By George Kane
This thesaurus is designed as a better half to William Langland's dream imaginative and prescient poem, Piers Plowman, generally considered as the best literary paintings in center English previous Chaucer. It glosses and explains over 5000 English phrases, and overseas phrases used as though English, within the A, B and C texts of Piers Plowman revealed within the critically-acclaimed Athlone variations. the place attainable, it illustrates phrases with examples from all 3 models. the 1st word list to Piers Plowman used to be compiled in 1886 through Sir William Skeat yet there was no test, in the past, to supply a brand new word list that takes account of the substantial advances in center English scholarship over the past century. This new word list offers specific cognizance to the unique difficulties inherent in its topic, how the texts have been preserved, written and got of their time. It takes account of the dialectical and morphological diversifications among the 3 texts; the grammar of Langland's variety; the richly figurative texture of the rhetorical language utilized in the poem; and the remoteness of many parts in its content material from smooth tradition and its values.
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OE bletsian] blessynge ger. grace and favour A VII 236; (papal) benediction XIII 249, C XV 227. [cp. OE bletsung] blete v. bleat C XVII 38. [OE bl&an] blew adj. dark, livid C III 126. [AF] blynda^'. 1. sightless, blind VI 121, 136, XII 105, A VII 130; C VII 107; as coll. n. blind folk VI 191, XVI 108, A VIII 84, C IX 97; gener. be ~ a blind man XVIII 95, C X X 9 8 ; spiritually blind V 612, X272, A VI 98, C VII 264. 2. dim XVII 266, C XIX 232; ineffectual C IX 261. [OE blind] blisse, blis n. 1.
OE berstan: cp. OI brast] braulynge ger. contention, strife XV 238, C XVI 363. [ME] braunche n. fig. kind, type C XVI 265; pi. types of sin XIII 409, C VII 69. [AF] brawen n. wild boar's flesh XIII 92, C XV 67; wilde ~ XIII 63. [CF braon] brawleris n. quarrelsome persons, brawlers XVI 43, C XVIII 46. [ME] brech n. drawers, pants V 175, C VI 157. [OE bre'c] bredcorn n. wheat VI 62, A VII 57, C VIII 61. [ME] brede n. breadth II 89, A III 190, C II 96. 3sg. pl. mated XI 356, 359, C XIII 165. (2) become broad, swell, get fat II 98.
V 490, A IX 4, C Pr 194; pi. sg. sg. XI 67, C Pr 182; pi. X 128, XX/XXII 271, A VII 2; inphr. 3sg. V 87, X 244, XIII 225; pi. lsg. X 233, A XI 176; pi. XVIII 290; fig. 3sg. V 592, XVI 14, A II 25, C VII 241, IX 264; pi. sg. V 86. 4. sg. as it ~ signalling genre CPr 11, II 56; in ironic comparison so to speak XII 218, XIII 177, C XII 184. 5. Usg. V 174, 258, A III 32, C VII 28, 45; 2sg. 184, XI 416, A I 82, C V 33; w. fut. sense V 589, XIX/XXI 408, A VI 76, C VII 236; pi. lsg. V231, VI 22, A VII 24, CXI 166, VI 380; 3sg.