Middle English Dictionary Entry
collaterāl adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | collaterāl adj. |
| Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Lying alongside, adjoining; (b) accompanying, concomitant; (c) subsidiary, subordinate, less important; (d) law collateral (security); added (provision).
Associated quotations
a
- a1475(a1447) Bokenham MAngl.(Hrl 4011)13/1 : Ther been oþur iii collateralle Ilis answerynge yn maner to þe iii principalle parties of þis londe.
- a1475(a1447) Bokenham MAngl.(Hrl 4011)31/5 : The Meerces, þe which byn clepid mydlonde-ynglyssh, as collateralle parteners of bothyn extremytes.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)5.203 : Yles colateralle.
b
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)14.297 : The fierthe is a fortune þat..affaiteth þe flesshe fram folyes ful manye, A collateral conforte, crystes owne ȝifte.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)8.1306 : To any Cristene who that dide vnriht Be oppressioun or collateral wrong.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)31 : Of malyce and envye, Or collateral necligence.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)135a/a : Wyndis beþ twelue, foure..cardynales..and eiȝte collaterales, side wyndes.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)1.262 : For to tellen forth in special As of this kynges sone..And leten other thing collateral.
- ?a1450(1422) Lydg.SD (McC 182)56/9 : Þei..þowȝte hem so assured in here felicite, þat þei myȝte not bi no collaterall occasion of aduersite be perturbed.
d
- (1429) Doc.in Flasdieck Origurk.75 : He..shall discontinue..be warantie or warantise collaterale..þe foresaid taile or tailez.
- (1432-3) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)224/9 : Devysyd to the Grocerye by testament in clere, as more playnly ys to shewe by a collaterall byll.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- 1486 ?Berners Bk.St.Albans (Blades 1881)her.leaf b i/b : There be ix dyuisionis of cotarmures…The .v. perfite be theys: Termynall, Collateral, Abstrakte, Fixall, and Bastard…Collaterall is calde in armys the sonnys of the bretheren of the right heyre beryng the cotarmuris of theyr faderis with a dyfferans Jemews.
Note: New sense (closest in meaning to sense (c).)
Note: Gloss: Her. as noun: the class or type of coat of arms indicating the nephews of the legitimate heir, being that of their father, but bearing specific additions to the family's original coat of arms to distinguish otherwise identical coats of arms belonging to members of the same family; also, a patrilineal nephew of the legitimate heir.--notes per MLL