"slepen" meaning in Middle English

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      "form": "slepede",
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      "form": "slepynge",
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      "form": "slæpen",
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      "form": "sleepen",
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          "english": "\"Judas, get up on the rock, high on the stone, / rest your head on my lap and fall asleep right away!\"",
          "ref": "c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 15-16; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 29 May 2019:",
          "text": "Iudaſ go þou on þe roc heie upon the ſton / lei þin heued i my barm, ſlep þou þe anon",
          "translation": "\"Judas, get up on the rock, high on the stone, / rest your head on my lap and fall asleep right away!\"",
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        {
          "english": "For Nature will not allow / Any earthly creature / To survive for long / Without sleep, and sorrowing; / And yet I cannot, by night or morning, / Sleep, […]",
          "ref": "c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1450–1475 in Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 638, folio 110v",
          "text": "For Nature wolde nat ſuffyſe / To non erthly creature / Not longe tyme to endure / Without ſlepe & be yn ſorwe / And I ne may ne nyght ne morwe / Slepe […]",
          "translation": "For Nature will not allow / Any earthly creature / To survive for long / Without sleep, and sorrowing; / And yet I cannot, by night or morning, / Sleep, […]",
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          "english": "And small birds make melodies, / sleeping all night with an open eye.",
          "ref": "1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 2, recto, lines 9-10:",
          "text": "And smale foweles maken melodye / That slepen al the nyght with open iye",
          "translation": "And small birds make melodies, / sleeping all night with an open eye.",
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        "(figuratively) To be unused or dormant."
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      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slepen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slepe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slepen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slepe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slepten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slepte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slepeden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slepede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slepeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slepe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slepynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slepende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slepen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yslepen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slepe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yslepe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slept",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yslept",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sleped",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ysleped",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slæpen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sleepen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slepe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "slepen",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "stem": "slep"
      },
      "expansion": "slepen (third-person singular simple present slepeth, present participle slepende, slepynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle sleped)",
      "name": "enm-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "slep",
        "2": "slep",
        "3s2": "slepth",
        "c": "7",
        "w": "te",
        "w2": "ed",
        "y": "2"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-st"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "slep"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              69,
              73
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              78,
              89
            ]
          ],
          "english": "\"Judas, get up on the rock, high on the stone, / rest your head on my lap and fall asleep right away!\"",
          "ref": "c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 15-16; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 29 May 2019:",
          "text": "Iudaſ go þou on þe roc heie upon the ſton / lei þin heued i my barm, ſlep þou þe anon",
          "translation": "\"Judas, get up on the rock, high on the stone, / rest your head on my lap and fall asleep right away!\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "For Nature will not allow / Any earthly creature / To survive for long / Without sleep, and sorrowing; / And yet I cannot, by night or morning, / Sleep, […]",
          "ref": "c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1450–1475 in Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 638, folio 110v",
          "text": "For Nature wolde nat ſuffyſe / To non erthly creature / Not longe tyme to endure / Without ſlepe & be yn ſorwe / And I ne may ne nyght ne morwe / Slepe […]",
          "translation": "For Nature will not allow / Any earthly creature / To survive for long / Without sleep, and sorrowing; / And yet I cannot, by night or morning, / Sleep, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              34,
              45
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              33,
              41
            ]
          ],
          "english": "And small birds make melodies, / sleeping all night with an open eye.",
          "ref": "1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 2, recto, lines 9-10:",
          "text": "And smale foweles maken melodye / That slepen al the nyght with open iye",
          "translation": "And small birds make melodies, / sleeping all night with an open eye.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sleep; to be sleeping"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sleep",
          "sleep"
        ],
        [
          "be",
          "be"
        ],
        [
          "sleeping",
          "sleeping"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "To sleep; to be sleeping:"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sleep; to be sleeping:",
        "To fall asleep; to go to sleep."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sleep",
          "sleep"
        ],
        [
          "be",
          "be"
        ],
        [
          "sleeping",
          "sleeping"
        ],
        [
          "asleep",
          "asleep"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sleep; to be sleeping:",
        "To cause to sleep; to make sleep."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sleep",
          "sleep"
        ],
        [
          "be",
          "be"
        ],
        [
          "sleeping",
          "sleeping"
        ],
        [
          "cause",
          "cause"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To copulate, have intercourse"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "copulate",
          "copulate"
        ],
        [
          "intercourse",
          "intercourse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) To copulate, have intercourse"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To be unused or dormant."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unused",
          "unused"
        ],
        [
          "dormant",
          "dormant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) To be unused or dormant."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsleːpən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈslɛ̝ːpən/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "slepen"
}

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  "msg": "''To sleep; to be sleeping:'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
  "path": [
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  ],
  "section": "Middle English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "slepen",
  "trace": ""
}