Middle English Dictionary Entry
with-al prep.
Entry Info
Forms | with-al prep. |
Etymology | From with-al adv. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Used only postpositively, usu. at the end of a rel. clause or an inf. phrase having the force of a rel. clause: (a) against (sb.), in opposition to; debaten (fighten, haven ado, etc.) ~;
(b) in company with (sb.), in association with, together with; holden ~, to hold with (sb.), take sides with; presenten ~, compound (an elixir) with (a liquid);
(c) by the agency of (sb. or sth.), by means of, by; ben served ~, to be served with (silver vessels).
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)62/25 : Vnder þat chirche…weren entered…martires…þat the lyoun mette withall.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)104/11 : Uncouth men ye sholde debate withall, and no brothir with brothir.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)147/7 : This knyght that I have foughten withall is the moste man of prouesse and of worship in the worlde.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)266/15 : Thou art the byggyst man that ever I mette withall, and the beste-brethed.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)517/22 : There ys no knyght…that I had levir have ado withall.
b
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)6374 : Bot tel yow of his suinc i sall; He drou þat fraward folk witall.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)11165 : Þe child þat sco gas nu wit-al [Göt: wid-alle], His nam þan sal man iesus call.
- c1440(?a1400) Perceval (Thrn)182 : A mayden scho tuke hir withalle Þat scho myȝte appon calle When þat hir nede stode.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)330/7 : He is curtyese and mylde, and the moste sufferynge man that ever I mette withall.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)356/35 : His dame is levyng, mary that men call; Myche pepil halt hire wythall, wherfore…yif we Suffre hyre…to relefe, oure lawys sche schal make to myschefe and meche schame don vs sche schall.
- a1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)2238 : But democrite said best liquour to present Elixer with-alle was water permanent.
- a1475 Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)10136 : If a good felawe come to þe shal Þat þou desirest to ete wiþal, Þou etist murier þan bifore.
c
- a1450 Mandev.(3) (BodeMus 116)7/17 : There is on of the naylys of yryn that Crist was nayled withal.
- (1450) Lin.DDoc.44/1 : Item, all my Syluer wessell…& xxxij sawcers which I am serued with all [vr. with] dayly, I wol that it be smytten in koyne.
- c1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)215/31 : Be þe ȝerde of Moyses þat he shuld smyte with-all, I vndirstond good preyours of hem þat be well shrywyn and sorefull for here synnes.
- (a1461) Paston2.199 : He had don his dever in þat in hym was to noyse me and slaunder me, þe whiche I am wers plesed with-all þan with ony mony þat I haue spent.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)147/11 : With myssehappe and mysseadventure have I done this batayle with the lorde and kynge that I am withholdyn withall.
- c1475 Brm.Abraham (Brm)90 : An hard deth my son schall fell For to honore the, Lord, wythall.
- a1475 Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)4088 : Ete and drinke…And slepe al þat resoun wile, And so wel ouercome he shal Þe yuel þat he is stired wiþal.
- 1530(c1450) Mirror Our Lady (Fawkes)80 : Where euer the fendes se the sygne of the crosse, they flye away, dredyng yt as a staffe that they are beten wyth all.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)13555 : Thou shalt haue meite for a mele to mirth the with-all.