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† ˈminchen Obs.
Forms: 1 mynecenu, -cænu, munecenu, 3 mun(e)chene, 4–5 mynchoun, 4–6 -yn, 5 -on, -eon, -un, -ine, 5–6 -ion, 5, 8–9 -en, 6–7 minchun, -eon, 6, 8 mynchin, 7 minching, 7–9 -in, -en, (9 mynekin); 4–5 meynchen(e, -yn; 4–5 menchon, -en, 5 -one, 7 -ion, mention; 4–5 monchyn, -on(e, -en, 5 -ioun.
[OE. mynecenu (:—prehistoric *munikinî) fem. of munuc monk.]
A nun.
The distinction suggested in quot. 1844 between ‘minchens’ and ‘nuns’ does not seem to have any foundation in the use of the words.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 155/26 Monacha, uel monialis, mynecenu. c1205Lay. 28476 And heo wes..munechene. c1315Shoreham 7 Sacraments 1780 Sudeakne mey be ywedded nauȝt, Monek, munechene, ne frere [MS. muneche, ne no frere]. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 403 Sche was i-made mynchoun [v.r. monchon, meynchyn]. 1395E.E. Wills (1882) 6 My suster Thomase Blount, Menchoun of Romeseye. c1420Chron. Vilod. 3927 Þere was a mynchun wt-inne þat abbay þo, þe wheche was come off heyȝe lynage. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 7164 Þar war, in diuers mansiouns Duelland, monkys and monchiouns. 1485Caxton Paris & V. (1868) 39, I would rather make you a noune or a menchon. 1495Will of Terbuck (Somerset Ho.), Euery mynchion wt in the same abbey. 1538in Lett. Suppress. Monasteries (Camden) 228 Many of the mynchys [read mynchyns] be also agyd. a1539in Archæologia XLVII. 54 That euery nunne and mynchin of this house..obserue ther deuyne seruice. 1603Stowe Surv. 134 Pertayning to the Minchuns, or nuns of Saint Helens. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. v. 215 Ermengith a mention. Ibid. xi. 256 Lady Nithgith..was a Menchion. 1658Phillips, Minchings, an ancient word for those consecrated, whom we call Nuns. 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) I. v. 198 note 1 The mynekins were so called from the Saxon ‘munuc’, because they observed the rule of the monks, while the nuns observed the rule of the canons.
transf.1531Elyot Gov. iii. xviii, A Mynchen in the temple of Diana.
b. attrib., as minchen clothing; also in the names of places, as Minchen lane, Minchen-meadow, Minchen-wood.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 473 Þis Wilfritha was nouȝt verrayliche a mynchoun..but for drede of kyng Edgar..sche took mynchene cloþynge. 1598Stow Surv. 97 A thirde lane out of Tower-streete, on the North side, is called Mincheon or Minion lane. 1640Somner Antiq. Canterb. 69 The which Wood retaines to this day the name of Minchen-Wood. a1691Aubrey Nat. Hist. Wilts (1847) 49 About Priory St. Maries, and in the Minchin-meadowes there,..there is infinite variety of plants. |