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† namecouth, a. Obs.
Forms: 1 namcúð, 3–4 namecouth, (4 -coþ, -kouþ, 6 Sc. -kouth), 4–5 namecouthe, (4 -kowþe), 6 naamkouth, Sc. naimcouth; 1–3 nomecuðe, 4–5 -kowthe.
[OE. namcúð, nomecúð: see name n. and couth a.]
Known by name, well known, famous.
a1000Laws Ethelred ix. 37 in Thorpe I. 348 On þam ᵹemotan, þeah rædlice wurðan on namcuðan stowan. c1000ælfric in Assmann Ags. Hom. (1889) 85 Ða beoð heahfæderas, nomecuðe wæras. Ibid. 92 Sum rice cyning namcuð on worulde. a1225Leg. Kath. 537 Wittiest..& mest nomecuðe icud of alle clergies. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 467/181 To Marcile þe wynd heom drof, a gret name-couth cite. 1340–70Alex. & Dind. 823 Þe aþel king alexandre,..Þat noble is & name-kouþ. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 43 Al þe worlde aboute haþ name kowthe sees þritty. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) v. i. (1859) 70 One of the seuene name couthe planetes, that ben cleped of clerkes sterres erratiks. 1513Douglas æneis vi. i. 59 The naimcouth hous, that Laborinthus hait. [1557N. Grimalde in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 102 As in the famous woork, that Eneids hight The naamkouth Virgil hath set forth in sight.]
Hence † namecouthhead. Obs. rare.
1340Ayenb. 25 Huanne he wilneþ and zekþ and porchaceþ los and namecouþhede. |