† ˈstoundmeal, adv. Obs.
Forms: 1 stund-, stuntmǽlum, 2 stundmele, 4–5 stound(e)mele, 4 stowndmeel, 5 stonedemel.
[OE. stundmǽlum: see stound n. and -meal.]
1. At intervals, from time to time.
| c 1000 ælfric Gram. xxxviii. (Z.) 238 Vicissim stundmælum. c 1000 Ags. Gloss. in Haupt's Zeitschr. (1853) IX. 438/2 Alternatim (gl. singulatim, marg. separatim) tvæmendlice vel stundmælum. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 113 And wunede mid his disciples noht alegate ac stundmele. c 1350 Will. Palerne 736 A-wai wold it neuer but gan to studie stoundemele so stifly þer-onne þat lelly be a litel while his langure gan wex. 1382 Wyclif Num. x. 7 Whanne forsothe the puple is to gederynge togidre, shal be symple criynge of trompes, and not stowndmeel thei shulen ȝolle. c 1400 Rom. Rose 2304 The lyf of loue is ful contrarie, Which stounde mele can ofte varie. 1426 Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 19179 Thus stoundemel ȝe may hym se Some tyme swymme, som tyme fflee. c 1430 ― Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 159 Som folk pesible, som contrarious, Stonedemel now hevy and now lihte. 1481 Caxton Reynard xvii. (Arb.) 40 The foxe loked on the kyng stoundmele, and was glad in his herte. |
¶ b. quasi-adj. That exists at times.
| c 1400 Rom. Rose 3784 Who serueth loue can telle of woo; The stoundemele ioie mote overgoo. |
2. Gradually.
| c 1000 ælfric Gram. xxxviii. (Z.) 228 Sensim, stundmælum. c 1374 Chaucer Troylus v. 674 Þis wynde þat moore and moore Þus stoundemele encresseth in my face. c 1400 Ragman Roll 62 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 72 And now cometh age, foo to your beaute, And stelyngly it wastyth stownde⁓mele. |