† undern-tide Obs.
Also undertide.
[OE. undernt{iacu}d: see undern n. and tide n.]
1. = undern n. 1.
| α c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. iv. xxii. (1890) 328 Oftost his bendas..onlesde wæron from underntide, þonne mon mæssan oftost singeð. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xx. 3 Þa he ut-eode embe undern-tide. a 1300 Cursor M. 985 Adam..was wroght at vndern tide, At middai eue draun of his side. c 1350 Lybeaus Disc. 810 Than seyde Gyfroun,..To all thys y graunte well, Thys day at underne-tyde. |
| β a 1075 Rule of Chrodegang xviii, To þære undertide se halᵹa gast com ofer þa apostolas. c 1160 Hatton Gosp. Matt. xx. 3 Þa he ut-eode ymbe under-tide [etc.]. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 91 Hit is undertid, hu mihte we on þissere tide beon fordrencte? a 1225 Ancr. R. 400 Þe soðe sunne iðe undertid was forði istien on heih. a 1300 Cursor M. 21931 It sal him last ful littel quil. For if it be at vnder tide, It sal noght to þe none abide. 13.. Sir Beues (A.) 1756 Þus þai leide on in boþe side Be-twene midmorwe & vndertide. c 1325 Orfeo 74 The maydenes..lete hur slepe tyl after none, That the undertyde was agone. a 1513 Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxxvii. 256 At Notyngham from the morne to the vndertyde, the ryuer of Trent was so fordryd..y{supt} men went ouer drye. [Cf. Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 446–7.] |
2. = undern n. 2.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 19830 Þan was it vnderntide [Trin. MS. vndirtide] o þe dai,..þat petre went him for to prai. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 23 In an underentyde [v.rr. under-, hondertyde; L. hora meridiana], while kyng Edgar lay on his bed. 1398 ― Barth. De P.R. viii. xxviii. (Tollem. MS.), The sonne is red in þe dawnynge, þen he schineþ in þe morow tide, and he is hoot in þe undornetide [L. in meriaie] and pale at even. |