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▪ I. † ˈselcouth, a., adv., and n. Obs.
Forms: 1 seld-, (selt-), selcúð, 2–3 sel-, seolcuð, 3 sel-, seolkuð, Orm. sellcuþ, (selkeð, sulcuð, -kuð, sæl-, salcuð), 3–5 selcuþ, -cuth, -kuth, -couþ, -kouþ, 4–5 selcuþe, -couþe, -cowþ(e, -kowþ, -coþ(e, (4 selcut, -cutt, -cuht, silkouth, 5 selcowgh, -kow, -cought, -chouth, seelcowth), 3–6, 9 selcouth.
[f. OE. seld-an seldom + cúð known: see couth a.]
A. adj.
1. Unfamiliar, unusual, rare; strange, marvellous, wonderful.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxv. §7 He wæs oflyst ðæs seldcuðan sones. c1200Ormin 19217 Forr þatt wass wiss sellcuþ mecleȝȝc, & sellcuþ ædmodnesse. c1205Lay. 3894 From heouene her com a sulcuð flod. 1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 33 Þis was þe selcouthest cas, þat haf herd neuen. c1440Promp. Parv. 452/1 Selkow, or seeldam seyne [v.rr. selcowthe, seelcowth], rarus. c1460Towneley Myst. viii. 103 Yonder I se a selcowth syght. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. viii. 14 She..wondred much at his so selcouth case. 1815Scott Ld. of Isles iv. xii, Deep import from that selcouth sign Did many a mountain Seer divine.
2. Various, different, not of one kind.
a1000Colloq. ælfric in Wr.-Wülcker 96 Varias uestes, selcuþe reaf. a1175Lamb. Hom. 41 Seofe leies uwil[c]an of seolcuðre heowe. a1300Cursor M. 23 Sanges sere of selcuth [Gött. diuers] rime, Inglis, frankys and latine. 1340–70Alex. & Dind. 490 Þer-inne..we sen selcouþe kindus Of þe fletinge fihs [L. ibi varia genera piscium contemplamur]. c1425Eng. Conq. Irel. xii. 28 Aftyr many selcouth & dyuers redes [orig. post multa variaque consilia].
B. adv. Wonderfully.
a1300Cursor M. 1060 Þis abel was a hird for fee, Selcuth hali man was he. Ibid. 24093 Mi sun þat was sa selcut suete.
C. n. Something wonderful; a marvel.
c1200Ormin 16156, & tatt wass wunnderrliȝ sellcuþ, & wunnderrliȝ forrtakenn. c1220Bestiary 556 In ðe se senden selcuðes manie. c1350Will. Palerne 2579 Se wich a selcouþ þis semliche best worcheþ. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xi. 355 Many selcouthes I seygh. c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. ix. (Fox, Wolf & Cadger) xvii, Sic ane selcouth saw I not this seuin ȝeir.
b. In phrases, as what selcouth, no selcouth, what wonder, no wonder. me (him etc.) thinks selcouth, I have selcouth = I wonder.
a1225Ancr. R. 8 Gif him þuncheð wunder & selkuð of swuch onswere. a1300Cursor M. 1238 Adam had pastd nine hundret yere, Nai selcut þof he wex vn-fere. Ibid. 13902 Selcut me thinc [Trin. Selcouþe I haue] yee hatte me sua. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xi. 358 And how amonge þe grene grasse grewe so many hewes, And somme soure and some swete, selcouthe me þouȝte.
Hence † ˈselcouthness Obs.—0
c1440Promp. Parv. 452/1 Selcowtnesse [Winch. MS. Selcowthnesses, Seelcowthnesses], raritas.
▪ II. † ˈselcouth, v. Obs. rare.
[f. selcouth a.]
trans. To make wonderful; to show as marvellous.
a1300E.E. Psalter iv. 4 And wites þat lauerd his haligh selkouþede [v.r. selcuþed] he [Vulg. mirificavit]. a1340Hampole Ps. xv. 2 He selcouthid alle mi willes [Vulg. mirificavit omnes voluntates meas]. |