Middle English Dictionary Entry
bọ̄̆tnen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | bọ̄̆tnen v. Also bottnen. Ppl. bot(e)ned, botoned, botind. |
| Etymology | Prob. OE *bōtnian. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. boten.
1.
(a) To be healed, recover from disease, etc.; (b) to heal (sb.), cure; (c) to relieve (sb. of lovesickness); (d) to enlighten (sb.), correct, reprove.
Associated quotations
a
- c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)52/11 : Ant comen dumbe & deaue to hire bodi as hit lei & botneden alle.
- c1300 SLeg.Swithin (Hrl 2277)151 : A blynd womman..hadde hire siȝte, And menie oþere þer botnede ek of vuel and of wo.
- ?1316 SMChron.(Roy 12.C.12)768 : A wodmon botnede y the stude, Ant a blindmon hede sihte.
- c1432 *SMChron.(Cmb Dd.14.2)276b : Seek men þer botened.
b
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)2488 : Oðer eoile..healeð alle uueles, ant botneð men of euch bale.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)2/19 : Þe hehe healent..bottnede [Roy: botnede] blinde, þe dumbe, & te deaue.
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)7.179 : Blynde and Bedraden weore Botned [vr. botind; B: botened, vrr. botoned, bootned; C: he botnede] a þousent.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)9228 : Þere was he botened, seynt Teodryght.
- a1400 SMChron.(Add 19677)30/704 : Sike men were ybotned in þe stede.
- (c1426) Audelay Poems (Dc 302)174/73 : Þer haþ ben botynd mone a mon, Blynd and crokid þat myȝt not gon.
- 1448 *Glo.Chron.C (Arms 58:Kooper)f.140r : Blynde and wode were botened thourgh hym.
c
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1055 : Þei were botned of here bales strong.
d
- c1450(?a1400) SLChrist (Add 38666)6 : He ȝeue me grace sumwhat to say, To botene hem þat ben to blynde Here lyfe to rule in good aray.
- c1450(c1405) Mum & S.(2) (Add 41666)1182 : He wol abide with no burne þat botene hym wolde, Ne arayne hym arere with reason-is bridel.
2.
To avail, be useful; -- impers.
Associated quotations
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)1189/27 : Well I undirstonde, hit boteneth me nat to seke none accordemente whyle ye, sir Gawayne, ar so myschevously sett.