"The soule ... muste suffre for the bonde of the body that he is joyned to."

— Trevisa, John (b. c. 1342, d. in or before 1402); Bartholomeus (1203-1272)


Date
1389
Metaphor
"The soule ... muste suffre for the bonde of the body that he is joyned to."
Metaphor in Context
The soule ... muste suffre for the bonde of the body that he is joyned to.
(p. 57)
Categories
Provenance
Searching OED "fig." in the same section as "mind." Found in "bond, n."
Citation
Bartholomeus Anglicus. On the Properties of Things: John Trevisa's Translation of Bartholomeus Anglicus' De proprietatibus rerum. Ed. M. C. Seymour et. al. Oxford: Clarendon, 1975.
Date of Entry
11/22/2005
Date of Review
05/26/2011

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.