Obs. Also undertide. [OE. underntíd: see UNDERN sb. and TIDE sb.]
1. = UNDERN sb. 1.
α. c. 900. trans. Bæda’s Hist., IV. xxii. (1890), 328. Oftost his bendas … onlesde wæron from underntide, þonne mon mæssan oftost singeð.
c. 1000. Ags. Gosp., Matt. xx. 3. Þa he ut-eode embe undern-tide.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 985. Adam … was wroght at vndern tide, At middai eue draun of his side.
c. 1350. Lybeaus Disc., 810. Than seyde Gyfroun,… To all thys y graunte well, Thys day at underne-tyde.
β. a. 1075. Rule of Chrodegang, xviii. To þære undertide se halʓa gast com ofer þa apostolas.
c. 1160. Hatton Gosp., Matt. xx. 3. Þa he ut-eode ymbe under-tide [etc.].
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 91. Hit is undertid, hu mihte we on þissere tide beon fordrencte?
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 400. Þe soðe sunne iðe undertid was forði istien on heih.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 21931. It sal him last ful littel quil. For if it be at vnder tide, It sal noght to þe none abide.
13[?]. Sir Beues (A.), 1756. Þus þai leide on in boþe side Be-twene midmorwe & vndertide.
c. 1325. Orfeo, 74. The maydenes … lete hur slepe tyl after none, That the undertyde was agone.
a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., VII. ccxxvii. 256. At Notyngham from the morne to the vndertyde, the ryuer of Trent was so fordryd … yt men went ouer drye. [Cf. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 446–7.]
2. = UNDERN sb. 2.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 19830. Þan was it vnderntide [Trin. MS. vndirtide] o þe dai,… þat petre went him for to prai.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 23. In an underentyde [v.rr. under-, hondertyde; L. hora meridiana], while kyng Edgar lay on his bed. Ibid. (1398), Barth. De P. R., VIII. xxviii. (Tollem. MS.), The sonne is red in þe dawnynge, þen he schineþ in þe morow tide, and he is hoot in þe undornetide [L. in meridie] and pale at even.
