† yˈcore, pa. pple. and ppl. a. Obs.
Forms: 1 ᵹecoren, 2–3 icoren, 3–4 icore, 4 i-, ycorn, 3–5 ycore.
[OE. ᵹecoren, pa. pple. of céosan to choose, ᵹecéosan i-cheose.]
Chosen; often predicative and as adj., elect; ‘choice’, fair, comely (cf. the uses of corn s.v. choose v. A. 6 a); hence in ME. used as a meaningless tag often riming with before; absol. elect one, the elect.
| Beowulf 206 He hæfde cempan ᵹecorone. a 900 Cynewulf Juliana 299 Wiþ þa ᵹecorenan Cristes þeᵹnas. c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. ii. xviii, Honorius..to bisceope ᵹecoren wæs. a 1000 Cædmon's Gen. 1818 Abraham..drihtne ᵹecoren. c 1000 Ags. Ps. (Th.) cxxxi. 18 [cxxxii. 17] Ic..fæᵹre ᵹearuwe byrnende blac-ern bere for minum criste ᵹecorenum [orig. christo meo]. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 45 Nu ic þe bidde for þine kinedome..and for alle þine haleȝen and ec þine icorene. a 1200 Moral Ode 104 Hwi boð fole iclepede and swa lut icorene. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 167 Hwat is þis þe astihȝð alse dai rieme, fair alse mone, icoren [orig. electa, Song of Songs vi. 10] alse sunne? c 1300 Harrow. Hell (L.) 244 Let vs neuer be forloren for no sunne, crist ycoren. c 1330 Amis & Amil. 579 Of wel heighe kin y-corn. c 1330 King of Tars 544 [The child] as a roonde of flesche icore In chaumbre lay hire bifore, Withouten blod or bon. 13.. Coer de L. 146 With a coron off gold i-corn. 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 978 Þe kiddeste y-core þat corone weldus! c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 766 Charlis kyng þe beste knyȝt y-core þat is owar now lyuyng. c 1420 Chron. Vilod. 789 Edgar..To þe kyndam of Englonde was y-core. |