We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more
belement (1121-35)
Cite this entry

belement (1121-35)

Cite this entry
bealement  
  FEW:  bellus 1,319a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  belement 8,313b TL: bel 1 (belement)  DEAF: ∅ DMF:  bellement  TLF:  bellement  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  belle 190a

adv.

1beautifully, handsomely: 
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  un sarcu belement gravee  TREVET Cron1 193.13
♦well: 
( 1310-11 )  N. parla taunt bele (var. belement) qe [...]  YBB Ed II vi 88
♦courteously, with due ceremony: 
( MS: 1120-40 )  Quant vint al fare, dunc le funt gentement: Danz Alexis l’espuset belament  S Alexis1 48
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Belement et tost entreuls s'apareillierent, par Danemarche alerent  Rom de Rou wace i 19.127
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  E l’uissier lur ovri, il entrent belement  Horn 1052
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Les hostez devetz soulacer Et bealement les honourer  Courtoisie 400.62
2easily, unhurriedly: 
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  Pas avant autre belement Errot li papes simplement  S Greg 2463
( c.1285; MS: c.1312 )  Mut sereit povre le chival [...] qe ne purreit aler du matin belement le pas treis liues de veye [...]  HENLEY2 354
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  y te covient aller tut belement tes membres estendre  Secr anon 10.75
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  la ne poet mon piee aler qe mult belement le pas  Sz Med1 75
♦quietly, stealthily: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Trop i veit grant perte en l’assaut maintenir; Fit les tuit belement pur iceo resortir  Rom Chev ANTS 1210
( s.xiiim; MS: c.1275 )  Ja si belement ne leverat Ke alcun de nus nel saverat  Resur (C) 433
3carefully, gently: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  quant li oiselet Sunt el nid petitet, Entre ses pez les prent, Porte les belement Al soleil  Best ants 2030
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
belement