Middle English Dictionary Entry
cadūc adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | cadūc adj. Also caduk(e. |
| Etymology | OF caduc & L cadūcus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of fruit: about to fall, tending to fall too early; (b) having the falling sickness, epileptic; (c) transitory, mutable, perishable; of a book: ready to disintegrate.
Associated quotations
a
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.785 : So they [pears] be drie, & not caduke [BodAdd: caduc] & harde.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.862 : Caduce [L caduca] if that the fruit be, cleef the root And putte in hit a ston, & hit wol dwelle.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)262b/b : In madde men and in caduc men þat haueþ þe fallynge yuel.
- a1500 Peterb.Lapid.(Peterb 33)95 : Ðat oder þat is of dyuers colours is aȝens caduce men for to han or abowte her neck.
c
- (1445-6) Proc.Privy C.6.325 : Which bokes and rolles beth in parcell of so small scripture and in parcell caduke for antiquite, that unnethes..may be red and understandyn.
- (1459) Paston (Gairdner)3.159 : Every mortall creature is soget to the lymitez..of mutabelyte..and mannys levynge in frelte and condecion is caduke and casewell.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)62.5 (v.1:p.375) : Seynt Benett .. purposyng and determynyng in hymself to forsaken the caduc and soone fadyng floure of this worlde and to serven God al his life in desert
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)3.183 : These thynges visible..be caduke [L caduca] and transitory; but trawthe is immortalle.
- a1500 Add.Hymnal (Add 34193)475/22 : That wordly thyng..Ne styr us nott to caduk vanite.