Middle English Dictionary Entry
asterisk n.
Entry Info
Forms | asterisk n. |
Etymology | L, from Gr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
An asterisk.
Associated quotations
- (a1382) WBible(1) Prol.2 Par.(Dc 370)386 : Wher euer ȝe seen asterichos, that is, sterres, to schynen in this volume, there wijte ȝe of Ebrue added, that in Latyne bokis is not had.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.37 : What the Hebrewes hadde more þan þe seventy, þey marked wiþ markes þat hatte astarisces, and beeþ ischape as sterres, at it were to hiȝte þe defaute.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.55 : Origines..made a signe þat hatte asteriscus and is i-shape liche a sterre.