"moiste" meaning in Middle English

See moiste in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈmɔi̯st(ə)/ Forms: moiste [plural], moiste [singular, weak], moister [comparative], moistest [superlative], moist [alternative], moyste [alternative], moyst [alternative], moste [alternative], moost [alternative]
Etymology: From Old French moiste, of unknown origin. Etymology templates: {{bor|enm|fro|moiste}} Old French moiste Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective|plural and weak singular|moiste|comparative|moister|superlative|moistest|head=}} moiste (plural and weak singular moiste, comparative moister, superlative moistest), {{enm-adj|moiste|moister|moistest}} moiste (plural and weak singular moiste, comparative moister, superlative moistest)
  1. damp, wet, soaked, moist, dampened
    Sense id: en-moiste-enm-adj-5EhwieA9
  2. well-irrigated, well-watered
    Sense id: en-moiste-enm-adj-2dEPFHE9 Categories (other): Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 18 29 23 3 0 1 0 0 21 1 4
  3. made up of water or other fluids
    Sense id: en-moiste-enm-adj-OXSWy70h Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 13 20 27 5 1 2 1 1 21 2 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 14 22 33 4 0 2 0 0 17 2 6
  4. (of liquids) watery, diluted
    Sense id: en-moiste-enm-adj-yVfjhQgw
  5. (of ale) fresh
    Sense id: en-moiste-enm-adj-0JirXkS5
  6. (rare) immature, fresh Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-moiste-enm-adj-2~YN~jHR
  7. undisciplined, weak
    Sense id: en-moiste-enm-adj-~HJjrFx6
  8. (figuratively) carnal, lascivious Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-moiste-enm-adj-R6xaVS-e
  9. (alchemy, medicine, physics) dominated by water as an element
    Sense id: en-moiste-enm-adj-Xnzc9wmy Categories (other): Alchemy, Medicine Disambiguation of Alchemy: 0 0 3 0 0 6 0 0 82 6 3 Disambiguation of Medicine: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 0 0 Topics: alchemy, medicine, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics, pseudoscience, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: moisten, moistinge, moistnesse, moisture
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈmɔi̯st(ə)/ Forms: moist [alternative], moyste [alternative], moyst [alternative], moste [alternative], moost [alternative]
Etymology: From Old French moiste, of unknown origin. Etymology templates: {{bor|enm|fro|moiste}} Old French moiste Head templates: {{head|enm|nouns|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} moiste, {{enm-noun|-}} moiste (uncountable)
  1. moistness, dampness Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-moiste-enm-noun-tGr6K-zh
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|altform=1}} moiste
  1. Alternative form of moisten Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: moisten
    Sense id: en-moiste-enm-verb-62t6RPdz
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (5ee713e and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.