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talen.

Brit. /teɪl/, U.S. /teɪl/
Forms: Old English talu, infl. tale, Middle English– tale; also Middle English talle, Middle English–1500s tayle, Middle English tayl, taal(e, taille, Middle English–1600s tail, Middle English tayll(e, Middle English–1500s taill, taile (1500s tell(e), 1500s–1800s dialect teale. β. Old English–Middle English tal, Middle English tall.
Etymology: Old English talu , inflected tale , = Old Frisian tale , Old Saxon tala , Middle Dutch, Middle Low German tāle , Dutch taal speech, Low German tāl , Old High German zala , Middle High German zal , German zahl number, Old Norse tala talk, speech, tale, number, Danish tale speech, discourse; all < Germanic *talā strong feminine, from verbal stem tal- , in taljan , to mention things in their natural or due order, to relate, enumerate, reckon: see tell v. The Old Northumbrian tal and early Middle English tal , tall in sense 6, may represent the Old Norse tal neuter (Swedish tal speech, number, Danish tal number), or the Old English getæl reckoning, number.
I. Senses relating to telling or narration.
†1.
a. The action of telling, relating, or saying; discourse, conversation, talk. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun]
spellc888
talec1000
telling?c1225
relationc1390
fablec1400
collationc1430
deliverance1431
narrationc1449
exposition1460
recounting1485
deducing1530
recital1565
delivery1592
reporting1603
retailing1609
recountmenta1616
narrative1748
narrating1802
deducement1820
recountal1825
retailment1832
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun]
speechc900
talec1000
speaka1300
reasonc1300
speakinga1325
counsela1350
intercommuningc1374
dalliancec1400
communication1419
communancec1449
collocutiona1464
parlour?c1475
sermocination1514
commona1529
dialogue?1533
interlocutiona1534
discourse1545
discoursing1550
conference1565
purposea1572
talk1572
interspeech1579
conversationa1586
devising1586
intercourse1596
intercommunication1603
eclogue1604
commercing1610
communion1614
negocea1617
alloquy1623
confariation1652
gob1681
gab1761
commune1814
colloquy1817
conversing1884
cross-talk1887
bull session1920
rap1957
c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints (1890) II. 210 Seo modor sæt geornlice hlystende hire tale.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 54 Eue heold..long tale wið þe neddre.
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 3 Iherde ich holde grete tale An hule and one niȝtingale.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 638 As tulk of tale most trwe.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1941 He turnyt hym tyte withouten tale more.
a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Bii Quene Iuno then thus tooke her tale agayne.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 87 Thou wouldst haue me stopp my tale against the haire.
†b. An enumeration, a list. Obsolete. rare.
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c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 437/34 Laterculus, talu.
†2. Speech, language. Obsolete. rare. (Cf. taal n.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > a language > [noun]
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rounOE
ledenc1000
tonguec1000
wordOE
moalc1175
speaka1300
languagec1300
land-speecha1325
talea1325
lip1382
stevenc1386
languea1425
leed1513
public language1521
idiom1575
idiotism1588
lingua1660
lingua franca1697
receptive language1926
the mind > language > speech > [noun]
speechc725
spellc888
tonguec897
spellingc1000
wordOE
mathelingOE
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sermonc1275
leeda1300
gale13..
speakc1300
speaking1303
ledenc1320
talea1325
parliamentc1325
winda1330
sermoningc1330
saying1340
melinga1375
talkingc1386
wordc1390
prolationa1393
carpinga1400
eloquencec1400
utteringc1400
language?c1450
reporturec1475
parleyc1490
locutionc1500
talk1539
discourse1545
report1548
tonguec1550
deliverance1553
oration1555
delivery1577
parling1582
parle1584
conveying1586
passage1598
perlocution1599
wording1604
bursta1616
ventilation1615
loquency1623
voicinga1626
verbocination1653
loquence1677
pronunciation1686
loquel1694
jawinga1731
talkee-talkee?1740
vocification1743
talkation1781
voicing1822
utterancy1827
voicing1831
the spoken word1832
outness1851
verbalization1851
voice1855
outgiving1865
stringing1886
praxis1950
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2526 God schilde hise sowle fro helle bale, Ðe made it ðus on engel-tale.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 450 Bigamie is unkinde ðing, On engleis tale twie-wifing.
3.
a. That which one tells; the relation of a series of events; a narrative, statement, information. thereby hangs a tale (and such phrases): = ‘about that there is something to tell’. to tell one's tale: see to tell one's tale at tell v. Phrases 1a.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun]
spellc888
talea1060
book-spellc1275
pistlec1400
treatyc1400
narrationc1449
story1489
reportory1534
narrative1566
reportary1594
monogatari1876
récit1915
diegesis1973
a1060 Charter of Godwine & Leofwine in Kemble Cod. Dipl. IV. 266 Ða ða him seo talu cuð wæs, ða sende he gewrit.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12196 Ne mai hit na mon suggen on his tale [c1300 Otho in tale].
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark i. 28 And the tale [a1425 L.V. fame; L. rumor], or tything, of hym wente forth anoon in to al the cuntree of Galilee.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8697 O þiskin tall [Gött. playnt] him thoght sel-cut, Als of a cas þat was vncuth.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 24887 Þe angel þus he tald his talle.
1412–20 Lydgate's Chron. Troy (Roy. MS.) (rubric) bef. l. 1701 Vlixes taile to Achile.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xx. 230 Vnto vs he takys no tent, Bot ilk man trowes vnto his tayll [rhymes dayll (= dale), hayll, avayll].
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Husbandman l. 2288 in Poems (1981) 86 Ane leill man is not tane at halff ane taill.
1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 1200 Yet, thoughe I say it, therby lyeth a tale.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings i. 14 While thou..talkest with the kynge, I wyll come in after the, and tell forth thy tayle.
?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 364 Sua he..brocht the teale bravelie about.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. v. xxi. 194 But hereto longeth a tale.
1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Aiijv One tale is good, untill anothers told.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. i. 51 Gru. Out of their saddles into the durt, and thereby hangs a tale. Cur. Let's ha't good Grumio. View more context for this quotation
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 12 It was a good while before we ever heard Tale or Tidings of him.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 181 Then my fellow takes the tale up.
1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 117 Mr. Tournay told his tale without comment.
†b. The subject of common talk; the ‘talk’ (of the town, etc.). Obsolete.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > topic of or subject for conversation or gossip
talec1230
noveltyc1384
talking-stock1548
table talk1572
talk-stuff1598
talk1624
conference1633
town talk1642
conversation piece1784
talking point1922
c1230 Hali Meid. 33 Vpbrud in uuel muð tale bimong alle.
1619 M. Drayton Legend Pierce Gaueston in Poems (rev. ed.) 366 I was the Tale of euery common Tongue.
c. plural. Things told so as to violate confidence or secrecy; reports of private matters not proper to be divulged; idle or mischievous gossip; esp. in to tell (bear, bring, carry) tales; tales out of school (see school n.1 Phrases 6); proverbial phr. dead men tell no tales.
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society > communication > information > rumour > [noun]
speechc1000
wordOE
hearinga1300
opinion1340
talesa1375
famea1387
inklinga1400
slandera1400
noising1422
rumour?a1425
bruit1477
nickinga1500
commoninga1513
roarc1520
murmura1522
hearsay?1533
cry1569
scandal1596
vogue1626
discourse1677
sough1716
circulation1775
gossip1811
myth1849
breeze1879
sound1899
potin1922
dirt1926
rumble1929
skinny1938
labrish1942
lie and story1950
scam1964
he-say-she-say1972
factoid1973
ripple1977
goss1985
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 334 Be no tellere of talis but trewe to þi lord.
c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 353 Now we have golde No talys xul be tolde.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tales to brynge or tell, perfero.
1560 T. Becon Wks. II. 97 He that hath his body laden with meat & drinke is no more mete to prai vnto god then a dead man is to tel a tale.
1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat i. i. sig. B2 Peace infant, Tales out a schoole take heed you will be britchd else.
1664 J. Wilson Andronicus Comnenius i. iv. 14 'Twere best To knock 'um i' th head, and give it out The Soldiers did it... The dead can tell no tales.
1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iv. i. 48 There is a Proverb..which saies, That Dead-men tell no Tales; but let your Souldiers apply it at their own Perils.
1702 G. Farquhar Inconstant v. ii. 76 Ay, ay, Dead Men, tell no Tales.
1737 L. Clarke Compl. Hist. Bible I. i. 73 Joseph..told Tales of them to his Father.
1838 G. P. R. James Robber I. vi. 129 Dead men tell no tales.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. iv. 67 Where are the stories of those who have not risen..who have ended in desperation?.. Dead men tell no tales.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 12 Feb. 2/3 Telling tales is reprobated by English public-school boys—rightly, in so far as the condemnation is directed against getting others into trouble for your own profit or pleasure.
1974 ‘M. Innes’ Appleby's Other Story xv. 122 ‘There was only one sure way to do it.’ ‘To kill him?’.. ‘Yes. Dead men, they say, can tell no tales.’
d. in the same tale, in a (= one) tale, in the same enumeration, statement, or category; hence, in agreement; so in two tales. archaic.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 683 Þe bestes weren in samen tale [Vesp. war samer-tale] wit-outen hurt in herde ay hale.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1656/1 Thou art a false knaue to be in two tales, therfore said he, hang him vp.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iv. ii. 31 Fore God they are both in a tale . View more context for this quotation
1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie i. v. 14 Truth must needs be one..and can never be found in two contrary tales.
1860 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth lv Which did accuse heavenly truth of falsehood for not being in a tale with him.
1887 A. Lang Myth, Ritual & Relig. II. 333 The Wesleyan missionary..is in the same tale with the Jesuit.
e. tale of woe: see tale of woe at woe int., adv., n., and adj. Phrases 5.
4. A story or narrative, true or fictitious, drawn up so as to interest or amuse, or to preserve the history of a fact or incident; a literary composition cast in narrative form.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account
talec1200
historyc1230
sawc1320
tellinga1325
treatisec1374
chroniclec1380
process?1387
legendc1390
prosec1390
pistlec1395
treatc1400
relationc1425
rehearsal?a1439
report?a1439
narrationc1449
recorda1450
count1477
redec1480
story1489
recount1490
deductiona1532
repetition1533
narrative1539
discourse1546
account1561
recital1561
enarrative1575
legendary1577
enarration1592
recite1594
repeat1609
texture1611
recitation1614
rendera1616
prospect1625
recitement1646
tell1743
diegesis1829
récit1915
narrative line1953
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 101 We nime ȝeme of þre þing on þis tale.
c1275 Passion our Lord 1 in Old Eng. Misc. 37 Ihereþ nv one lutele tale..As we vyndeþ hit iwrite in þe godspelle.
c1290 Beket 1 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 106 Wolle ȝe nouþe i-heore þis englische tale?
1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 190 Tendeþ how þis tale is titeled.
c1386 G. Chaucer Pard. Prol. 109 For lewed peple louen tales olde.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 792 That ech of yow, to shorte with oure weye In this viage shal tellen tales tweye.
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxvii. 98 I wold..that ye knewe..the tale of a quene of Fraunce, whiche had to name Brunehault.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 576 Schir alane..tald me this taill as I sall tell.
1550 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue (new ed.) ii. vii. sig. Fviv A good tale yll tolde, in the tellyng is marde.
1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe iii. i. sig. E2 Indeed Sir the best Tales in England are your Canterburie tales, I assure ye.
a1771 T. Gray Imit. Propertius in Wks. (1814) II. 88 Hates the Tale of Troy for Helen's Sake.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. v. 133 They are spoken in a mad tale of fairies, love-charms, and I wot not what besides.
5.
a. A mere story, as opposed to a narrative of fact; a fiction, an idle tale; a falsehood.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > a false or foolish tale > [noun]
spellc888
triflea1250
talea1325
vanity1340
a tale of waltrot1377
fablec1384
niflec1395
triflerya1400
truffc1430
jest1488
winter's talec1555
winter story1646
galley-packet1786
galley-yarn1874
cuffer1887
ploda1903
scuttlebutt yarn1918
just-so story1922
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 321 He [Satan]..Wente in-to a wirme, and tolde eue a tale.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Pet. i. 16 Sotheli we not suynge vnwijse taales, han maad knowun to ȝou the vertu and prescience..of oure Lord Jhesu Crist.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iv, in Wks. 269/2 Therfore it is but a tale to saye that faith draweth alway good workes with it.
?1553 Respublica (1952) iii. iii. 25 Vaire woordes beeth but tales.
1619 Let. in S. R. Gardiner Lett. Relations Eng. & Germany (1865) 1st Ser. 206 The report of the Marquis of Ansbach his having defeated Coronell Fulkes his regiment (which proves altogeather a tale).
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 100 There was more of Tale than of Truth in those Things.
1867 London Herald 23 Mar. 222/2 If he had had the sense to..pitch them a tale, he might have got off.
b. In phrases, as a Canterbury Tale, old wives' tales, pipers' tales, travellers' tales, a tale of Robin Hood, tale of a roasted horse, tale of a tub (see tub n.1), etc.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > instance of > rambling tale
tale of a tub1532
cock-and-bull story1670
blind story1699
peramble1824
shaggy dog story1937
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > a false or foolish tale > [noun] > of an exaggerated kind
a tale (also gest, song, etc.) of Robin Hoodc1400
tale of a tub1532
Canterbury tale or story?a1550
romanza1622
romance1638
onea1642
Robin Hood tale1653
cock-and-bull story1670
stretcher1674
whid1794
fish-story1819
snake story1826
screamer1831
twister1834
ráiméis1835
Munchausen1840
skyscraper1840
Munchausenism1848
cock1851
snake yarn1891
furphy1916
fanny1930
the old ackamarackus1933
windy1933
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > false or foolish
spellc888
triflea1250
truffc1430
tale of a roasted horse1532
fairy story1687
pipe story1890
fairy tale1896
pishogue1931
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 576/1 Thys is a fayre tale of a tubbe tolde vs of hys electes.
?a1556 in H. Jenkyns Remains T. Cranmer (1833) II. 266 If we take it for a Canterbury tale, why do we not refuse it?
1575 G. Gascoigne Certayne Notes Instr. in Posies sig. T.iiiiv The verse that is to easie is like a tale of a rosted horse.
1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xlv. cv. 391 This is a tale indeed of Robinhood, Which to beleeue, might show my wits but weake.
a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. C2 Tush these are trifles and meere olde wiues tales.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 259 To interprete these to be eyther fables and Canterburie-tales, or true historicall narrations.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Cicogne Contes de la cicogne, idle histories; vaine relations; tales of a tub, or, of a rosted horse.
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) iii. 170 Fained leasings and tales of Robin hood.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 102 Having entertained the Fellow with a Tale of a Tub.
c. A thing now existing only in story; a mere matter of history or tradition; a thing of the past.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > [noun] > a thing of the past
have-been1737
had-beenc1748
tale1780
bygone1857
1780 E. Burke Speech Bristol previous to Election 55 No power..could have prevented a general conflagration; and at this day London would have been a tale.
1855 B. Taylor On Sea in Poems of Orient The world we leave is a tale untold.
II. Senses relating to enumeration or accounting.
6.
a. Numerical statement or reckoning; enumeration, counting, numbering; number.
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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun]
rimeeOE
talec950
numbrarya1382
compota1387
denumberment1455
numeration1533
magnitude1570
enumeration1577
annumeration1604
tally1614
denumeration1623
recensiona1638
connumeration1646
calculate1695
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4324–5 Ȝiff þu þise taless kannst. Inn till an tale sammnenn.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3687 Swa feole þat nuste na man þe tale.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8100 Folc also wiþoute tale.
c1450 Hymns Virg. 122/165 Alle the stonys grett and smale Thatt byth in erthe withoutyn tale.
c1480 (a1400) St. Nicholas 238 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 488 Þe quhet deliueryt hale in quantyte, mesur & tale.
1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne i. 22 Equall in tale, nor lesse in value tride.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 39 Nothing with-holds, but that from an infinite tale of finites there may at length arise an infinite.
1692 J. Locke Some Considerations Lowering Interest 185 If you make your Money less in Weight, it must be made up in Tale.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 12 Once she takes the tale of all the Lambs.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 116 An exact Tale of the dead Bodies.
1780 S. Johnson Let. 1 May (1992) III. 250 There were..Lord Monboddo, and Sir Joshua and Ladies out of tale.
1830 G. S. Faber Diffic. Romanism (ed. 2) Pref. p. xliv The goodly tale of folios..which now decorate or crowd my penetrale.
1862 A. Trollope N. Amer. I. xi. 249 By measures of forty bushels each, the tale is kept.
β. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xiv. 21 Ðæra etendra..tal [L. manducantium numerus].c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John vi. 10 gesetton uutudlice ueras of tal suelce fifo ðusendo.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7174 O þat heþen folk he feld A thusand þat wit tal was teld.
b. by tale: as determined by counting individual objects or articles; by number; as distinguished from by weight, by measure.
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c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13779 Fif hundred bi tale.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2026 He weren bi tale sixti and ten.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 3430 Bi tale .xx. thousend hauberks of stiel.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xiii. ix. 623 Thenne fond they by the tale an honderd and fyfty.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii. iv, in Wks. 212 To way them rather then take them by tale.
1594 H. Plat Jewell House 75 Where oysters are..sold by tale.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. iv. 31 This money..was, for a long time, received at the exchequer, by weight and not by tale . View more context for this quotation
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxii. 695 The second of May, had been fixed..as the last day on which the clipped crowns..were to be received by tale in payment of taxes.
7. The number or amount made up, or to be made up or accounted for; the number all told; the complete sum, enumeration, or list.
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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > result, sum
telc1000
tale?c1225
tailc1330
reckoningc1392
suma1400
aggregatec1443
count1483
sum total1549
total1557
computation1586
calculation1646
quotient1659
tally1674
amount1751
tot1755
summation1841
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 35 & segge þenne hire tale of auees.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2891 Hem-seluen he fetchden ðe chaf,..And ðog holden ðe tigeles tale.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 427 For Nero somtyme wolde wite þe tale and þe nombre of Iewes þat were at Ierusalem.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18627 Four thusand yere, þat was þe tale, And four hundret and four al hale.
1539 Bible (Great) Exod. v. 18 Yet shal ye delyuer the hole tale of brycke.
1587 D. Fenner Def. Godlie Ministers sig. Civ In generall and whole tale, we will allowe that, part whereof in the particular and seuerall parcelles wee will gayn-say.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. xviii. 27 They gaue them in full tale to the king. View more context for this quotation
a1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 98 The one has multiplied the tale of their good works.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 196 He will hardly be able to make up his tale of thirty millions of souls. View more context for this quotation
1864 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. III. 70 They had a fair tale of children.
1884 M. Crommelin Brown-eyes xiii Saddened at the increasing tale of years and months.
†8. An account, a reckoning of numbers (of money given and received, etc.). Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > an account or reckoning
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taila1325
laya1400
tale1401
reckoningc1405
tailye1497
accounterc1503
lawing1535
note1587
post1604
chalking1613
tally1614
computus1631
tick1681
tab1889
slate1909
1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 73 Ȝe wolden that there where oon lesse, Ȝe ȝaue neuer tale.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 197 b/1 They moche doubted that they shold not fynde theyr counte ne tale.
1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 32 Giue tale and take count is a huswifely point.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 33 They keepe a iust tale of the number that euery hogshead contayneth.
1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iv. i. 198 The tale and account of what was both sowed and reaped, passed thro' my hands.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vi. 127 You might just as well require me to deliver in a tale of all the pores in my skin.
†9. Reckoning of value; account, estimation, esteem, regard; in phrases, as to hold (make, give, tell) no tale of: to hold of no account. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > [noun]
talec1175
daintya1250
price?a1300
accounta1393
recommendation1433
conceita1438
opiniona1450
tendershipc1460
regard?1533
sense1565
mense1567
sake1590
eye1597
consideration1598
esteem1611
choicea1616
recommends1623
value1637
appreciation1650
mass1942
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > [noun]
nameeOE
talec1175
fame?c1225
lose1297
creancec1330
stevenc1374
opinionc1384
credencec1390
recorda1393
renowna1400
reputationc1400
reportc1425
regardc1440
esteema1450
noisea1470
reapport1514
estimation1530
savour1535
existimationa1538
countenancea1568
credit1576
standing1579
stair1590
perfumec1595
estimate1597
pass1601
reportage1612
vibration1666
suffrage1667
rep1677
face1834
odour1835
rap1966
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 147 Þet he telle swa lutel tale þer of; þet he hit nawicht ne luuie.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6370 Þat nis þer bileued wel neh nan. þat auere beo æi [c1300 Otho eni] tale on.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. i. 9 Of oþer heuene þen heer holde þei no tale.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10980 He sale Be-com a man of mekil tale [Trin. Cambr. a greet mon].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7554 Quen golias on him bi-held, Ful littel tale of him he teld [Trin. Cambr. litil he set bi him].
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 3923 Dyomedes ȝaf no tale Off alle that sat there In that sale.
1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. vii. 38/2 The goodes of this worlde..they gaaf no grete tale thereof.

Compounds

C1. General attributive talebearer n., tale-teller n., etc.
a.
tale-book n.
ΚΠ
1628 W. Prynne Briefe Suruay Mr. Cozens Ep. sig. A2 For the inhibiting & suppressing of all scurrilous and prophane Play-books, Ballads, Poems, and Tale-bookes whatsoeuer.
tale-faculty n.
ΚΠ
1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin iii. iii. 100 Forraign Authors have not the Monopoly of the Tale-faculty neither.
tale-monger n.
ΚΠ
1613 N. Breton Answer in Vncasing Machiuils Instr. E ij Rather for thy quiets sake, liue with bread, Then mongst talemongers seeke to be fed.
tale-story n.
ΚΠ
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wilts. 158 Such a Medly-Cloth, is the Tale-story of this Clothier.
b.
tale-forger n.
ΚΠ
1553 T. Becon Relikes of Rome (1563) 198 It is a harde thing for lyers and taleforgers to agree.
tale-gatherer n.
tale-maker n.
ΚΠ
1483 Cath. Angl. 377/2 A Tale maker, fabulo.
1897 Q. Rev. July 107 The sale-processes of tale-makers.
tale-writer n.
ΚΠ
1845 E. A. Poe in Broadway Jrnl. 7 June 354/2 If we except..Mr. Hawthorne..and..one or two others..there is not even a respectably skilful tale-writer on this side the Atlantic.
1904 Daily Chron. 11 May 4/6 A tale-writer who moves through the magazines.
c.
tale-gathering n.
ΚΠ
1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 184 We may often see a Philosopher, or a Wit, run a Tale-gathering in those idle Desarts.
tale-spinning n.
tale-writing n.
ΚΠ
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 213 Tale-writing is her forte.
C2.
tale-carrier n. = talebearer n.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] > tale-bearer
rounderOE
blabc1374
tale-teller1377
clatterer1388
tittlerc1400
talebearer1478
whisterer1519
whisperer1547
telltale1548
tattler1549
clatterfart1552
tale-carrier1552
babbler?1555
gossip1566
gossiper1568
carry-tale1577
mumble-news1598
twitter1598
buzzer1604
blob-talea1670
gadabout1757
tell-pie1771
circulator1792
clype1825
windjammer1880
tattle-tale1889
panta1908
clatfarta1930
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tale bearer or carier, rumigerulus.
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. K3 Spirits called spies & tale-cariers.
1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. App. 32 Common Tale-carriers, and accustomed to talke of trifling matters.
† tale-craft n. Obsolete numeration, arithmetic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic > [noun]
arithmeticc1305
numbera1398
calking1398
arsmetryc1454
arith.1600
ciphering1611
epilogisma1646
logistic1656
tale-craft1674
denumeration1851
sums1877
arithmic1879
Peano arithmetic1903
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 110 Nothing better is it, than pumping two out of one, or taking the greater number out of the rest, in Talecraft or Arithmetick.
† tale-fish n. Obsolete a fish of such size as to be sold by tale.
ΚΠ
1482 Rolls of Parl. VI. 222/1 That tale fissh shuld not be pakked with the lesse fissh called Grilles,..and that the same tale fissh shuld conteigne in lengeth..xxvi ynches.
tale-hearer n. a willing listener to scandal or gossip.
ΚΠ
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. xviii. 16) The tale-bearer and the tale-hearer are both of them abominable, and shut out of heaven.
1810 Splendid Follies I. 183 The variety of grimaces exhibited by the tale-bearer and the tale-hearers.
tale-master n. the authority for a report.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > reporting > [noun] > reporter
reporterc1405
rapporteurc1500
tale-mastera1661
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 64 I tell you my Tale and my Tale-master, which is essential to the begetting of credit to any Relation.
† tale-money n. Obsolete money reckoned by the tale, i.e. by counting pieces or coins taken at their nominal value, not by weight.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > coin without intrinsic value
tale-money1758
token coin1897
1758 J. Harris Ess. Money & Coins ii. ii. 50 Increasing the quantity of tale-money, by giving the old names to smaller pieces of silver.
1758 J. Harris Ess. Money & Coins ii. ii. 70 All artificial methods of increasing tale-money are..pernicious.
tale-piet n. a chattering ‘magpie’; a tell-tale (dialect).
ΚΠ
1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. (ed. 2) II. 351 Teylpeyat, or Telpie, a telltale;..one who divulges secrets; spoken chiefly of children.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. iv. 82 Never mind me, sir, I am no tale-pyet.
1895 S. R. Crockett Men of Moss-hags xiii A Gordon—Covenant or no Covenant—is no tale-piet.
tale-wright n. a constructor or maker of tales.
ΚΠ
1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 362 This Clerkly μυθοπλάστης, this Talewright [1576 Talewriter] (I say) and Fableforger.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

talev.

Brit. /teɪl/, U.S. /teɪl/
Forms: Old English talian, Middle English talie(n, Middle English talen; Middle English– tale.
Etymology: Old English talian to reckon, impute, enumerate, = Old Saxon talôn to reckon (Middle Dutch tālen to speak, Dutch talen to ask), Old High German zalôn to number, reckon (Middle High Germnan zalen , zaln , German zahlen to pay), Old Norse tala (Swedish tala , Danish tale ) to speak, talk, discourse < Germanic *talôjan , < stem tal- : see tale n.
Now rare.
I. Senses relating to emuneration or reckoning.
†1. transitive. To account, reckon, consider (something) to be (so and so). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)]
rimeeOE
arimec885
atellc885
talec897
i-telle971
tellOE
readc1225
reckon?c1225
aima1375
numbera1382
denumber1382
accounta1393
casta1400
countc1400
umberc1400
ascribe1432
annumerate?a1475
to sum upa1475
annumbera1500
ennumber1535
reckon?1537
tally1542
compute1579
recount1581
rate1599
catalogize1602
to add up1611
suma1616
enumeratea1649
numerate1657
to run up1830
to figure out1834
figure1854
to count up1872
enumer1936
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)]
talec897
ween971
takec1175
weigha1200
deem?c1225
judge?c1225
guessc1330
reta1382
accounta1387
aretc1386
assize1393
consider1398
ponder?a1400
adjudgec1440
reckonc1440
peisec1460
ponderate?a1475
poisea1483
trutinate1528
steem1535
rate?1555
sense1564
compute1604
censure1605
cast1606
cense1606
estimate1651
audit1655
state1671
balance1692
esteem1711
appraise1823
figure1854
tally1860
revalue1894
lowball1973
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)] > consider to be, account as
telleOE
talec897
seeOE
letc1000
holdc1200
reckon1340
aima1382
accounta1387
counta1387
judgec1390
takea1400
countc1400
receivec1400
existimatec1430
to look on ——?c1430
makec1440
reputea1449
suppose1474
treatc1485
determinea1513
recount?c1525
esteem1526
believe1533
estimate?1533
ascribe1535
consider1539
regard1547
count1553
to look upon ——1553
take1561
reck1567
eye?1593
censure1597
subscribe1600
perhibit1613
behold1642
resent1642
attributea1657
fancy1662
vogue1675
decount1762
to put down1788
to set down1798
rate1854
have1867
mean1878
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxxiii. 226 [He] hit ðonne swiðe unaberendlic talað.
a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. v. xiii. §3 Nis ðis seo hel, swa ðu talest and wenest.
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxvi. 53 Ðu tales..þæt ic ne mæge gebidda fader min.
c1000 Wulfstan Homilies vii. 52 He talaþ..hine sylfne wærne and wisne.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 208 Se man..talaþ, þæt he þonne hal sie.
a1400 Cato's Distichs (Fairf.) l. 100 in R. Morris Cursor Mundi (1878) III. App. iv. 1670 Þai þat talis miche riches maste in nede and bisines beggis in þis life.
†2. To lay to the account of some one, to charge or impute (a thing) to. Only Old English.
ΚΠ
a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. ii. ix. §4 Ne tala þu me, þæt ic ne cunne þone intingan þinre unrotnisse.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 114 Ne talige nan man his yfelan dæda to Gode.
†3. To reckon, enumerate, relate. Only Old English.
ΚΠ
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt., Pref. (1887) 5/7 Ðæt æt ægiptum..& ða æfterra..to talanna longsum is.
4. To count up; to deal out by number.In quot. 1631 the sense is not clear: cf. tally v.1 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] > separate by counting
tellOE
tale1631
to tell off1827
to count out1865
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > count or measure out
meteOE
measurea1325
markc1330
admeasure1469
tale1631
dimensea1641
to count out1865
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes i. iii. (stage direct.) 12 He tales the bils, and puts them vp in his pockets.
1828 W. Irving Life C. Columbus (1849) III. 135 He..ordered the brawling ruffian to be rewarded with a hundred lashes, which were taled out roundly to him upon the shoulders.1881 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Suppl. Tale, to count. ‘I tale them ship [= sheep] to forty—'ow many bin a?’
II. Senses relating to discourse or narrative.
†5. transitive. To say, speak, utter, tell. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)]
speakc825
queatheOE
forthdoc900
i-seggenc900
sayeOE
speak971
meleOE
quidOE
spella1000
forthbringc1000
givec1175
warpa1225
mootc1225
i-schirea1250
upbringa1250
outsay?c1250
spilec1275
talec1275
wisea1300
crackc1315
nevena1325
cast1330
rehearsec1330
roundc1330
spend1362
carpa1375
sermona1382
to speak outc1384
usea1387
minc1390
pronouncea1393
lancec1400
mellc1400
nurnc1400
slingc1400
tellc1400
wordc1400
yelpc1400
worka1425
utterc1444
outspeakc1449
yielda1450
arecchec1460
roose?a1475
cutc1525
to come forth with1532
bubble1536
prolate1542
report1548
prolocute1570
bespeak1579
wield1581
upbraid1587
up with (also mid) ——1594
name1595
upbrayc1600
discoursea1616
tonguea1616
to bring out1665
voice1665
emit1753
lip1789
to out with1802
pitch1811
go1836
to open one's head1843
vocabulize1861
shoot1915
verbal1920
be1982
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 396 Nan swa unwitti. þat word talie..ær he ihere minne horn.
c1420 Chron. Vilod. 2157 And when þis blessud virgyn had talyd tys.
c1420 Chron. Vilod. 3677 Bot he couthe nowther tale ny telle What þat euer was in his þouȝt.
1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings (1899) iii. Met. xi. 69 If Platoes Musis tales the trueth.
†6.
a. intransitive. To discourse, talk, gossip; to tell (of); to tell tales. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse [verb (intransitive)] > gossip
talea1225
talk1461
twittle1551
tattle1581
clasha1689
fetch-and-carry1770
gammer1788
chit-chat1821
rumour1832
nipper1840
coffee-house1861
cooze1870
chopse1879
skinder1942
scuttlebutt1945
to talk trash1947
gyaff1976
gist1992
tongue-wag-
society > communication > information > rumour > [verb (intransitive)] > bear tales or rumours
talea1225
tittlec1400
twittle1551
tattle1581
clavera1605
gossip1627
twita1643
clasha1689
fetch-and-carry1770
clype1843
clatfart1913
tattle-tale1918
labrish1935
a1225 Leg. Kath. 795 Þis meiden..toc on toward þeos fif siðe tene to talien o þis wise.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 263 Þis is þet eadischeome þet ich oftalie [a1250 Titus spekie].
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1897 He taleden wið Morgan.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 182 (231) Al þat glade nyght By Troilus he lay with mery chere To tale.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 329 The toun therof hath spoke and taled.
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 14524 Priamus ran to halle a-valed, Ther these kynges to-gedur taled.
1598 Chaucers Dreame in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f.364/1 [They] gan reherse Echone to other that they had sene And taling thus [etc.].
†b. To shout. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)]
chirmOE
talec1275
rounda1325
cryc1384
shoutc1385
hallowc1420
roupa1425
glaster1513
hollo1542
yawl1542
to set up (also out) one's throat1548
vociferate1548
bawl1570
gape1579
hollo out?1602
holloa1666
to cry up1684
holler1699
halloo1709
belvea1794
parliament1893
foghorn1918
rort1931
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10407 Hunten þar talieð hundes þer galieð.
a1400 K. Alis. (Bodl.) 1415 Þe maryneres crieþ & taleþ, Ancres in to shippe þai haleþ.
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