Middle English Dictionary Entry
corner-stōn n.
Entry Info
| Forms | corner-stōn n. Also kerner ~, quarner ~. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Cornerstone, capstone; heved ~, chief cornerstone; -- often used fig., rendering Biblical lapis angularis.
Associated quotations
- a1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)261 : Oure lord crist was him-sulf þe goede corner-ston Þat was amydde þe twey walles [i.e. the Old and the New Testament], and boþe brouȝte to on.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Is.28.16 : Lo! I shal senden in the foundemens of Sion a corner ston precious.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Job 38.6 : I sette the foundemens of the erthe..who dide doun the corner ston of it?
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Eph.2.20 : Bildid on the foundement of apostlis and of prophetis, bi that hiȝeste corner stoon, Crist Jhesu.
- c1390 Psalt.Mariae(1) (Vrn)938 : He þat is kernere-stone.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)19155 : Iesu..es mad als a quarner [vr. corner] stan For to mak tuin folk an.
- a1425(a1396) Maidstone PPs. (Wht)659 : Crist, corner stoon, xij stoones pykide and xij apostlys for to be.
- c1425 Bible SNT(1) (Cmb Dd.12.39)Deeds 4.11 : Þis Ihesus es þo stone..þat es nowe made þo heued kornerstone.
- c1450(?c1400) 3 KCol.(1) (Cmb Ee.4.32)64/30-2 : As an hows is made of ij sydes..þat be ioigned togedir by corner-stonys, Riȝt so holy chirche is..ioigned togidir in o fey..of a corner-stone, crist ihesu.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)73.50 (v.2:p.48) : Petir of Melan .., at the last hurt and bore doun with the stoon of peynful passion, rubrified in his owen blood, stey vp to the cornerstoon Criste Ihesu, of hym worthily to be laureat with the croun of endeles remuneracion.
- c1475 St.Anne(2) (Trin-C R.3.21)236 : The kyngdom and presthode..The corner stone Cryst hath bound hem..Togedyr as two stone walles most sure.
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)303 : Ego sum Lapis angularis, I am a corner stone.
- a1500 St.Jerome (Lamb 432)333/16 : Þe holy preest Jerom that was..a cornerstone of oure moder, holy chirche.
- c1500(?a1437) ?Jas.I KQ (SeldArch B.24)st.130 : On him traist and call, That corner-stone and ground is of the wall.