† hand-tame, a. Obs.
Tame and submissive to handling; mild, gentle. Hence hand-tameness, submissiveness, gentleness, mansuetude; also handtamed ppl. a., reduced to submission.
| a 1300 E.E. Psalter xxxiii[i]. 3 (Mätz.) Here handtame [mansueti] and faine withal. Ibid. xliv. [xlv.] 5 For sothnes, and handtamenes, And rightwisenes, þat in þe es. c 1325 Poem Times Edw. II, 398 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 341 To waxen al hand-tame that rathere weren so proude. a 1400–50 Alexander 504 As scho were hand-tame. c 1460 Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 98 We ar mayde hand tamyd, Withe these gentlery men. |