Middle English Dictionary Entry
accomplisshen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | accomplisshen v. Also acom-, ac(c)omplissen, -plesshen, -plessen. |
| Etymology | OF acompliss-, extended stem of acomplir. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To perform (an action), carry out (a plan, a purpose), execute (a command, wish, will, contract, etc.); (b) to attain to or achieve (a goal or purpose); satisfy (a desire, a need); (c) to fulfill (a prophecy, scripture); (d) ppl. perfected, perfect.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2864 : He wolde make a fyr, in which the office Funeral he myghte al acomplice.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.2258 : Yet thar ye nat accomplice thilke ordinaunce.
- (1417) Let.in Ellis Orig.Let.ser.2.159 : He hath accomplished divers other jorneis & labours.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.2462 : I ne durst for drede..Acomplisch it.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.6911 : I suppose nat þat ȝe Acomplissching may so moche availle As ȝe han seid.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)1140 : This was hool the composicioun..Neuer after to groch ne to varye, But acomplisshen Shortly.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)5190 : I am redy..To accomplisshe thi requeste.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)4.pr.2.101 : Yit he ne acomplisseth nat his owene purpos.
- (1438) EEWills111/32 : And that this my last wyll & testament be fulfilled & acomplesshid.
- c1450(a1449) Lydg.Ex.AW (Dgb 181)41 : Who doth aftir women Accomplysshith ther willes & desires euermore.
- (1459) Will Fastolf in Nrf.Archaeol.2228 : He had..desired the perfourmyng of the purpos and wille forsad to be accomplyshed.
- (a1460) DSPhilos.(Helm)185/12 : Youre myghtis bene grete ynough for to accomplyssh a gretter thinge thanne that is.
- (1464) RParl.5.549b : The seid Herry late Erle of Derby, entendyng to accomplissh his seid malitious entent, toke uppon hym Royall auctorite.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)15000 : I sholde..ffynde a way, by som vyce Tacomplysshen hyr malyce.
- c1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Tbr A.7)21975 : I wolde seen..Som knyghttely deede..Accomplyschid thorough thi myght.
- a1500(a1475) Ashby Dicta (Cmb Mm.4.42)56/316 : How shold he your ful pleasure to accomplice?
b
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.734 : Thanne arn ther the vertues of feith and hope..to acheue and acomplice the goode werkes in the whiche he purposeth fermely to contynue.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.943 : They assemble oonly for amorous loue and..for to accomplice thilke brennynge delit.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.1875 : So to and fro þei fleen in her desire, Til þei acomplische fulli her delite.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)3.pr.10.186 : Yif ony of alle thilke thinges ben swich that it acomplise by hymself the substaunce of blisfulnesse.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.181 : Þou trowest þat som þing of thise This blisfulnesse doth fully acomplise Into a perfyt thing substancial.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)17311 : Thys mescheff..Ys ydon and wrouht by me, And acomplysshed vp in dede.
- (1474) RParl.6.117a : If by the said Taxation..the hoole somme..may not thereby be accomplisshed.
- (a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)137 : The people off his lande woll be well wyllunge to graunte hym a subsidie..as shall accomplishe that wich shall lakke hym off such livelod.
c
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.281 : Thanne was acompliced the word of Ysaye, He was wounded for oure mysdedes and defouled by oure felonyes.
- a1500(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Stw 952(1))17023 : Gracyously to Acomplysshe and ffulfyllen in me, thy pore servaunt, the Resydue in effect that ffolweth in the same vers 'liberaui te [etc.]'.
- a1500(?a1449) ?Lydg.Vexilla (Cmb Kk.1.6)33 : Al thyng acomplyssched, deth & his woundes scharpe, With all þe misteries of old prophesie.
d
- (a1460) DSPhilos.(Helm)111/23 : Platon is asmoche to seye as accomplysshed [Scrope: fulfilled].
2.
(a) To complete or finish (a task); complete (a building); finish (a poem); ~ up; (b) of a period of time: to end.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.2526 : Men make heighe toures..and whan that they been accompliced, yet be they nat worth a stree.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.4425 : I wil me reste for a litel space, And þan..acomplische, as I vndertook.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)9.3 : Bochas..As he began, accomplisshed up his book.
- 1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)15 : The auctour..doth hys labour To a-complyse the begunne matere.
- (1448) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1353 : The edificacions of which Colleges by me nowe begonne..mowe not be parfitly accomplesshed withoute grete and notable godes assigned and purveid therto.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.St.Giles (LdMisc 683)169 : The saide abbey accomplisshed & I-walled.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)95 : Thi sone Arthur..shall a-complisshe the rounde table that thow haste be-gonne.
- a1509(?1468) Marriage in Archaeol.31 (Add 46354)334 : On every corner unnycorns' horns, the poyntes garnysshid, and othe thre in other places, accomplessinge the coopborde.
b
- a1500 *Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149:Hulme)270a : Thou mayst be no meene haue yt vnto the tyme that the last dayes ben accomplyssched, that ys to sey, fyve thouzand and fyve hondred yere.