wimplen

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From wympel (a veil, cover, hood) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix); compare Middle Dutch wimpelen.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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wimplen (third-person singular simple present wimpleth, present participle wimplende, wimplynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle wimpled)

  1. To conceal (especially with a headcovering or wimple)
    With fayre honyed wordes heretykes and mis-meninge people skleren and wimplen their errours. — Testament of Love, Thomas Usk
  2. (rare) To enter into a ritual involving the wimple being put upon oneself.
    Rea entred into relegioun, For to be wympled in that hooli hous Sacred to Vesta ... duryng al hir liff. — Fall of Princes, John Lydgate, c1439
  3. (rare) To bend or wrap over itself; to cover while folding.
    Take soft lynnen cloth & wrape and wymple it togeder and lay it ouer þe wound — Medical Recipes, c1450

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • English: wimple

References

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