MED

See also: Appendix:Variations of "med"

English

Proper noun

(the) MED

1. Initialism of Middle English Dictionary.
   • 2001, Christopher Cannon, “The Unchangeable Word: The Dating of Manuscripts and the History of English”, in A. J. Minnis, editor, Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions: Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall (York Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series), York Medieval Press, →ISBN, page 2:

     As frequent users of the MED well know, of course, the MED history of ‘misledinge’ only appears inverted if we look at dates of composition, since it is in fact manuscript date that dictates the order of quotation under any of the semantic subdivisions in any MED entry.

   • 2002, Simon Horobin, Jeremy Smith, An Introduction to Middle English, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 85:

     Make a list of the lexical (that is open-class words) in the passage, and use the OED and/or MED online to find other citations elsewhere in ME texts.

   • 2015, Ayumi Miura, Middle English Verbs of Emotion and Impersonal Constructions: Verb Meaning and Syntax in Diachrony (Oxford Studies in the History of English), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 194:

     The MED evidence gives the impression that non-impersonal verbs of Pleasure/enjoyment other than lŏven cannot be strictly distinguished from the impersonal counterparts, apart from the presence or absence of impersonal use.