Middle English Dictionary Entry
adverten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | adverten v. Also averten, advarte. |
| Etymology | OF a(d)vertir & L advertere. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. advertisen.
1.
To notice (sth.), observe, perceive; it is to ben adverted, it is to be noted.
Associated quotations
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.514 : He nouȝt aduerteth þe menyng fraudelent, Þe prevy poysoun vnder sugre cured.
- a1456(c1422) Lydg.Glo.Marriage (Trin-C R.3.20)59 : Þey may beo..eeke to seen cleerly and aduerte A nuwe sonne.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)4076 : To ravyssh a mannys herte, Or he the treson kan aduerte.
- a1475 VPhilibert (Brog 2.1)p.25 : O wrecched fleche, whi dydyst thou not advarte The sottel fraud of this world and gyle.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.361 : Hit is to be aduertede that the extremites of the worlde schyne in newe wondres and meruailes.
- a1500(c1445) Lydg.Mir.Edmund (Ashm 46)443/275 : Whan she did adverte, How of hire child was drownyd hed & fface.
2.
(a) To think of (sth.), consider, contemplate; (b) to think or consider; hit doth me advert, it seems to me; -- with that or how clause; (c) to pay attention, be heedful; -- also with to or of; (d) to devise (sth.), think up; (e) to advise (sb. to do sth.).
Associated quotations
a
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.1234 : For chef resort, sothly, of hir herte, Was vp-on hym euery houre to aduerte.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.2802 : Or þat he myȝt his swerd aduerte, He was on hym enviroun al be-set.
- c1450(?1429) Lydg.Prayer KQP (Frf 16)15 : Good lord, beholde and eke aduert..Thinwardes sorwes of oure troubled hert.
- a1450(?c1430) Lydg.DM(1) (Hnt EL 26.A.13)615 : Where-fore eche man aduerte this sentence, That this life here is no sure Eritage.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)1.1863 : Iubiter, whan he dede aduerte Off Europa the gret semlynesse.
- ?a1450(1422) Lydg.SD (McC 182)57/5 : O, Alas, aduertith and considerith in youre herte þe noble and þe prudente statutes of þe Polecie of Rome.
- a1475(1430) Lydg.St.Marg.(Dur-U Cosin V.2.14)114 : He was rauesshede anoon with hir beaute, Hir grete fairnesse when he dide aduerte.
- c1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)1594 : A benedycyte noon ere cowde I aduert.
b
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.123 : We trewly may aduerten in oure þouȝt Þat, for þe valu of a þing of nouȝt..werris first bygonne.
- c1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)75/2212 : Hit doth me wel aduert..That this world nys but even a thyng in vayne.
- c1450 Siege Troy(2) (Rwl D.82)273 : Pelleus aduerting and casting in his mynde, howe him self and his yssue might possede and enyoyse þe crowne..compassed ful many a diuerse wey in his mynde.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)2328 : I consydre and aduerte, That Moyses gaff yow a-way.
c
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.2073 : For naturelly blod wil ay of kynde Draw vn-to blod, wher he may it fynde, Whiche made Hector kyndly to aduerte, To be mevid and sterid in his herte.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)1067 : His sones..gonne to debate..Advertyng nought neither to right ne wronge.
- a1456(c1428) Lydg.Mum.Eltham (Trin-C R.3.20)62 : To you presenting, yif yowe list aduerte, Ay by encresse ioye and gladnesse of hert.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)1.2407 : Thus ay is sorwe medlid with gladnesse, Who can aduerte, in al worldli thyng.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.PPeace (Hrl 2255)27 : A pees set outward, which that doth averte To wordly tresours with to gret dilligence.
- c1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)122/3633 : But to myn honoure loke thou welle avert, That daunger not parseyue my sotilnes.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)3603 : Wher-of, whan I dide aduerte, I hadde gret sorwen.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)11352 : Yiff ye aduerten prudently.
- a1475 Heart & Eye(3) (Lngl 258)364 : I cast myn loke bothe here and there Vpon the faire, if ye list wel aduert.
d
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.191 : Egberte..was royally accepte, With all honour yat the lordes could aduert.
e
- (1461) Paston (Gairdner)3.251 : This was his answer, whan I had talked to hym..as ye averted me to do.
3.
(a) To convert; (b) to turn (one's mercy toward sb.).
Associated quotations
a
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)2.4043 : And beestis, which be rage off ther nature, He can aduerte & make hem li ful stille.
b
- c1500(?a1437) ?Jas.I KQ (SeldArch B.24)st.25 : Till Iupiter his merci list advert, And send confort in relesche of my smert.