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† porail, poveraille Obs.
Forms: α. 3 pouerayl, 3–4 -ail(e, 4–5 -al(e, 4 pouraille, Sc. 5 poueralȝe, 5–6 -all, 6 puuerale. β. 4–5 poral, (purraile), 4–6 porail(e, -aill(e, -ayle, 5 -ayll(e, -eil, 6 -all, poorall, Sc. purale, -all, (7 Sc. -aill).
[ME. poveraile, a. OF. povraille, -alle (a 1236 in Godef.), collective n. f. povre poor + -aille:— L. -ālia, neut. pl. of -ālis, adjectival suffix.
The 16th c. Eng. and the Sc. point alike to an early ME. pōrail, syncopated from poverail, like o'er from over, lōrd from hloverd: cf. poor a.]
1. Poor people as a class; the poor.
α1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 5082 Þe pouerail [v.rr. poueral, poraylle] ouer Seuerne fley þat þer was þo & bileuede vorþ in walis in sorwe & in wo. a1300Cursor M. 12259 Þat the poueral get sum bote. 1375Barbour Bruce viii. 368 The king, in set battalȝe, With a quheyn lik poueralȝe. 1514Aberdeen Regr. (1844) I. 90 All vther personis puuerale cumand within this burgh.
βc1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 6664 How þat þe poraille [v.r. poueraile] Gracian slow. c1350Will. Palerne 5123 Neuer þe pore porayle be piled for þi sake. c1475Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 285 A ordynaunce wolde be maad for the poore porayle, That in thyse dayes have but lytyll avayle. 1503–4Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 32 The poraill of his Comens of this his land. 1549Aberdeen Regr. (1844) I. 270 To eschait and daill the same to the purale for thair contentioun. a1550Schole-ho. Women 797 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 136 He gaue..so liberall Parte of his goods to the porall. 1561Godly Q. Hester (1873) 18 Almes to the poorall.
b. pl. Poor persons. rare.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 14 Bodily almes bi whiche þes poralis schulden be cloþid and kept fro deþ. 1388― Prov. xxx. 14 Nedi men of erthe, and the porails of men [1382 pore men].
2. The condition of the poor; poverty. rare—1.
c1450Lydg. Secrees 810 A kyng that..them Relevith that be falle in poraylle. |