Middle English Dictionary Entry
agrēt(e adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | agrēt(e adv. |
| Etymology | Modeled on OF en gros. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) In great quantity; (b) al agret, altogether; (c) in all, all told; sellen ~, to sell wholesale.
Associated quotations
a
- c1450(c1405) Mum & S.(2) (Add 41666)907 : The grapes grovid a-grete in gardyns aboute, And oþer fruytz felefold in feldes and closes.
b
- c1450(c1400) Vices & V.(2) (Hnt HM 147)109/24 : Bileue al a-gret [F en gros], þat þat is þe verrey body of Ihesu Crist and his soule and þe Godhed, al to-gidere.
c
- c1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)560 : And I hyred þe for a peny agrete, Quy bygynnez þou now to þrete? Watz not a pene þy couenaunt þore?
- (1472) Paston (Gairdner)5.168 : I am a bowte to selle it all a grete and to brynge it to all moste to as goode proffe as thowe we retayled it oure silffe.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1470) in Salzman Building in Engl.84 : [A payment of 10 s. 8 d.] to Morice White and his felawys a great to dryve pyles in the fundacion of the Bulwerk.
- (1491) in Salzman Building in Engl.550 : The seid Marquis hathe let a grete viij chambres to be new made to the seid John wt all manere of mason wark.
Note: New spelling
Note: SMK had assigned to (c) of agret(e adv.
Note: Salzman: 'a contract'
Note: ?adv. formed from ppl.: 'as agreed, by agreement'