp stirt and…maden dedeli biker; Agreuein wiþ þis bikering…com on hem flinge.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)601 : Melior…wiþ a sad sikyng seide to hire þanne, [etc.].
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1053 : Wiþ clipping and kessing þei kauȝt here leve.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Luke 9.39 : A spirit takith him, and sudenly he crieth, and hurtlith down, and to-drawith him with froth [WB(2): fome].
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2953-4 : The Grekes…Thries ryden al the fyr aboute Vpon the left hand with a loud shoutynge And thries with hir speres claterynge.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)547/17 : Oure lord was ifonge wiþ processioun [L processionaliter].
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)832/19 : Aȝeins þat perille gootes melk is best ydronke…wiþ continuel moeuynge of þe pacient.
- a1400 Cursor (Frf 14)8644 : Wiþ þi falshede þou sal be tan.
- a1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)21/23 : Wid greting sal sho do…þe penance þat es laid on hir.
- a1425 LOL (Wnds E.I.I)93/17 : Þe Hooli Goost cam doun in þe þridde our of þe day in a bodily liknesse on hem in tunguis of fyr wiþ greet soun.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)107/26 : On Corpus Christi Day…þe prestys born þe Sacrament a-bowte þe town wyth solempne processyon.
- c1456(a1449) Lydg.Epistle Sibille (Ashm 59)50 : With hir handewerk and hir houswyfrede Sheo besy aye amonge in hir gardynes, Provydence did aye hir brydel lede.
- c1450(1438) GLeg.St.Nich.(GiL2)(Eg 876)59/8 : He yeldid vp the spirit…withe gret melodie of all heuenli spirites.
- c1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)1397 : He wente yn-to þe toun; Wyth fayr processioun Þat folk com hym agayn.
- a1500(c1400) St.Erk.(Hrl 2250)62 : Laddes laften hor werke and lepen þiderwardes, Ronnen radly in route wyt ryngande noyce.
- a1500(?c1400) Triam.(Cmb Ff.2.38)185 : Y trowed in hur no falsehedd Tyll y fonde them wyth the dede.
13c.
In adv. phrases expressing an attendant circumstance, condition, state, etc.: in (a form); also, in (pain, a state of pain, sorrow, joy, etc.); with (certain conditions obtaining); ~ assent, with (someone’s) assent; ~ ille, with injurious effect; ~ no ille, without injury; ~ litel, with small effect; ~ pride (nobleie, realte), with ceremony, pomp, or magnificence; also, with ostentation; ~ gret quantite, in great quantity; seien ~ answere, to say in answer.
Associated quotations
- a1300(c1250) Floris (Vit D.3)227 : An hundret teyse hit [tower] is wid, & imaked wiþ muchel pruid.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)1169 : With one haltre ope þe mere forth rod þis holi man.
- c1300 SLeg.Jas.(LdMisc 108)194 : Þis holi bodi huy bureden with grete pruyte.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2673 : Egipte folc…askeden here godes red; And hem seiden wið answeren Ðat on ebru cude hem wel weren.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)3548 : Himselue þe king Arthour Hem com oȝain wiþ gret honour…And anon ledde hem to halle.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1599 : Atte þe day set, wiþ solempne merþe, þis…genge…gunne ride.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Deeds 25.23 : Agrippa and Bernyce camen with moche…pryde of staat.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2610 : Out brest the blood with sterne stremes rede.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.1709 : Thus been they wedded with solempnitee.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)832/19 : Aȝeins þat perille gootes melk is best ydronke wiþ gret quantite.
- a1400(?a1350) Siege Troy(1) (Eg 2862)117/1483 : Ector sawȝ þat, with noon ille, Achilles he myȝt neuer com tylle.
- a1400 ME Verse in Anglia 92p.59 : Ylke loue ageyn godes lauue, uuyt soruue shal hyt cuuyne.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)1250 : Þe stedes rennen wiþ slake bridlen.
- c1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)575 : Pore men…Þaȝ þay com late…And þaȝ her sweng wyth lyttel atslykez, Þe merci of God is much þe more.
- c1400 Þyn heritage (Cmb Ii.3.8)p.75 : Þyn heritage ȝef þou wolt wynne, wyþt pyne and wo þou most bygynne.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)4078 : Theman dyed in that stede And beryed he was with mochel pride.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)4.657 : Who that list with ioie his staat assure, In a good mene he lengest shal endure.
- c1440(c1350) Octav.(1) (Thrn)153/1218 : Alle þoghe scho neuenede hym with ille, Full mekill was it þan hir wille Of hym to hafe a syghte.
- ?c1450 in Aungier Syon Mon.385 : Al schal go forthe mekly withe ther veyles down ouer ther eyn.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)572/15 : Kynge Arthure made sir Trystram a knyght of the Rounde Table wyth grete nobeley.
- a1500(?c1400) Triam.(Cmb Ff.2.38)651 : Who so euyr wynneth the gree Schall wedde hur wyth ryalte.
- a1500(?c1400) Triam.(Cmb Ff.2.38)848 : Than hath that lady gente Chosyn hym wyth comyns assente, To be hur gouernowre.
14a.
In phrases denoting agency: by (sb., God, a spirit, an animal, a personified abstraction, etc.), at the hands of, by the agency of.
Associated quotations
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)2415 : Ȝa mihhte ȝho…tæmenn hire tæm wiþþ himm.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Roy 17.A.27)63/547 : Ah þurh þe mon þet he wes ischrudd & ihudd wið, he…schrenchte þen alde deouel.
- c1300 SLeg.Inf.Chr.(LdMisc 108)p.44 : Here comen giwes to Josepe and to Marie and seide þat Jhc was a strangled and i ȝete with þe leouns.
- c1300 SLeg.Marg.(Hrl 2277)56 : Biset ic am wiþ liþere men.
- c1330 Iesu þat for vs (Auch)257 : Þo euensongtime was icome, Doun of þe rode he was inome Wiȝ Joseph and wiȝ oþer mo Of hise desiples.
- (1357) Gaytr.LFCatech.(Yk-Borth R.I.11)28/133 : He was traised with his disciple, and taken with Iues.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1060 : So wel was William biloved wiþ riche and wiþ pore.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2138 : Do him in hast be honged and wiþ horse todrawe.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2018 : Yet saugh I…The hunte strangled with the wilde beres.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.514 : Thei ben with the Monstres slawe.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.1819 : Whan the bed was with the preest yblessed, Out of the chambre hath euery wight hym dressed.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1347/23 : Larke eyren…beþ ofte…y-ete wiþ wormes.
- a1400(c1300) NHom.(1) Abp.& N.(Phys-E)p.92 : This bischop…no wist…noht Hougat this yong child spac him tille, Quethir wit god gast or wit ille.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)3442 : Sua lang he praid þat his praiyer Wel was herd wit drightin dere.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.5912 : Þe fend…toke Forme of a snake…And made þe tonge in hir hed to meve…So as he doth in hem þat be travailled, With wicked spirites vexid…To meve her tongis falsly oute to breke In-to blasfemye.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)4442 : They hadde gon…Nat in charys drawen forth with stedys.
- a1425 MChristi (Arun 286)68/2423 : Byþenke þe how many hundred…men and wymmen and children have ben deed…summe brende in þe fure and summe drenged in þe water, summe sleyne wiþ þefes.
- c1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)1430 : Therin was a ram…That hadde a fles of gold…But it was kept alwey with a dragoun.
- (1445) ?Bokenham Claudian CS (Add 11814)277/235 : Thise goddis…with foulys yive warnyng.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)5108 : Þyse Bretons þat were in-clos & byseged wiþ her fos, Had þey neyþer drynke ne mete.
- a1450(a1396) Hilton CPerf.(Paris angl.41)13 : If ȝe ben lad with þe spirit, ȝe ben not vndir þe lawe.
- c1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)209/9 : Gayus þe emperour…was slayn and eton with houndes.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)13097 : He was so sett with Satanas þat…þat cursed knaue hanged hym self.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)405/9 : His…head was fon in þe felde with a hurd-man.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)108/24 : Take furst vrine of a woman after þat sche hath conseywyd wyth man.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)555/34 : The knyght rode hys way…aftir sir Trystram as faste as he had be chaced with knyghtes.
- c1475 Lydg.Say.Nightingale (Hrl 2251)139 : This is he that was afore Pilate atteynt With false accusours in the consistorye.
- 1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)15/24 : Ther were many lordes wroth and saide it was grete shame unto them all…to be overgovernyd with a boye of no hyghe blood borne.
- a1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 3909)1576 : He endet his fasteng…so to desert was lad…And temptide with Sathan.
- a1500(c1465) SEChron.(Lamb 306:Everett)31 : The same yere the kynge comyng homard warde from Jerusalem was take wythe the Duke of Ostrych.
- a1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)100/12 : Who þat preisith othir mennys avise shal be preised with wele-avised men.
- a1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)45 : Jhesu heleth hem al hoole, ffor he cureth the deffe, the dombe…the blynde and suche as ben encombred wyth the deuyl.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)9 : Men…ben drepit with deth & þere day paste.
14b.
(a) By means of (sth., an act, a speech, etc.), by the use of (sth., a part of the body, a faculty, etc.), by the exercise of (power, force, witchcraft, one’s will, etc.), through the action of (a natural phenomenon, pestilence, etc.); with (sth.) as instrument, by;
(b) in misc. phrases: ~ fot, on foot, by foot; ~ hot and cold (neshe and hard), ~ hard…~ neshe, by all means, in every way; ~ menes of, by means of (sth.); ~ no-thing (nought), by no means; ~ skil, by argument [see also skil n. 5.(c)]; ~ strengthe, by force [see also strength(e n. 1.(f)]; ~ tonge, with (one’s) tongue, in words [see also tong(e n.(2) 2a.]; bien ~ blod, theol. of Christ: to redeem (sb., mankind) by (his) blood sacrifice on the cross; of saints: redeem (Rome) by (their) martyrdom; hepen ~, multiply (sth.) by (a number); liven ~ bodi, live by means of (one’s) body, prostitute oneself; sen ~ sighte(s, see with one’s own eyes; stonden wel ~, be thickened by (a substance); wenden ~ other wei, go by another way;
(c) in phrases with expressions of clothing, feeding, rewarding, serving, etc.: with (sth.), by; also in fig. contexts; ~ what, as noun: the means, the wherewithal; feden ~ tales, fig. to feed (sb.) on gossip; liven ~, live on (a food, sth. as a source of nourishment); liven ~ the wind, live on thin air; stonden ~, subsist on (a regimen of milk), stay with or on;
(d) with expressions of appeasing, contentment, pleasing, displeasing, etc.: with (sb. or sth., oneself); also, with inf. as obj.: quemen ~ to leten swingen him, to appease (God) by letting himself be scourged;
(e) with verbs of adorning, coloring, covering, smearing, trimming, etc.: with (sth., a material, substance, etc.); inlappen ~, to envelop (oneself) with (worldly concerns);
(f) with verbs of planting and sowing: with (vines, seed, salt, etc.); grouen ~, overgrown with (flowers); ben shadwed ~, to be shaded by (trees);
(g) with expressions of endowing, equipping, filling, loading, supplying, stuffing, etc.: with (personnel, equipment, sth. immaterial, etc.); with expressions of burdening: with (sth., a condition, etc.), by; chargen ~ [see also chargen v. 1.(a) & 2b.(b)]; flouen ~, fig. to flow with (milk and honey), abound in (good things); laden ~ [see also laden v. 1.(b)]; stuffen ~ [see also stuffen v.(1) 1.(a), 1.(b), 2.(a), 2.(b), & 2.(c)]; ben taken ~, be imbued with (flavor);
(h) with verbs of beginning and ending: with (sth. in a narration, an event, certain specified words in a text, etc.).
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- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)5524 : Strenncþe þatt ȝifeþþ lufe & lusst Þe bodiȝ forr to pinenn…wiþþ hunngerr, & wiþþ þrisst.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)12355 : Þærþurrh himm oferrcomm þe fend Wiþþ grediȝnessess wæpenn.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)41/446 : Iuliene…grap a great raketehe þet ha wes wið ibunden.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)30/203 : Ha wið hire anes mot meistreð us alle.
- a1275 *Body & S.(4) (Trin-C B.14.39)131 : Ne wiche ne walkirie vit hire uiche craft Ne mit binimen þen det, hir mitte and ir maite.
- a1275 Judas (Trin-C B.14.39)8 : Iudas, þou were wrþe me stende þe wid ston.
- a1275 Vid word (Trin-C B.14.39)1 : Vid word & wrid ic warne þe.
- (1258) Procl.Hen.III in PST (1868)21 : We senden ȝew þis writ open, iseined wiþ vre seel.
- a1275 Stod ho (Tan 169*)1-2 : Þat leueli leor wid spald ischent, þat feire fel wid s[cur]ges rend—Þe blod out stremed oueral.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)613 : Ut of his ðrote cumeð asmel mid his rem forð oueral ðat ouer cumeð haliweie wið swetnesse.
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)9/108 : Wiþ swerd oþer wiþ kniue We scholden alle deie.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)44 : Al was ðat firme ðhrosing in nigt, Til he wit hise word made ligt.
- a1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)260/383 : Þe dogge þo seinte Peter com…A uot he nolde fram him gon woder so he kende, So þat Symon aȝen him com and chidde wis [Hrl: mid þis] honde.
- c1350 Wyth what mastrie (Bod 26)1 : Wyth what mastrie He hat man ywrouht.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2699 : Hire foos for no cas wiþ fors hire conquerede.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)1967 : Þan do an-honge him wyþ þe berde.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.11.7 : What thing wenten ȝe out for to see in desert? whether a reede wawid with wynd?
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.243 : Naples was greved wiþ a pestilence.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.549 : Fyr is drawen out of flyntes with steel.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)1216 : Ȝyf þou destroblyst here testament…with powere or ȝyft, cunseyl or rede, Þou hast trespast.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)6391 : Moyses on þe roche kan stand, & smat it wit þis forsaid wand.
- c1400 Apoc.(2) (Hrl 171)26/18 : Goddis sone…wiþ his manhed hidde his godhede.
- c1400 Ioye and blisse (Cmb Ii.3.8)p.73 : Wytȝt mouthe, wytȝ herte we blesseit þe.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)150a/b : He [canker] schal not be touched wiþ none hote iren neiþer wiþ no colde iren neiþer wiþ no corrosiue medicyne…fforwhy þe more þat he is neiȝhed wiþ enye violent þinge, þe more þe malice of hym is aumented.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)9/12 : Þei whiche ben come to þe forseid staat of vnyoun ben liȝtned in þe iȝe of intellect by grace wiþ a liȝt aboue nature.
- a1450(1408) Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)64/7 : To þrowynge of stones boþe wiþ hond and eke wiþ slynges ȝong werriours moste ben vsed.
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)5866 : In to eland war þai kest with a flowyng flode.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)30/25 : With the helpe of sir Kay and of sir Gryfflet they helde thes six kyngis harde.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)530/10 : The forsaid Adam shold susteyn the said mese…with his owne costis.
- a1475 Rev.St.Bridget (Gar 145)58/13 : They mote cleve…as the glewe whyt the which the shippe of Noe was glued.
- ?a1475 Banester Guiscardo (Add 12524)530 : Thus he wende to haue esyd hyr off hyr bande Vith his comforth, but deth was at the hande.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)72/27 : Whith ȝour speche…I am wel payd.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)149/93 : We xul be vn-bownde with þi blody woundys and werkys full wyse.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)78b/b : If þat he be costif, he schal be maad laxatif or wiþ suppositorijs or wiþ clisterie.
- c1425(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)70 : Weþ þe lefe or conferming of þe kirk, swilk mariage is rate.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)89.18 : Loke we [vr. with the] eghe of blithed in thi seruaunts.
- a1500(c1465) SEChron.(Lamb 306:Everett)65 : In this yere was…Poules stepyll sett on fire with lyghtnynge.
- a1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)50/30 : Heliodorus also, which cam to robbe Goddis temple, was smetyn with Goddis punycion afore all the people.
- a1500 Form OMatrim.(Add 30506)5 : With þis ryng I þe wedde.
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)63/71 : If thou wolt algates with superfluite of riches be a-throted, thou shalt hastelich be anoyed.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)1924 : His fader vs forset with his fowle wille, Did…harme to our hede Rewmes.
b
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)3734 : Mann mihht himm fon & pinenn Wiþþ hat & kald, wiþþ nesshe & harrd.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)4331 : All þiss þrinne taless hæp Iss hæpedd aȝȝ wiþþ ehhte.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)6497 : Drihhtin…radde hemm þatt teȝȝ sholldenn ham Wiþþ oþerr weȝȝe wendenn.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Roy 17.A.27)79/693 : Ful wel ichulle þet tu hit wite, ne mahtu, wið na þing [Bod: nawhit], wenden min heorte from him þet ich heie.
- c1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)669 : Wil ȝe mi fader se Wiþ siȝt?
- c1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.40 : Þou was sleyn & haste bouȝth vs aȝein wiþ þi blood vnto goddes werk.
- c1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.158 : Þe grete lordes of þe werlde taken wiþ strengþe þere þat þei shulden nouȝth taken.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2083 : God…wiþ his blod bouȝt me on þe rode.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.213 : Tostius…welded so þe pope wiþ skilles þat he alleide þat þe pope ȝaf Aldredus þe archebisshopriche.
- c1390(?a1300) Stations Rome(1) (Vrn)14 : Heþene hit [Rome] was…Til petur and poul hit hedde I-bouȝt…with heore blode.
- a1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)18570 : Þei seide as þei sey wiþ siȝtes.
- c1400(1375) Canticum Creat.(Trin-O 57)1092 : Þeȝ…maden a bem to þe cherche Of lengþe þretty cubitis & on…Þo toke þeȝ it wiþ strengthe And…In þe cherche þeȝ it layd.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)55b/b : Repento [?read: Repeto]…go wyþþe fot.
- a1425 NHom.(3) Leg.Suppl.Hrl.(Hrl 4196)45/29 : Thritty days þai did þaire might…Sum tyme with hard, sum tyme with nesch, To mak hir to defoul hir flesch.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)53/29 : God bihoteþ to do mercy to þe world & to holy chirche wiþ menys of prayer and of penaunce.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)8/7 : Sche was bowndyn & kept wyth strength boþe day & nygth þat sche mygth not haue hir wylle.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)88 : Take a litull Saundres and caste there-to in the boylyng, And loke that hit stonde well with Gynger, Sugur.
- a1450 Seynt Nicholas was (Sln 2593)p.218 : Ye must with yowre body leue.
- a1500 St.Brendan Conf.(Cmb Hh.1.12)46/252 : Wt my tunge I haue…mysspokyn.
c
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)384/256 : To þis holie Man huy brouȝten…cloþingue…For-to cloþi him ase an heiȝh kyng, and crouni him with golde.
- a1350 Horn (Hrl 2253)86/1486 : Hue gurden huem wiþ suerde.
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)p.192 : Make my [read: þy] seruauntes to be rewarded wyþ glorie euerlastand.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)53 : Ofsaw he…þat…child…cloþed ful komly…wiþ perrey and pellure pertelyche to þe riȝttes.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1421 : Wiþ deynteþes were þei served.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1932 : Þe…emperours…hem greiþed wiþ alle worþi wedes.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Is.22.18 : He shal crowne þee with tribulacioun.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mark 1.6 : John was clothid with heeris of camelis.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1027 : Hom he ryt anoon, With laurer crowned as a conquerour.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.749 : He serued vs with vitaille at the beste.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)11109-10 : Ion…liued wit rotes and wit gress, Wit honi o þe wildernes.
- a1400 Ancr.(Pep 2498)60/24 : Whan Moyses ledde þe folk out of Egipte in to wildernesse, god fedde hym wiþ Manna.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)16.125 : I haue…fedde ȝow with fisshes and with fyue loues.
- c1400 Apoc.(2) (Hrl 1203)51/17 : Wiþ what [Hrl 171: we haue where wiþ to be fed].
- a1425(a1400) Paul.Epist.(Corp-C 32)Heb.2.7 : With glorye and worschype þou hast corownyd hym.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)112a/b : Mylke is of more convenient thingz…And if he myȝt stonde wiþ it alone, it war gode.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)18/19-20 : Sche besyde hir to take þe chyld to hir & kepe it…wyth good mete & drynke, wyth fayr whyte clothys & whyte kerchys.
- c1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)111/18 : A worþier knyȝt was nevir girde wiþ [vr. whyth] swerde.
- a1450(a1400) Medit.Pass.(2) (Add 11307)561 : Þey dedon þe wrong…To corone the with bitter brere.
- a1450 Aelred Inst.(2) (Bod 423)1/30 : Tofore the wyndowe shal sitte an olde womman fedynge hir with tales.
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)54 : Þe Castel of Perseuerauns wanne Mankynde hath tan, Wel armyd wyth vertus.
- ?a1425 My dere sone wher (Lamb 491)91 : Whan ȝour houndis…have don her [hare] to deþe, The hunter shal rewarde his houndis with þe heed.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)62 : The glooves thou shalt take with which thou shalt glooven thin hondes.
- c1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)156/3 : He rewardith þe chastite of wedehode with sixtifold frute.
- c1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)189/8 : We may nat lyue oonly with the wynde.
- 1486 ?Berners Bk.St.Albans (Blades 1881)leaf b iiii/a : If she will forsake the fowle…and com…rewarde yowre hawke with the Brayne and the necke.
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)239/15 : A good holy man…sygh a gret company of men stondyng al [c]lade wyth white.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)246/21 : When that he was an infawnte and lyued with the pappus of his modur, he wold noȝt towche hem but ones in two dayes of the weke.
d
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)6362 : Himm birrþ ȝeornenn aȝȝ þatt an, Hiȝȝ Drihhtin wel to cwemenn Wiþþ…messess & wiþþ beness, & wiþþ to letenn swingenn himm Þe bodig swa to pinenn.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Gen.32.20 : I schall plesen hym with ȝiftez.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Luke 3.14 : Be ȝe apaid with ȝoure soudis.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)8.149 : Þe pepil was i-plesed wiþ his faire speche.
- c1400 Apoc.(2) (Hrl 171)51/18 : If we haue where wiþ to be fed & keuerid, be we paied wiþ þat.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.1891 : Þei be nat content with vnite; Þei pursue ay for pluralite.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)5628 : He wole be Contente with his pouerte, Withoute nede of ony man.
- (1427) RParl.4.327a : We Lordes…pray…and require you to contente you with the pouoir abovesaid.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)199 : To the crosse…men…preien…that he schulde…make Crist plesid with hem which henge in him.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)15.445 : We so with Cristes passioun enspired were That Al his deth forgoten we there.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)3865 : With litel food content is nature.
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)prol.69 : Prey god…Enspyre ovre wyttis wyth his prevy grace.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)106/13 : He was bot litle displeased with his deth.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)44/21 : God ys displesed with you.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.Guy (LdMisc 683)197 : Content with lytel…In wordly pompe he lyst not to soiourne.
- a1500(a1450) Gener.(2) (Trin-C O.5.2)2221 : With tho wordes the kyng liked full ill.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)22 : I coniure the…that thow haue no power…to make me do soche thynge that god sholde with be displesed.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)33/1 : He is not quemed wiþ ȝiftes.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)4649 : Diana…Be ho plesid with prayers…This tempest will turne into tyme faire.
e
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)994 : Þatt follkes lac wass…bule & lamb…bulltedd bræd…smeredd wel wiþþ elesæw.
- a1275 *Body & S.(4) (Trin-C B.14.39)107 : Cumet into þe halle, wit bisse it is grad.
- a1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)7 : Wiþ a pound of oynement ȝeo smerede his ffet.
- a1325 Add.46919 Cook.Recipes (Add 46919)58.63/7 : Do þerto comin & peoper & poudre of speces & colure wiþ saffre.
- ?1316 SMChron.(Roy 12.C.12)624 : The bridles were, for the nones, Bygo with preciouse stones.
- 1381 Dc.257 Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)63.8/4 : Coloure it wiþ safroun & salt it & serue it forth.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))2 Tim.2.4 : No man holdinge knyȝthod to God, inwlappith him silf with worldli nedis.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.139 : Þe emperour…hiȝted þat citee with buldynges, fayre housynge, and chirches.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.366-7 : Hir knyues were chaped noght with bras But al with siluer wroght ful clene and wel.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.764 : In an erthen pot how put is al…And wel ycouered with a lampe of glas.
- a1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)9913 : Þis castel is…Peynted on þe vtter side wiþ þre colouris of diuerse hew.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)202 : Al þe cite was byhonge Wiþ riche samytes and pelles longe.
- (1415) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 (Lamb 69)48 : Item, a helyng of whit frise lyned with blanket.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)1076 : It ful well With Orfrays leyd was euerydeell.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)137/13 : Be þe eyȝe plastred wiþ a plastre of malue leues.
- (1429) Will York in Sur.Soc.4420 : A russet cloke, lynd wt care, aboute ye schuldyrs.
- c1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)259 : Al hys halles I wol do peynte with pure gold.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)1536 : Saudid full of safirs & oþire sere gemmes And poudird with perry was perrour & othire.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)23/5 : They were in a place covirde with clothys of golde lyke unto an halle.
- a1475 Siege Troy(1) (Hrl 525)168/157a : There were sheldis gylt and leyd wyth ynde.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)33/156 : With þis gresse I xal hym hylle.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)96b/a : Y anoyntide þe nolle of his heed…and alle þe spondilis of his necke wiþ þe same oile.
- c1475 Court Sap.(Trin-C R.3.21)1851 : Her parlour…Wyth sophyms full depeyntyd was aboute.
- a1500(c1400) St.Erk.(Hrl 2250)78 : Al wyt glisnande golde his gowne wos hemmyd.
f
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Judg.11.33 : He smot fro Aroer for to þat þou come…vn to Abel, þat is wiþ vynes sett [WB(2): set aboute].
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.607 : His wonyng was ful faire vpon an heeth; With grene trees shadwed was his place.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)4.1837 : With gret salt the lond he siew.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Eccl.2.5 : Y made ȝerdis and orcherdis and Y settide [WB(1): plauntide] tho with the trees of al kynde.
- (1445) ?Bokenham Claudian CS (Add 11814)277/219 : Histirlonde he plantith with vyne.
- a1450(1408) Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)127/2 : Suche place þat is…mory and set oþer growen with schrubbis or trees is better þan playn feeld.
- a1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)1291 : Whan þe temple was ouertourned, Tytus commaundys In plowes to putte & alle þe place erye, Suþ sow hit with salt.
- c1450(?a1400) Parl.3 Ages (Add 31042)8 : There the gryse was grene, growen with floures.
- a1500 Henley Husb.(Sln 686)48 : Put ovte all soyche clay londis & stony londis as ye purpose to sowe withe lynten seede.
- c1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)1023 : Sensualyte…sewe the felde with hys vnkynde seede.
g
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)ded.60 : Icc ne mihhte nohht min ferrs Aȝȝ wiþþ Goddspelless wordess Wel fillenn all.
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)67/1153 : Heo fulde hire horn wiþ wyn.
- c1300 SLeg.Nich.(LdMisc 108)52 : He conseilede is oþur douȝter…With gret nobleie and fayr bruydale.
- a1350 Ase y me rod (Hrl 2253)41 : Þe þridde ioie…when þe kynges…presente hyre sone wiþ myrre, gold, ant encenz.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1083 : His sondes…het hem alle hiȝe þider…wel warniched for þe werre wiþ clene hors and armes.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Hab.2.16 : He is fulfillid [WB(2): fillid] with yuel fame for glorie.
- a1400(c1300) NHom.(1) Gosp.(Phys-E)p.135 : For schip fletes on the flode, And hali kirc…Fletes abouen this werldes se Flouand wit sin and caytifte.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ex.3.8 : Y knew the sorewe of the puple, and Y cam down to delyuere it fro the hondis of Egipcians and lede out of that lond…into a lond that flowith with mi[l]k and hony.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)117 : Eson was…lad with elde.
- (?a1430) Hoccl.BV(1) (Hnt HM 111)17 : My soule is stuffid…with stynk of synne.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)40/17 : Sche was…indued wyth grace of þe Holy Gost.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Hrl 1766)9.3311 : I, nat expert nor stuffyd with language, Seyn howh that Ynglyssh in ryme hath skarsete.
- (1440) Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)55 : It is no vylony to men…Whech be endewid witȝ possession temporal.
- c1440 Bonav.Medit.(3) (Thrn)205 : His sorowfull modire…sawe hir childe…chargede with þis hevy birdene [cross].
- (1449) RParl.5.147b : Furnysshed with all manere abillements of werre.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)2097 : Ageyn Lokeryn þey gon hem atyre Wyþ gret host out of mesure.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)48.362 : Fulfylled they were with Alle Manere of Mete.
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)54 : Þei regned but litil tyme and þerfor þe writeres charged not her bokes with them.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)134/14 : Sume had stree hattes…and sume had hoodes stuffed with hay.
- c1470 Bible F.(Cleve-W q091.92-C468)80/18 : The Iuwes had stuffid alle thees olyvauntis, dromadories, and camellis with men, with vitaill and al maner habilementis for the werre.
- c1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)233/9 : Many…wold suffre to be…laden with the burdon of the werre.
- c1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)219 : Wat soule wyll gret mede recure, He must grett wyll haue, in thought or dede, Wertuusly sett wyth consyens pure.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)25/85 : Full low ligis he In erth hymself to stuf with syn.
- a1475 Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)653 : Fille þat potte with water clere.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.181 : For what sauour a newe shell is taken with, When it is olde it tasteth of the same.
h
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.2414 : My behest with deth I schal conclude.
- (1455) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15145 : In primis, the best Mas boke, begynnyng with the Kalender and endyng with the general prayer.
- (1455) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15147 : Item, the best Manuel that begynneth with thes wordes: ‘Secundum Marcum’…and endeth with this psalme: ‘Voce mea ad Dominum clamavi.’
- (1455) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15149 : Item, one old lytyl mass boke un binded, begynnyng with the Office ‘Benedicta sit Sancta Trinitas’…and endeth with this pystyl: ‘Ecce sacerdos magnus,’ [etc.].
- c1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)162 : Than may I sey thus and begynne Wyth fyve prudent vyrgyns of my reme: Thow be þe fyve wyttys of my sowll.
- a1500(c1400) St.Erk.(Hrl 2250)133 : Þe masse he begynnes…Wyt ‘queme questis’ of þe quere wyt ful quaynt notes.
14c.
Because of (sth., circumstances, a state or condition, an action, etc.), on account of, as a result of, by reason of, owing to [occas. difficult to distinguish from sense 14b.(a)]; ~ chaunce, by chance, accidentally; ~ (no) skil, for that (no) reason; what ~, in consequence of (sth.), what with.
Associated quotations
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)5673 : Nu wepeþþ Godes þeoww for þa Þatt wepenn her wiþþ sinne.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)7/20 : For hire he [Adam] ðolede deað…and ðe pine of helle ma ðanne fif ðusend wintre, al hwat Crist him liesde wið hersumnesse.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)10/21 : Þe sowle is widewe þe haueð forloren hire spus, þet is, iesu crist, wið eni heaued sunne.
- a1275 *Body & S.(4) (Trin-C B.14.39)83 : Þe casteles sulen dun þrouen, and þise heye tures, þe wode into þe depe mores vit þise harde fures.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1229 : Wið swinc and hete hem wex on ðrist; Ðe water sleckede ðe childes list.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)7847 : Þair gilt pensel wiþ þe winde Mirie ratled.
- c1350 How GWife(1) (Em 106)166/108 : Mikel schame beo hem wourth…Þat maket here lordes pouere with here michele pride.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Tob.3.18 : An husbonde…with þi drede, not with my lust, I consentide to takyn.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3829 : This man…aswowne lay bothe pale and wan, For with the fal he brosten hadde his arm.
- (a1392) Clanvowe 2 Ways (UC 97)63/268 : Þouȝ þat God is mercyable and good, þat shulde not with skyle maaken vs þe booldere to synnen.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)11172 : Synne þou wystest þat þey shulde noȝt with no skyl togedyr be broȝt.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)6771 : If mi aght be stolen, wit chaunce, þou sal me mak restauraunce.
- a1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)1058 : Caym was þe feindes fode, was neuer wers of moder born; For-þi was he witt þat for lorn.
- a1425(?c1350) Ywain (Glb E.9)1398 : Þe castel and þe cete rang With mynstralsi and nobil sang.
- ?a1425(?a1350) Castleford Chron.(Göt Hist 740)21716 : Wȝ [read: Wiȝ] chance…þai and we be mette.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)178/27 : Þer was a prestis lemman, & hur irkid so with hur syn at sho hangid hur selfe.
- c1450 *Bk.Marchalsi (Hrl 6398)5b : He is many tyme greuyd…with mys-kepyng.
- a1456 Marmaduke SSecr.(Ashm 59)203/16 : Þe whiche boke, with þe content, is nouȝt to shewe to comvne, ne to rede to every man opunly.
- (1476) Paston1.493 : I ame some-whatt crased, what wyth the see and what wythe thys dyet heere.
- a1500(?c1400) Triam.(Cmb Ff.2.38)1014 : Yf hyt so betyde That the knyght of owre syde May sle yowrys wyth chawnce, He preyeth yow that ye wyll cese And let owre londys be in pees.
15.
In misc. phrases: (a) what ~, what with (one faction and another, one thing and another, etc.), in view of, in consideration of, considering; also, by (one means and another);
(b) ~ worshipe of, in honor of (sth.);
(c) ~ the grace of god (help of jesu), ~ goddes grace, by God’s (Jesus’) help; also, with diminished force, as an expression of pious hope: if God wills it, God willing; ~ oure lord merci, by the mercy of God, pray God’s mercy;
(d) ~ leve, as polite expression: by (someone’s) leave, with (someone’s) permission, if (sb.) pleases.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.168 : Now has kyng R. of Cipres þe seignorie, What with nesshe & hard wonne þe maistrie.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.574 : Many geant, what with myȝt & sleiȝte, He outraide, for al her lymes rude.
- (c1438) MKempe B (Add 61823)234/39 : Þus what wyth wel & wyth woo, thorw þe help of owr Lord sche was browt to Wilsnak.
- c1475 Body Pol.(Cmb Kk.1.5)156/16 : He toke his hoste and…distroyed all the lowe contre, what with swerde and fyre [F par feu et par fer], excepte the londe and maners of the dictatour Fabius Maximus.
- a1500 Chartier Quad.(2) (Rwl A.338)182/33 : We haue sought dyvision amongist owrself…we have don so moche, what with one partie and ane othir, that we haue put…owr…lorde into the handis of his mortale enemyes.
b
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1960 : Þe p[ope]…was purveyd…richeli revested þat reaute to holde, wiþ worchep of þat wedding þat þei wende have.
c
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.2172 : Youre doghter, with the grace of god, shal warisshe and escape.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.243 : And with the grace of God…I shal yow nevere offende.
- (1435-6) Doc.in HMC Var.Col.4199 : Yt was in th’enemyes handes…to caste this land oute of alle reputacion into perpetual reprofe, vylonye, and shame…as, with oure Lord mercy, it never shal falle.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)232/11 : He schal be hole with þe grace of god.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)111/3 : Take þe jus of sawge…and do it in hys mowth, and he schall spekyn, with þe grace of God.
- (1470) Stonor1.116 : We wol…represse þeir fals and traiteroux purpose and entent with Goddes grace.
- (1472) Grant Arms in Antiq.49289 : They shal mowe wt goddis grace to atteigne unto honoure and worship.
- a1605(1450) Procl.Cade in Camd.n.s.28 (Lamb 306)96 : They shall be fond the kynges trew legemen and best frendys with the helpe of Jesu.
d
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)5107 : Acc mare þe þann oþre menn Þu lufenn mihht wiþþ lefe.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)7719 : Sir…wit þe leue o yow, I wil him sla.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)3.230 : There aren two manere of Medes, my lorde, with ȝowre leue.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)347 : Lorde, wyth þy leve…Al is wroȝt.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)971 : Wyth leve laȝt of þe lorde, he went hem aȝaynes.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)1012 : Lord, with ȝoure leue we lawe ȝow be-sechis.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)69/142 : A lord! pardon me, Wyth thy lefe, that lynage luffis me noght.
16.
Out of (a material), of, from; founden ~, to build (a city) out of (stone); maken ~, manufacture (clay) from (materials), build (walls) of (gold).
Associated quotations
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.812 : Ther is…many another thyng…vn to oure craft apertenyng…Cley maad with hors or mannes heer and oyle Of tartre, alum, [etc.].
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.548 : Þe werkmen gan þis cite for to founde Ful myȝtely with stonys square & rounde.
- c1450 Leeds Mir.Virg.(Leeds 501)220/25 : Hym thoght the wallys were made of bryght crystall and syluyr and wyth golde.
- (1459) Will York in Sur.Soc.30236 : j shete wit white silke, j towell de playn cloith.
17.
In accordance with (God’s law, someone’s wishes, etc.).
Associated quotations
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)1990 : Forrþi wass ȝho till Josæp Wiþþ Godess laȝhe weddedd.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)10564 : Þe fir off helle…muȝhe lasstenn a…To bærnenn & to pinenn A butenn ende all wiþþ rihht dom All deofle follc.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)128/31 : This mervaylle is aȝenst kynde & not with kynde.
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)389/297 : Þai were here with my wille And so schall þei fourthe wende.
- a1475 Limn.Bks.(Brog 2.1)72 : Who so kane wyesly considere the nature of his colours and kyndely make his commixtions with naturalle proporcions…he schalle make curius colourys.
- (a1500) Doc.in Burton Hemingbrough390 : Scho examynd on a boke be for ye stewarde & v sworn men yt it was wt hir will & noght agaynes hir will.
18.
In exchange for (sth.), in return for, for [sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 14b.(a)]; ~ the, in return for that.
Associated quotations
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1100 : Ealle he hi oððe wið feo gesealde oððe on his agenre hand heold.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)30/22 : Þe laford het þa lædon ðone þæȝen mid wifum…& syllæn wið feo.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)84/593 : For wið swucche þu schalt buggen ant biȝeote…þe endelease blissen.
- a1325 SLeg.Magd.(1) (Corp-C 145)132 : Þou ne sselt noȝt fram me wende Þat inelle þe siwy uot wiþ uot.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)6812 : Þe first o scep and kou, þe barn þat yee til offrand bring, Bes boght a-gain wit oþer thing.
- a1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)3239 (1st occurrence) : What shal I do, þis ilke mayde if þat sho Wiþ no catel com wiþ me?
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)4.50 : He souȝte To make his pes with his panis & profride hym manye.
- c1440(c1350) Octav.(1) (Thrn)125/728 : I will with none oþir fyghte, Thi heuede I hafe my leman highte; Scho salle me kysse with thi.
- a1450(a1400) Titus & V.(Add 36523)3684 : I wene þei casten to maken gree, If þei mowe, with any fee.
- c1600(?c1395) PPl.Creed (Trin-C R.3.15)360 : Þey [Dominicans] biggeþ hem bichopryches wiþ bagges of golde.
19.
In phrase: ~ than, in spite of that.
Associated quotations
- c1330(?c1300) Bevis (Auch)53/1105 : Ȝet wiþ [vr. nouȝt for] þan Ichauede þe leuer to me lemman, Þe bodi in þe scherte naked, Þan al þe gold þat Crist haþ maked.
20.
Subject to (a condition); on (condition that sb. do sth.).
Associated quotations
- (1415) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 (Lamb 69)49 : Y wil and ordeyne þat John Cheyne my sone and eir have þe short armyn swerd…a bible in Frenssh…a sauter yglosid of Richard Hampoll ermyte, and a cop…with the condicion þat…he fynde sufficiant suerte, er hit be delivered to hym, þat, if he die withoute eir male, þat forsaid swerd, bible, sauter, and copp turne to my next heir malis þat beren þe surname of Cheyne.
- (1443) Proc.Privy C.5.227 : The Kyng graunted…þat þei by þeim & þeire servantz may bye wolles hydes…with a proviso þat þei shippe non oþer wolles.
- (1444) Will Daubeney in Som.RS 19341 : I wol that William my sone have…al myn armour and ij of my beste horsse and goddis blessing and myn wt a condicion that he lette not my last will.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)203 : We be come to serue yow, with this condicion, that ye desire not to knowe oure names.
21a.
In conjunctive phrases introducing subordinate clauses: (a) ~ than the, ~ that (if, ~ that the, in case that, if;
(b) ~ so (that, ~ than, ~ than that (the), ~ that (that, ~ the (that, ~ the nones (that, provided that, on condition that, so long as; ~ than on that, provided only that; ~ this (that, on this condition (that, provided (that;
(c) ~ than that, so that, in order that; ~ that…ne, so that…not, lest.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)33/18 : Wið þan þe man blod up welle þur his muð, ȝenim þeos wyrt.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)39/10 : Eft wyd þæt [OE þon] þe man on wamba forwexen si, seoð þane [we]ȝebrade swiðe & ete swiðe.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)67/7 : Wið þæt ȝif hwa mid cyle ȝeweht si [L Ad frigore exustos], nime þas ylcan wirt.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)175/7 : Wið þæt man blod & wyrms ȝemang hracce [L Ad eos qui sanguinem reiciunt], ȝenim þisse wyrte iiii peneȝa ȝewihte sædis & cyrnlu of pintreowenum hnutum, [etc.].
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)189/10 : Wið þæt man ne maȝen miȝam, nim þisse wyrt wurtruman…heo þanne miggan þon astireþ.
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)11/8 : De capitis purgatione: Wið þat þæ mannes heafod clæppitað and to ealre þare clansunȝe þas heafodes.
b
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)151 : He [Christ] bi-het hom muche mede wið þan þet heo walde þis fecht underfon.
- a1225(?c1175) PMor.(Lamb 487)152 : Eure he walde her inne wawe…wunien, Wið þet þe mihte helle pine bi-flien and bi-sunien.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)13/122 : [A]ffrican…seide hire sikerliche þet ne schulde ha lihtliche wilni na wunne þet ha ne schulde wealden wið þenan þet [Roy: wið þat] ha walde hire wil wenden.
- a1250 Orison Lord (Lamb 487)185 : Þu…bihastest us wiþ þon þet we neomen hit heouenliche blissen.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)2389 : Her-to him wolden finden ȝisel of his gilde wih þon þe he lette sckere hine & his ifere.
- a1300 PMor.(Jes-O 29)160 : Eure he wolde in bonen beon…Wiþ þat he myhte to heouene cumen.
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)532 : I…shal maken þe fre…With-þan þu wilt þis child take, [etc.].
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2019 (1st occurrence) : Ghe bed him gold and agte…Wið ðhan ðat he wið here wile.
- c1330(?c1300) Bevis (Auch)160/3424 : Þin hure i schel þe ȝilde wel, Wiþ þat þow bringe him to me castel.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)3161 : Pleyn power I þe graunt…wiþ þatow winne al my worchip as I ere walt.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.86 : At ȝour jugement I will stand & do With þi þat it be ent þe strif bituen vs tuo.
- c1400 PLove (Hrl 2254)42/10 : He hungreth…for to displese all louerys of þe worlde with-þat þat god were plesid.
- c1410(c1350) Gamelyn (Hrl 7334)206 : I wold ȝeue ten pound by Iesu Crist, and more, Wiþ þe nones i fand a man to handil him sore!
- a1425 Celestine (LdMisc 463)72 : I wile becom þi knaue, wiþ þat I mykel wisdom haue.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)52/12 : All þir…salle I giffe þe, with þi þou will falle doun and adoure me.
- c1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)1540 : I hadde yive My blod and flesh…With the nones that he hadde owher a wif.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)8997 : Y schal gyue þe A þousand pound…Wyþy þy word be certayn To sey me when þou hast hym slayne.
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)441 : And þou I be fals, I ne recke, Wyth so þat I be lordlyche.
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)1603 : Wiþ so þou ȝelde agayn my tresore, I schal þe loue ffor eueremore.
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)2099 : I wol ensuren the, Wyth the nones that thou wolt do so, That I shal never fro the go.
- c1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)3972 : To-morow I woll be redy, his hest to fulfill, With this I have save condit, I may com hym till.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)139/27 (2nd occurrence) : Yet had I lever fyght with a knyght than to dey in preson; Wyth this…I may be delyverde and all thes presoners, I woll do the batayle.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)702/9 (1st occurrence : This entirpryse I gyff hit you, wyth this that ye be with me at this turnemente.
- (1473) Paston1.470 : I wolde he had it for vij yeere, wyth thys that my moodre be agreable to þe same.
- a1500 Partenay (Trin-C R.3.17)1886 : Of vs shal he haue A quite-clayme fully, With-that he Amend that he hath misdo.
c
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)53/1 : Wið þæt beon ne atfleon [L Ne apes examinent vel ne effugiant], hoh hi to þare hufe.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)225/2 : Wið þæt þu cule ne þolie, nim þeos wyrt on ele ȝesodene, smure þarmid þa hunda oþþer eal þana lichama; ne onȝyst þu cule on ealle þine lichama.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)3/7 : Alle leawede men þe understonden ne mahen latines ledene…lusteð þe liflade of a meiden þet is of latin iturnd to englische leode wið þon þet teos hali leafdi in heouene luuie us þe mare.
21b.
With inf. phrase as obj. (with inf. preceded by to), rendering L ad plus the gerundive and expressing purpose: ~ wormes to aquellen, etc., in order to kill worms, etc.
Associated quotations
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)77/7 : Wið fæstne innoþ to astyrȝenne [L Ad alveum concitandum] min [read: nim] seaw þisse wyrte, syle drincen…hit afermaþ wundorlice þane innoð.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.MQuad.(Hrl 6258B)241/18 : Wið wyrmas to acwellan [L Ad lumbricos necandos], hortes horn ȝebernede drinc on haten watere; þa wurmas he acwellaþ.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.MQuad.(Hrl 6258B)271/2 : Wyþ ȝehwilce wommas of lichama onweȝ to nimen [L Ad maculas tollendas], ȝenim ylpenban mid huniȝe ȝecnucod & to ȝeled; wunderlice hit þa womas of ȝenimeþ.
22.
In imprecatory and exclamatory phrases, freq. used as expletives: ~ hard grace (misaventure, sorwe), ~ (a) mischaunce, confound it (you, him, etc.), alas, curses, with good riddance [see also mischaunce n. 1.(d), sorwe n. 5.(d)].
Associated quotations
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)19/326 : Hennes þu go, þu fule þeof…Went vt of my bur Wiþ muchel mesauentur.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Co.(Manly-Rickert)A.4412 : His maister…bad hym go with sorwe and with meschaunce.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mcp.(Manly-Rickert)H.11 : Is that a cook of Londoun, with meschaunce?
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Fri.(Manly-Rickert)D.1334 : Pees, with myschaunce and with mysauenture…lat hym telle his tale!
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Sum.(Manly-Rickert)D.2228 : ‘Lo sires,’ quod the lord, ‘with harde grace, Who euere herde of swich a thyng er now?’
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.1852 : And cherles eke, with sorwe & meschaunce, In euery lond shal lordis ben allone.
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)6127 : Þe Sarazynes, wiþ mysauentoure, Fledde into þe heyeste toure.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)426 : Alasse, alasse…Alac, alac…cum hethere wyth sorowe!
- a1500(?a1400) Firumb.(2) (Fil)985 : Now lete we be thys sarsin, wyth maysauntour, And speke we of oure knyȝthes, that god hem socour!
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)239/352 : Why must he sytt soft, with a mekill myschaunce, That has tenyd vs thus oft?
23.
Introducing a specific set of words used as a refrain, cry, tag, etc.: with (certain specified words).
Associated quotations
- 1372 In bedlem is (Adv 18.7.21)36 : ‘Gloria in excelsis deo…& in terra,’ þei songen al so, With ‘pax hominibus.’
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Rv.(Manly-Rickert)A.4101 : Thise sely clerkes rennen vp and doun, With ‘keep, keep, stand, stand, Iossa, warderere!’
- a1400 Of thes frer mynours (Cleo B.2)5 : With an O & an I, þai praysen not seynt poule.
- a1450 Rich.(Cai 175/96:Weber)2522 : They rowede hard, and sungge ther too, With ‘heuelow and rumbeloo.’
- c1450(?a1400) Parl.3 Ages (Add 31042)223 : With hoo and howghe to the heron þay hitten hym full ofte.
- ?a1475 LDirige(2) (Dc 322)96 : Nowe yeue me mercy, and say nat nay, Wyth ‘Parce michi, domine.’
24.
Gram. The preposition ‘with’.
Associated quotations
- 1416 PRO Accedence (PRO)51/4 : ‘Yn’, ‘by’, ‘wyt’, ‘dorwe’ and ‘fro’ schal cerue to ablatyf case.
- c1450 Trin-C.Accedence (Trin-C O.5.4)35/155 : How knowyste the ablatyf case? By my sygnes ‘than’ and ‘by’, ‘wyth’, ‘in’ and ‘of’, ‘thorw’, ‘fro’, and ‘vnder’ and ‘for’.
- a1500 Add.37075 Accedence (Add 37075)46/61 : ‘In’, ‘wt’, ‘throw’, ‘for’, or ‘froo’, ‘þan’, and ‘by’ aftyr a comparatyff degree, be the signes of the ablatyff case.
25.
In surnames.
Associated quotations
- (1279) Nickname in LuSE 55197 : Will. Wythemantel.
- (1297) Nickname in LuSE 55198 : Rob. Wychthe Berd.
- (1316) Nickname in LuSE 55197 : Ric. Wytefot; Ric. Wytthehogges; Ric. Wyttehoundes.
- (1327) Nickname in LuSE 55192 : Rob. Withe Heued.
- (1338) Nickname in LuSE 55192 : Ad. With the Botoun.
- (1377-80) Nickname in LuSE 55192 : Patr. Withnose.
- -?-(1272) Reg.Freemen York in Sur.Soc.961 : Robertus Witheskirtes.