Talk:adaw
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Kiwima in topic RFV discussion: February–April 2022
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- (obsolete) To awaken, arouse.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Marchauntes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- But, sire, a man that waketh out of his sleep,
He may nat sodeynly wel taken keep
Upon a thyng, ne seen it parfitly,
Til that he be adawed verraily
- But, sire, a man that waketh out of his sleep,
Tagged by Astova, not listed (“Chaucer is Middle English, and quote looks dubious (was it modernised in spelling?)”). J3133 (talk) 21:06, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- There is an intransitive sense and a transitive sense. May be marginally citeable. This, that and the other (talk) 07:56, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
- I trawled through EEBO and managed to cite the other (non-impugned) sense, but I only found two cites for this sense. According to OED, Palsgrave uses the word in this sense, but if memory serves me, he was writing a dictionary. This, that and the other (talk) 10:01, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
cited Kiwima (talk) 00:33, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 05:10, 20 April 2022 (UTC)