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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1513
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(Nummin,) Num(m)yn(e, Nom(m)in, p.p. Also: numyng, nom(m)yn(e; nome, ynom. [ME. numen, (14th c.) nummen, nom(m)en, y-, inume(n, inome(n, nome, (Cursor M.) num, nom, OE. ᵹenumen p.p. of niman: see Nom(e v. p.t.]Only in rhyme (chiefly with cummin p.p. of Cum v.) in early verse.
Taken, in various senses.(a) a1400 Legends of the Saints iii. 668.
Ȝerdly dowt thane had thou nommyn [: clummyn] a1400 Ib. xxiii. 114.
Nomyne [: cummyne] a1400 Ib. xxvi. 918.
Quhen the Jou ham wes cumyne, & fand his gudis a-way nummyne a1400 Ib. 990.
Numyn [: cumyne] a1400 Ib. xl. 1202.
Nummyn [: cumyne] c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 2050.
And in his bed his first slepe nummyne [: cummyne] c1400 Ib. 2386. ?1438 Alex. ii. 406.
His douzepeirs hes he with him nommin [: cumin] ?1438 Ib. 3998.
The four brether hes thare armes nomin [: cumin] ?1438 Ib. 4718.
Numyng ?1438 Ib. 9063.
Nommin [: cummin] c1420 Wynt. ix. 966 (W).
Thir messingeris were thidder cummyn, And innys [E.2 herbery] in to the toune had nummyn [E.2 nommyne] 1513 Doug. ii. xi. 101.
Nor neuer abak … Blent I agane, nor perfyte mynd has nummyn [: cummyn] 1513 Ib. vi. ii. 13.
Quhen thai the grond of Italy haue nummyn [: cummyn] 1513 Ib. ii. x. 130, v. vi. 92; etc.(b) c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace i. 124.
That sammyne stane … King Fergus has it nome [: come p.t.] c1475 Ib. ix. 53.
[They] leyt salys fall and has thar cours ynom [: com p.t.]
b. Ellipt., with adv. phr. of motion or direction: Taken his way, betaken himself, gone. — ?1438 Alex. ii. 21.
Fra Daurer now the King is cumin And towart Ters he hes nommin
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