Middle English Dictionary Entry
throuen v.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | throuen v.(2) Also throwen, (early) þrowin, -wæn, -wian, -wiæn, -wigen; sg.3 (early) þroweð, -wæð; pl. (early) þrowæð, -wiað, -wiæð, -wi(g)eð, (sbj.) ðrowion & (?error) ðrowiad; p. throwede, (early) þrowode, þrohode, þrouwede, þrewede, (early SWM) þreowede; pl. (early) þrowedan, -wude. |
| Etymology | OE þrōwian |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. ithrouen v.
1.
(a) To undergo suffering, endure distress; also, suffer from an illness or a fever [quot. c1225]; (b) to suffer (martyrdom, death, punishment, hardship, an ailment, etc.); endure (toil, sorrow, etc.); (c) of Christ: to suffer the Passion, endure suffering; also, undergo (bodily death), suffer (sth. for mankind).
Associated quotations
a
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)108/31 : Gyf heo for soðen geleafen oððe for rihtwisnysse þrowieð, heo byð þonne martyres.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.Nicod.(Vsp D.14)79/23 : Bute ge us þæs Hælendes lichame gesyllen, ge sculen on yfele deaðe þrowigen.
- c1175(OE) Bod.Hom.Evang.(Bod 343)20/2 : Næs na þe Halȝæ Fæder to men iboren for us, ne he ne ðrowode for us.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)26/11 : Min cnapæ lið æt ham al on paralisim & he yfele þrowæð.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)126/27 : Heo beoð bisencede on þa hate liȝæs þær heo þrowiæð on ecere seoreȝe.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)35 : His ofspring al þrowude on synne and on unmihte and on wowe and gemerliche pineden.
- c1225 Wor.Bod.Gloss.(Hat 113)23 : Hriþode: þrohode, þrowede.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)5681 : Þa þe he wes ald mon, þa com him uuel on; þat vuel hine heold stronge, ah he þreowede longe.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1180 : On dreme him cam tiding for-quat He ðrowede and ðolede un-timing ðat.
- c1390 NHom.Narrat.(Vrn)36.299/44 : As þis seke mon lay þrowande, A Dragun he saih.
b
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)45/9 : Oðre martyres on heora lichamen þrowedan martyrdom for Cristes geleafen.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)57/32 : Ge cunnen þæt ece lif geearnigen, on þan þe ge nan þyssere geswynce ne þrowigeð.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)122/13 : Þæt þæt he on lichame geðrowede, þæt þroweð þes on his sawle.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.MQuad.(Hrl 6258B)245/4 : Wið wifa earfodnyssa þe on hure inwerdlicum stowum earfeðu þrowiaþ, foxes liþu & his smeru mid ealden ele & mid tyrwan wyrc him to sealfe.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.MQuad.(Hrl 6258B)267/2 : Þa þe scinlac ðrowion ete leones flæsc; ne ðrowiad [OE þrowiað] hy ofer þæt scinlac.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)112/17 : Ac syðæn heo [Adam and Eve] gylten þurh unhersumnesse..þa sceolden þa ȝunglæ þæs wite þrowiæn.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)112/23 : Heo moten eac þenne heom resten þæs runes & þæs ȝewinnes þe heo nu ðrowæð.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)112/25 : Þenne..alle haliȝe men underfoð eac reste heore mucele winnes & seoreȝæs þe heo nu dreaȝæð & þrowæð.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)116/29 : He sceal..his martyrdom for Cristes lufæ þrowæn on Antecristes daȝum.
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)26/33 : Ac ic þæt to soðe wat þa þa ic ðonne bryne ðerinne þrowode þurh mine forwurhtæ..Sona swa ic ðæt word icwedon hæfde me þe licame ihæled wæs.
c
- c1175(OE) Bod.Hom.3 Dead (Bod 343)138/22 : Ðe Hælend ane..underfeng þa menniscnesse, & for us monnum þrowode.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)102/1 : He walde þurh deofles lime, þet is þurh sunfulle monnæ honden, lichamlice deaþ ðrowiæn?
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)32/5 : Ðis wæs all idon on þone ylcæ friȝdæi þe he ðrowian ongon.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)17 : Crist.. þrouwede deð for al moncun al for ure neode, nawiht for his.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)101 : We reden on þe holi godspel boc þat ure helende þrowede on þe holi rode.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.Creed (Trin-C B.14.52)21 : Þus he þrewede for to þat ilche time þat he deað þolede for to beten ure nede.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Roy 17.A.27)61/527 : Hwi walde he þrowin as he dude ant þolien deð on rode?
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1200(?OE) Cmb.Hom.(Cmb Ii.1.33)103/111, 119 : Ic sylf ȝearo eom witu to ðrowienne for þam wuldorfullan Drihtne..Nu þu ȝewrecst on him ða witu þe ic þrowiȝe for þinre wælhreownysse.
Note: New forms: Also..(early) ðrowienne, þrowiȝe.
Note: Quot. belongs to sense (b).--per REL