Middle English Dictionary Entry
abēren v.
Entry Info
| Forms | abēren v. Also abeoren. P. aber. |
| Etymology | OE āberan; p. ābær. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Bear up, raise (sth.); ~ up; (b) ~ wæstm, fig. bear fruit [ref. to salvation].
Associated quotations
a
- a1225(OE) Vsp.A.Hom.Init.Creat.(Vsp A.22)225 : Þat flod wex þa and aber up þan arc.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.6 : Take a gad of stele..A bere with þe hete hit þou may, And in goode wyne sleck.
b
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)74/24 : Crist..micelne wæstm of moncynne aber þurh his anes deað.
2.
To bear (wrongs, pain, etc.) without succumbing; put up with, endure.
Associated quotations
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)120/26 : Þa haliȝ for heoræ mennisce tydernesse ne mihten þæt wuldor aberon.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)35 : [Þe] saule..ne mei abeoren alla þa sunne þe þe mon uppon hire deð.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)121 : Ure drihten wes ioffred for-þi þe he hit walde, and aber [L portavit] ure sunnan.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)1544 : Heo hit lihtliche aber ant lahinde þolede.
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)16/236 : Þu wult..abeoren bliðeliche þe derf þet tu drehest onont ti fleschliche wil.
- c1230(?a1200) *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)42b : Þolemod is þe þuldeliche abereð woh þet me him deð.
- (1462) Stonor1.56 : They schuld be cast in suche daunger as they schuld never abere.