Middle English Dictionary Entry
adverbe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | adverbe n. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Gram. An adverb.
Associated quotations
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)2b/a : Aduerbium: an aduerbe.
- ?c1425 Craft Number.(Eg 2622)21/15 : Of þe quych too nowmbres, on is betokened be an aduerbe, þe quych is þe worde twyes & þis worde thryes..& so furth..And tweyn nombres schal be tokenyde be a nowne.
- (c1434) Drury Wks.(CmbAdd 2830)82/117 : How formist þu an aduerbe of þe positif degre? Oþere qwile of þe genytif case, & oþere qwile of þe datyf case, & oþere qwile of þe nominatif case.
- a1450(a1397) WBible(2) GProl.(Cmb Mm.2.15)p.60 : Manie such aduerbis, coniuncciouns, and preposiciouns ben set ofte oon for another.
- c1450 Battlefield Gram.(Trin-C O.5.4)113 : How knowyste an aduerbe? A party of reson that is not declinyd and is y sette wyth the verbe and declareth the significacion of the verbe. How many thyngys falleth to an aduerbe? Thre, significacion, comparison, and figure. The significacions of the aduerbe be diuerse, for summe be aduerbes of place and summe of tyme.
- a1500 Craft Dying (Rwl C.894)417 : All maner of poyntis & sentencis þerof, with aduerbis also þat ben put þerto, shuld..be chargid & considered of euery man.
- a1500 Donatus (1) (StJ-C F.26)1020 : And qwech iiij be vndeclynyd? Aduerbe, coniunccyon, preposicyon, & interieccyon.
- a1500 Donatus(2) (Dc 103)1028 : How mony partyse of speche ben þer?..Nowne, pronowne, verbe, aduerbe, partycypull, coniunccion, preposicion, and jnterieccion.