Middle English Dictionary Entry
continǧent ppl.
Entry Info
| Forms | continǧent ppl. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Dependent upon circumstances, not predictable with certainty, contingent.
Associated quotations
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.303 : Prescience constreyneth noght a dele Be ned thinges whiche þat schull be done, Bot is contingent for to be or none.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.327 : For all þing þat be-tid hereafter schall, Wheþer nedefull or contingent be þe ende, At ones he seeth it in his mende.
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)50 : Whiche jugementes be not necessarilie true; for and if it were like to trouthe, it were but as contingent and of no necessite, that is to sey, as likely to be not as to be.
- a1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)120/19 : He knoweth the thingis to come principally, the thingis temporall eternally, the thingis chaungeable invariablely, the thingis contigent necessaryly.
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)20/56 : Every thing in coming is contingent.
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)81/147 : Yet see I not by reson how this blisse is coming; I wot it is contingent: it may falle on other.