Middle English Dictionary Entry
compot n.
Entry Info
| Forms | compot n. |
| Etymology | L computus, compotus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A computation or exposition of the calendar, or a part of it; (b) calculation.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.323 : Þat ȝere þe abbot Dionisius Exiguus bygan to make his compote [Higd.(2): compte] at Rome. He was þe firste..þat took hede of þe defautes of þat compot.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)6.187 : Þere he lernede..þe compot [Higd.(2): compte] of Esterne.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)122a/b : Þese houres I put togidre in þe fourþe ȝere makeþ a day þat is I clepid bysextylis..But hereof loke in þe compot [L in computo].
- a1500(1413) *Pilgr.Soul (Eg 615)5.2.90b : He þat made the compote and þe kalender ne sawe neuere this worldes, but only the worldes be nethe.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)325b/a : Do awey compot and acountes and al is ful of lewednesse and vnconnynge; and no diuersite is bitwene oþre bestes and men þat knoweþ nouȝt þe resoun and calculynge..of acountis.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)39.13 (v.1:p.263) : There remaynen but six and thritty iemnable [read: ieunable] daies .. the which ben even the tithe of the daies of the yere, as the compot wele shewith.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.48ra (2.6) : Ȝol schuld falle þer mydsomer day falleþ, as þe Maistre of þe Compote preueþ in his ferst Boke of Compote.
Note: Additional quot. Editor's gloss: 'computus, the calculation of the calendar; Boke of ~ a book on calculating the calendar, Maistre of ~ master of calculating the calendar'.