单词 | provend |
释义 | provendn. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > kinds of benefice > [noun] > prebendary provendc1300 provenderc1300 prebendera1425 provendrya1425 prebenda1475 prebendal stall1716 c1300 St. Edmund Rich (Laud) 394 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 442 (MED) At salesburi he was i-maket Canoun seculer; prouendes [c1300 Harl. prouendre] of churches he hadde, and was tresurer. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 210 (MED) The Lumbard made non eschange The bisschopriches forto change, Ne yet a lettre for to sende For dignite ne for Provende. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 210 (MED) Þei rene þam prouendes, þorgh power þat þei haue. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 6931 If we seen hym wynne honour, Richesse, or preis thurgh his valour, Provende, rent, or dignyte [Fr. Provendes ou possessions]. 2. a. Food, provisions; esp. (in early use always) dry food for horses, as hay, etc.; = provender n.1 2. Occasionally as a count noun: an item or portion of food. Now archaic, historical, or regional. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder fodderOE foragec1315 provender1340 provend?a1400 foddering1430 feed1594 farrage1609 roughness1813 trough-meat1844 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 10533 Mete or drynk or hors prouend. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 9 (MED) Nabugodonosor with bestis Eet provende. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Eivv/2 Prouende, pabalum i. 1585 J. Sharrock tr. C. Ocland Valiant Actes & Victorious Battailes Eng. Nation i. sig. A.iii For the barbed courser braue, the earth may prouend yeld. a1687 C. Cotton Poems (1689) 648 With Hail instead of Provend fed. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 134 'Tis a proud horse that won't carry its own proven. 1900 S. R. Crockett Fitting of Peats iii, in Love Idylls (1901) 24 It shall never be said that Adam Home took another man's horse and provend without asking his leave. 1971 G. W. S. Barrow Acts William I, King Scots 1165–1214 i. ii. 36 The treatise on the Scottish king's household..devotes a passage to the clerk of the kitchen (subordinate to the clerk of the provend). 1985 K. Howarth Sounds Gradely Provin, food for farm animals. ΚΠ 1481 W. Caxton Reynart Foxe xvij Isegrym the wulf..become a monke shorn in the ordre tho the prouende [Du. pravande] of sixe monkes was not suffycient to hym and had not ynough to ete. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 415/2 The other dayes he gaue his prouende to poure peple. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) In Monasteries, when the Religious go to Meals; they are said to go to Provend. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). provendv. Now English regional (northern). transitive. To supply with provender; to feed, to fodder. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] baitc1400 servea1475 foddera1500 refetea1500 maintain1576 provend1581 provender1584 put1620 meal1630 stall-feed1763 feed1818 board1875 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades ii. 30 Do throughly prouend wel your Horsse [Fr. dessus tout bien penser vos cheuaulx]. 1672 H. More Let. 5 Feb. in Conway Lett. (1992) 530 He has had the two Ginees from your ladiships bounty to provend him withall. 1763 ‘T. Bobbin’ Toy-shop (new ed.) 43 I'll fodder an Provon the Tits for the. 1896 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 16 May in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1905) IV. 632/2 Provven th' beeas'. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1300v.1581 |
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