Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century
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Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500
Þis wandes bath in _pris_ and _pres_.”
--(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 36a.)
{Prese, Pres,} _sb._ press, A. 1114; _vb._ B. 1249.
{Presens, Presente,} presence, A. 389; B. 8, 1496.
Present, _vb._ B. 1217.
Presonere, prisoner, B. 1217.
Prest, ready, B. 147; C. 303. Ital. _presto_.
Prestly, quickly, B. 628.
Presyous, B. 1496.
Pretermynable, A. 596.
Preue, prove, A. 983; B. 704, 1748.
Prisoner, B. 1297.
Profecie, B. 1158, 1308.
Profere, A. 235, 1200.
Profert, B. 1463.
Professye, A. 821.
Profete, prophet, A. 797.
Proper, A. 686.
Propertéȝ, properties, A. 752.
Property, A. 446.
Prophete, A. 831; B. 1300.
Prosessyoun, procession, A. 1096.
Prouince, B. 1300.
Pruddest, proudest, B. 1300.
Prudly, proudly, B. 1379, 1466. See T. B. 857.
Pryce, chief, B. 1308.
Prymate, B. 1570.
Pryncipale, B. 1531, 1781.
Pryncipalté, dominion, B. 1672, 1738.
{Priys, Prys,} value, worth, A. 272, 419, 755; B. 1117. See _Prese_.
Prysoun, C. 79.
Pryuely, B. 238.
Pryuy, A. 12; _pryuyest_, B. 1748.
Pulde, pulled, B. 1265.
Pulle, draw, B. 68.
Pure, _adj._ A. 227; B. 704; _vb._ B. 1116.
{Purely, Purly,} A. 1004; B. 1660.
Purpre, purple, A. 1016.
Pursaunt, a sergeant, B. 1385. O.Fr. _pursuivant_.
Pursue, B. 1177.
Purtraye, B. 1465, 1536.
Puryté, B. 1074.
Pyche, pitch, fix, B. 477.
Pye, B. 1465.
Pyked, adorned, A. 1036.
Pykeȝ, pick, choose, A. 573.
Pyle, building, A. 686.
Pyle, to rob, B. 1270, 1282. Fr. _piller_, to rob.
Pylere, pillar, B. 1271.
Pyne, _vb._ to torment, B. 1095; _sb._ pain, A. 330. Du. _pijnen_, to
torture.
Pyne = pynd, fasten, C. 79. A.S. _pyndan_, to shut in.
Pynkardine, ? _perre carnadine_, carnelian stone (Marsh), B. 1472.
Pyony, A. 44.
Pytosly, pitifully, A. 370.
Pyty, A. 1206.
Pyȝt, fixed, placed (_pret._ of _pyche_), A. 117, 228, 742; B. 785.
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