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'abide, wait, be patient delay remain, stay experience, endure refrain,' s.v. KEY: n 3 abhomynacion 1 abhomynacions 1 abhomynacioun 1Ībiden v. 'physical loathing, disgust (pl.) abominations, disgusting practices,' s.v. KEY: adj 10 abhominable 1 abhomynable 9Ībhominacioun n. 'abominable, (physically) disgusting, (morally) detestable,' s.v. KEY: v 15 abate 10 abated 4 abateth 1Ībaven v. 'abate, reduce, decrease (math.) subtract,' s.v. KEY: v 4 abaundone 1 abaundoneth 2 abawndone 1Ībaten v. 'abandon, devote (oneself to) yield,' s.v. KEY: v#adj 1 abaysed 1Ībaishen v 13 abaissen 1 abaist 1 abasht 1 abasschid 1 abasshed 3 abasshen 1 abaysed 1 abayssched 1 abayst 3Ībaishing ger. 'be abashed, embarrassed be afraid, perplexed (ppl.

'Aaron, Moses' brother (in the Bible),' proper n. KEY: interj 41 a 41Ī n1 'the letter a,' s.v. Note that the definitons in the Glossary can also be searched, and they thus serve as a kind of make-shift thesaurus.Ī indef. The headwords from the MED and OED are provided for the use of students wishing to study the words further, one can search the index of spellings click here The second line (and the third in some cases) in the entry contains the word and the number of its uses, and then the various forms that embody the word, with the number of uses of each form. Above all, translation as a new thing with a life of its own, may provide a fuller, as well as a different, realisation of what was only partly present in its original.ĭ.A.Each entry consists of, first, in bold face, the word (as it appears in the Middle English Dictionary), its part of speech (also as in MED), its definition, its headword in the Oxford English dictionary, and finally the 'KEY' to be used in searches (not yet ready for use). All the contributions share an awareness of translation as culturally specific - as originating in and addressing specific contexts: of for example nationality, politics, class and gender. The more generous understanding of the term indicated by the use of quotation marks for these latter is also reflected in a paper considering representations of heaven and hell in visual arts.

Also featured prominently is the translation of different sorts of religious texts, originally variously in monastic, eremitical and mendicant milieux, and including the 'translations' for their readers of divine messages received by female visionaries.

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Several papers consider the troubled times during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries in England, when a number of major translation projects were undertaken others explore the place of translation in daily life (pro forma letters, gynaecological treatises, forged documents in support of a local shrine, texts rewritten so as to update legal references in them) another considers the importance of paper for the rapid dissemination of translated texts. Most of the translations are anonymous, though major translators are also included: Cicero, King Alfred, Robert Grosseteste, Jean de Meun, Chaucer. Most of the papers in this volume consider translation in medieval England (in both Old and Middle English and Anglo-Norman), though translations into other medieval vernaculars are also represented (Icelandic, Dutch, German), as is translation of classical Greek into Latin.

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