Middle English Dictionary Entry
com(m)endāble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | com(m)endāble adj. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Worthy of approbation, praise, or admiration; commendable, praiseworthy, admirable; (b) approved of, admired; (c) appropriate, fitting.
Associated quotations
a
- c1390(?c1350) SVrn.Leg.(Vrn)18/640 : In mony þinges he was comendable: Furst in liberalite.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.3050 : Ther is no thyng so commendable in a greet lord, as whan he is debonaire and meke.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)200a/a : Þis stone is good and commendable, ffor it stauncheþ blood and putteþ away venym.
- (?1406) Hoccl.MR (Hnt HM 111)3 : O excellent richesse, commendable Abouen all!
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)prol.282 : [Homer] with Grekis was allied; Ther-for he was to hem fauourable..whiche is nouȝt commendable.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ecclus.42.8 : Absteine thou fro the techyng of an vnwitti man and fool..and thou schalt be comendable [L probabilis] in the siȝt of alle men.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)144/6 : Þai liffe a commendable lyf, and er folk of gude vertuz.
- (1446) *Dec.Guilt Coventry (Cleo E.3) : Hit is a custume commendable.
- 1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)1635 : Whos lyf..was euer vertuous..Aforne god & man ryht comendable.
- a1456(a1449) Lydg.Corp.Chr.(Trin-C R.3.20)203 : Holding a Chalys here in a sonne clere, An ooste alofft gloryous and comendable.
- a1450-a1500(1436) Libel EP (Warner)876 : Of Englysshe kynges was none so commendable To Englysshe men.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)404 : Res publica right commendabil is, If chiualers and armys there abounde.
- c1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)1755 : Ne myrth is nat commendabill þat ay is by o syde, But it rebound to the todir.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)272/34 : No þing in ȝou may be more comendable as to dysstroye þo traytorys.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)241/1 : A man of grete honeste and of commendable vertues.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)43/22 : But a man to lyue pesibly with..ouerthwart men..is..a commendable & a manly dede.
b
- a1500 Who carpys (Trin-C O.9.38)p.28 : Buy y thynke to revers my owne wrytynge, For paramowrys be now so commendabell.
c
- 1607(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hrl 2124)178/46 : For a Kinge gould cleane and cleare is most commendable.