"kemben" meaning in Middle English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkɛm(b)ən/, /ˈkeːm(b)ən/
Etymology: From Old English cemban, from Proto-West Germanic *kambijan, from Proto-Germanic *kambijaną. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|cemban}} Old English cemban, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*kambijan}} Proto-West Germanic *kambijan, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*kambijaną}} Proto-Germanic *kambijaną Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|head=}} kemben, {{enm-verb|kembeth|kembynge|kempte|kempt}} kemben (third-person singular simple present kembeth, present participle kembynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative kempte, past participle kempt) Inflection templates: {{enm-conj-wk|kemb|2a=kemp|c2=te}} Forms: kembeth [present, singular, third-person], kembynge [participle, present], kempte [first-person, indicative, past, singular, third-person], kempt [participle, past], weak [table-tags], kemben [infinitive], to kemben [infinitive], kembe [infinitive], kembe [first-person, present, singular], kembed [first-person, past, singular], kempte [first-person, past, singular], kembest [present, second-person, singular], kembedest [past, second-person, singular], kemptest [past, second-person, singular], kembeth [present, singular, third-person], kembed [past, singular, third-person], kempte [past, singular, third-person], kembe [present, singular, subjunctive], kembed [past, singular, subjunctive], kempte [past, singular, subjunctive], kembe [imperative, present, singular], - [imperative, past, singular], kemben [plural, present], kembe [plural, present], kembeden [past, plural], kembede [past, plural], kempten [past, plural], kempte [past, plural], kembeth [imperative, plural, present], kembe [imperative, plural, present], - [imperative, past, plural], kembynge [participle, present], kembende [participle, present], kembed [participle, past], kempt [participle, past], ykembed [participle, past], ykempt [participle, past]
  1. To comb or brush one's hair; to use a comb. Categories (topical): Fibers, Hair
    Sense id: en-kemben-enm-noun-An2S87s3 Disambiguation of Fibers: 38 25 37 Disambiguation of Hair: 44 29 28 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 38 19 9 33 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 30 32 11 28
  2. (rare) To prettify or nicen. Tags: rare Categories (topical): Fibers
    Sense id: en-kemben-enm-noun-tmsPc9VM Disambiguation of Fibers: 38 25 37 Categories (other): Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 30 32 11 28
  3. (rare) To untangle fibres; to card. Tags: rare Categories (topical): Fibers
    Sense id: en-kemben-enm-noun-mnoMek71 Disambiguation of Fibers: 38 25 37 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 38 19 9 33 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 30 32 11 28
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: keembe, kemen, kemmen, kemyn Derived forms: kembestere, kembynge

Alternative forms

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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "kembestere"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "kembynge"
    }
  ],
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
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          },
          "expansion": "English: kemb",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "obsolete except for kempt, unkempt"
          },
          "expansion": "(obsolete except for kempt, unkempt)",
          "name": "q"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "remodelled on the noun"
          },
          "expansion": "(remodelled on the noun)",
          "name": "q"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: kemb (obsolete except for kempt, unkempt), comb (remodelled on the noun)"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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          "args": {
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          },
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        }
      ],
      "text": "Scots: kem, keme"
    },
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    }
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      "form": "kembeth",
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        "present",
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      ]
    },
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        "past"
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      "form": "weak",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
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    },
    {
      "form": "enm-conj-wk",
      "source": "conjugation",
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      "form": "kemben",
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      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "form": "to kemben",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "kembe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "kembe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
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      "form": "kembed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "kempte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kembest",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "kembedest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "second-person",
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      ]
    },
    {
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        "singular"
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    },
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    },
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        "singular",
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    },
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "kembed",
      "source": "conjugation",
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    },
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "singular",
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      "form": "kembe",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
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      "form": "kemben",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kembe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "kembeden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kembede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "kempten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "kembynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kembende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "kembed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "kempt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "ykembed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ykempt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
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    },
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        "c2": "te"
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  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "_dis": "38 19 9 33",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
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        {
          "english": "Though first he chews spices and licorice, / To smell sweet before he'd combed his hair.",
          "ref": "a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 3690–3691",
          "text": "But first he cheweth greyn and lycorys / To smellen sweete, er he hadde kembd his heer.",
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        "To comb or brush one's hair; to use a comb."
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      "glosses": [
        "To prettify or nicen."
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        "(rare) To prettify or nicen."
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        "To untangle fibres; to card."
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        "(rare) To untangle fibres; to card."
      ],
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      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɛm(b)ən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkeːm(b)ən/"
    }
  ],
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "keembe"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "kemen"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "kemmen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "kemyn"
    }
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      "form": "to kemben",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "infinitive"
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      "form": "kembe",
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        "infinitive"
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    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "kembed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "kempte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "kembest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "kembedest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "kemptest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kembeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kembed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kempte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kembe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kembed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kempte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kembe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kemben",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kembe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kembeden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kembede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kempten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kempte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kembeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kembe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kembynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kembende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kembed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kempt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ykembed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ykempt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "kemben",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kembeth",
        "2": "kembynge",
        "3": "kempte",
        "4": "kempt"
      },
      "expansion": "kemben (third-person singular simple present kembeth, present participle kembynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative kempte, past participle kempt)",
      "name": "enm-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kemb",
        "2a": "kemp",
        "c2": "te"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-wk"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Though first he chews spices and licorice, / To smell sweet before he'd combed his hair.",
          "ref": "a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 3690–3691",
          "text": "But first he cheweth greyn and lycorys / To smellen sweete, er he hadde kembd his heer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To comb or brush one's hair; to use a comb."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "comb",
          "comb"
        ],
        [
          "brush",
          "brush"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To prettify or nicen."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prettify",
          "prettify"
        ],
        [
          "nicen",
          "nicen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) To prettify or nicen."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To untangle fibres; to card."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "untangle",
          "untangle"
        ],
        [
          "card",
          "card"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) To untangle fibres; to card."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɛm(b)ən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkeːm(b)ən/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "keembe"
    },
    {
      "word": "kemen"
    },
    {
      "word": "kemmen"
    },
    {
      "word": "kemyn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "kemben"
}

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