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maimn.1 Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mahain. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman mahain, mahaim, maheim, maihem, maine, maym, malhayne, Old French mehaing, meaing, main mutilation, mayhem (in legal sense). Compare mayhem n. and menyie n.mayhem n. shows what was originally a specialized use of this word in Criminal Law, and semantic developments from this. The two are now distinguished as separate words, but there is considerable overlap in form in earlier use. menyie n. shows a distinctive Scottish variant of this word. Ultimate etymology uncertain: see maim v. Compare post-classical Latin mahemium, maamium, maemium mayhem, maiming (from late 12th cent. in British sources), Italian magagna defect, infirmity (late 13th cent.). Now rare or archaic. 1. the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [noun] > injury causing a1325 (2011) vi. 25 Of wonden, ant of mahemes, habben brefs ase a weren iwoned to habben. 1340 (1866) 135 (MED) He is ase þe y-maymed ate porche of þe cherche þet ne heþ none ssame uor to sseawy alle his maimes to alle þon þet þer guoþ. c1400 (?a1300) (Laud) (1952) 3838 (MED) Þere was many maym yked, Many fair pensel bibled. (Harl. 221) 320 Mayne [?a1475 Winch. Mayn, a1500 BL Add. 37789 mayme], or hurte, mutilacio. a1450 (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 3432 In werre somtyme a wound had he, A mayme in the hamme behind the kne. ?c1450 tr. (1906) 9 Thorughe whiche misauenture the lady was one-yed. And for that foule mayme her husbonde kiste away his herte from his wyff. 1496 (c1410) (de Worde) v. xviii. 221/2 Ther sholde no man serue at goddes aulter that had ony greate foule mayme. 1519 W. Horman i. f. 14v No man, that..hath a mahayme or a blemysshe, that maketh hym vngoodly, shall take orders. 1552 T. Cooper (rev. ed.) Coloboma, the mayme or lacke of any membre of the body. a1568 R. Ascham (1570) ii. f. 61 As a foote of wood, is a plaine shew of a manifest maine. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny I. 170 His Colleagues..would not permit him to be at the solemne sacrifices, because he had a maim, and wanted a lim. 1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Persian Wars i. 26 in tr. Procopius The Law excluded him, for his mayme of an eye. 1712 R. Steele No. 474. ¶3 The more Maims this Brotherhood [of huntsmen] shall have met with, the easier will their Conversation flow. 1740 S. Richardson (1824) I. 87 These bruises and maims that I have gotten. 1764 S. Foote i. 3 Maims, bruises, contusions, dislocations,..may likely ensue. 1958 T. H. White ii. xii. 311 Oh, defend us from death and horrible maims. 1985 (Victoria) §98 (heading) Compensation for maims. 1987 12 Feb. 4/2 It is not left up to a judge to allocate lump sum payments for the maimed. This has been replaced by a statutory table of maims. 1997 (Rep. to Parl. of Victoria) 149 Clause 14 provides that any amount of compensation for maims under section 98 over $5000..must be paid in equal monthly instalments over a 5 year period. the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [noun] c1390 G. Chaucer 625 Peyne is sent by..god..be it meselrie, or mayme [v.rr. maym, Maheym, mahayme] or maladie. 1423 Guildhall Let.-bk. in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt (1931) 111 Þat no Cirurgean..resceive no Cure in to his hande of þe whiche may folowe deth or mayme without þat he shewe it to þe Rectour of Medicyns. a1500 (?c1450) 161 God vs deffende fro deth this day and fro mayme. 1529 in (1888) App. xiv. 255 Persones..whiche ys in perell of deth or mayne. 1876 G. Bancroft (rev. ed.) I. x. 326 A crowd gathered round the scaffold when Prynne and Bastwick and Burton were to suffer maim. the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [noun] > types of: defectiveness or faultiness > incompleteness the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > lameness or physical disability > [noun] > person a1500 (Trin. Cambr.) 6356 That mariage no mahyme to his kinred. 1543 R. Grafton Contin. in Pref. sig. **vi Whiche bookes, if thei had neuer been set out, It had been a greate maim to our knowlage. 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. iv. f. 103v/1, in R. Holinshed I It is accounted a maime in any one of them [sc. the cleargie] not to be exactely seene in the Greeke and Hebrue. 1593 R. Hooker iv. xii. 198 It was a weakenes in the Christian Iewes, and a maime of iudgement in them, that they thought the Gentiles polluted by the eating of those meates [etc.]. 1598 W. Shakespeare iv. i. 42 Wor. Your fathers sicknesse is a maime to vs. Per. A perillous gash, a very limbe lopt off. View more context for this quotation 1602 J. Marston i. iv. sig. B4v Cast my life In a dead sleepe, whilst lawe cuts off yon maine, Yon putred vlcer of my roiall bloode. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden i. 679 This without any maime of the name is called at this day Bod-Vari, that is, Mansion Vari. a1627 J. Hayward (1630) 47 A noble writer in our time esteemes it to be a mayme in historie that acts of Parliament should not bee recited. a1661 T. Fuller (1662) i. 73 They are so Eminent in their Generations, that their Omission would make a maim in History. 1690 W. Temple Ess. Anc. & Mod. Learning in (1731) I. 168 The last Maim given to Learning, has been by the Scorn of Pedantry. 1704 J. Swift i. 46 But the greatest Maim given to that general Reception, which the Writings of our Society have formerly received..hath been a superficial Vein among many Readers. 1758 J. Brown II. i. 66 What a maim would those of Eton and Westminster receive, should the Head Masters desert the Duties of their Station. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). maimn.2adj. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: French mayhaynié ; maim v. Etymology: Either < Anglo-Norman mayhaynié maimed (early 14th cent), Middle French malhaignié ill (1416), or independently < maim v.Ultimate etymology uncertain: see maim v. rare. A. n.2the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > lameness or physical disability > [noun] > person ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker (1884) I. 791/18 Hic mutulatus, a mayn. 1865 tr. D. F. Strauss I. i. 352 Such a thing could not properly be expected of the poor and the maim. 1880 19 May 6 Refuges for the halt, the maim, the sick, and the blind. 1956 18 Feb. 5/1 We thrashed these representatives of the maim, the halt and the blind by 11–2. †B. adj.the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [adjective] 1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Pref. sig. A3 It hath since been the fate of this..to be exposed maime, and mangled to the world. 1688 G. Miege ii. sig. Qq/1 Maim, curtailed of any Member, manchot, estropié. 1760 G. Baretti II Maim, adj. [curtailed of any member]. 1881 R. L. Stevenson Moral. Profess. Lett. in Apr. His own life being maim, some of them are not admitted in his theory. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). maimv. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mahaigner. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman mahaigner, maheimer, mahemer, mahimer, maigner, mehainer, Old French, Middle French mahaignier, mehaignier, meshaignier to maim, injure (c1160 in forms with ma- and me(s)- ; regarded by Palsgrave (1530) as distinctively Norman; > Breton mac'hagnañ ). Compare menyie v., bemaim v., demaim v., and mangle v.1Ultimate etymology uncertain. Compare post-classical Latin mahaingnare , mahemiare , maimare , meishaimare , meshaimare (from 1180 in Norman and British sources, these forms all attested by beginning of 13th cent.), maganiare , magagnare (mid 13th cent. onwards in sources from northern and central Italy), macagnare (mid 14th cent. in a source from Ragusa), to maim, injure, spoil, and Old Occitan maganhar to weaken (c1190), Catalan maganyar , Italian magagnare to spoil, harm (late 13th cent.; macagnare in the regional usage of Lucca). The word is thus earliest in insular and French sources; a Germanic etymon is commonly postulated. The forms with -m- are distinctively Anglo-Norman and Norman. For an alternative view see B. Diensberg in Proc. 10th Internat. Symposium Lexicography (2002) 100–2. In Middle English prefixed and unprefixed forms of the past participle are attested (see y- prefix). the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)] c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 5833 Hii velle..some anon to deþe & some ymaymed [v.r. maymed] & some yhurt. a1400 tr. Lanfranc (Ashm.) (1894) 313 (MED) A Mannes nose is sumtyme to-broken..& if it be longe or he haue ony help, þanne he schal be maymed for euermore. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xxi. 387 Ho so hitteþ out a mannes eye..Oþere eny manere membre maymeþ oþer hurteþ. a1425 (?c1375) St. Matthew (Harl.) 38 in C. Horstmann (1881) 2nd Ser. 132 And eghen sight þai toke fro sum, And sum croked, þat þai might noght ga: And all þat thai mahaymid swa [etc.]. a1443 in (1827) I. p. xlii (MED) The saide Geffrey..manassys hir dayely to bete hir & maheyme hir, so that she dar not dwell uppon hir saide lyvelode. ?c1450 (1891) 7843 Some þai hedid, some þai mayne. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 75 Kynge Arthure slew that day twenty knyghtes and maymed fourty. 1528 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iv. xiv, in 277/2 And destroy as that sect hath done many a good religious house, spoyled, meyhemed, & slaine many a good vertuous man [etc.]. 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton (new ed.) f. xvi The lorde may not mayme his vylayne. 1530 J. Palsgrave 617/1 I mayne, or I mayne one, I take the use of one of his lymmes from hym. Jafolle, or je mutille, and je mehaigne..but mehaigner is Normante. 1534 c. 11 Diuers..haue beaten, mayhimed..and somtimes murdered diuerse of the same pursuers. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. i. 27 I am maym'd [1622 maind] for euer: Helpe hoa: Murther, murther. 1622 R. Hawkins lix. 137 Sometimes the winde of the shott ouerthroweth one, and the splinters..mayne and hurt others. 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Introd. 3 Better it is that a member be ioyned to the head, though it be maymed, then quite cut off. 1704 III. xiv. 440 Who had lost his father and been himself maim'd in the King's Service. 1769 W. Blackstone IV. xv. 206 By the antient law of England he that maimed any man, whereby he lost any part of his body, was sentenced to lose the like part. 1792 E. Burke Let. to H. Langrishe in (1842) I. 546 Nocturnal assemblies for the purpose of pulling down hedges,..firing barns, maiming cattle. 1867 M. E. Herbert i. 26 They maim themselves in every way to escape it [sc. conscription]. 1868 C. B. Norton & W. J. Valentine 182 Thousands who have lost limbs altogether,..have done the State..good service after they were maimed. 1914 E. R. Burroughs xi. 141 Biting, and striking with his huge hands, he killed and maimed a dozen ere the balance could escape. 1968 P. Warner iii. 58 Some were blinded, but most were maimed for life by having a hand or foot cut off. 1985 I. Murdoch ii. 239 He could maim you for life with his little finger. the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > affect detrimentally > impair the action or effectiveness of c1395 G. Chaucer 1132 Of oure eldres may we no thyng clayme But temporel thyng þat man may hurte and mayme [v.rr. maheime, mayne]. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer (Hunterian) 5317 It maymeth, in many wise, Sike hertis with coveitise. a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve (Harl. 4866) (1897) 2929 Beth ware how þat ye wryte..Lest þat ye hurt and mayne conscience. 1562 T. Cooper Answere Def. Truth f. 21v, in Hee that altereth or taketh away any, doth alter and maime christes institution. 1563 B. Googe sig. H.iii A Creature, maymde of Reasons parte. 1594 W. Shakespeare iv. ii. 160 England hath bene maimde [1623 main'd] euer since. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher iii. ii. 313 You wrought to be a Legate, by which power You maim'd the Iurisdiction of all Bishops. View more context for this quotation 1682 J. Dryden 18 For since th' original Scripture has been lost, All Copies disagreeing, maim'd the most. 1759 R. Jackson 263 To abridge..would be to maim one of the most lively Pieces, that Liberty ever inspired. 1767 W. Harte 38 But ah, their neighbour's pittance maims their field. 1823 W. Scott II. iii. 80 That..act of royalty and supreme jurisdiction, the consequences of which maimed my estate so cruelly. 1868 M. Pattison 6 The House passed the Government Bill, maiming it in vital points in its passage through Committee. 1951 ‘J. Wyndham’ xii. 232 To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. 1981 M. Angelou ii. 32 We discussed the..large humiliations and the petty snubs we all knew were meant to maim our spirits. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.1a1325 n.2adj.?a1500 v.c1325 |
