woxen

Middle English

Verb

woxen

1. past participle of wax
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerke of Oxenfordes 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:

     To every wight she woxen is so deere
     And worshipful, that folk ther she was bore
     And from hir birthe knewe hir yeer by yeere,
     Unnethe trowed they, - but dorste han swore -
     That she to Janicle, of which I spak bifore,
     She doghter nere, for as by conjecture,
     Hem thoughte she was another creature.

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