GLOSSARY
Of obsolete words, or words used in an
obsolete sense
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Abrenounce |
To renounce or repudiate |
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Abroach |
To
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Acceptance |
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Accombred |
Burdened |
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Accompt |
Account |
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Accustomably |
Normally |
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Acolytes |
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Bound by oath or obligation |
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Adhibited |
Applied |
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Adjure
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To bind under penalty of an oath |
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Admiration |
Astonishment |
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To warn or advise |
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Advertisement |
Formal notification or warning |
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Advocation |
Praying to the saints |
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Advouterer |
Adulterer |
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Advoutry, advowtry |
Adultery |
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Advowson |
The right of appointment to a benefice |
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A disposition or emotional attitude
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Affiance |
Trust |
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Affray |
To frighten |
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A blow struck unexpectedly at an opponent
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Withstand, defeat |
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Ale-stake |
An alehouse sign |
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Allegation |
Argument |
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Allege |
To cite in argument |
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Alligation |
Attachment |
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All-to |
Very much |
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Almose |
Alms |
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Almous |
Of or relating to almsgiving or charity |
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Roundabout or deceitfully ambiguous
speech; legal technicalities |
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Ambassade |
Ambassadorship |
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Amerce |
To fine or tax heavily |
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Amice
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A shawl of white linen, part of a
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To embrace |
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Ampliated |
Enlarged or extended |
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Relating to; as anences = as regards |
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The income of a diocese or benefice for
the first year of a new appointee's tenure, which was given to the Pope. |
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Annealed |
Annointed |
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Annoiling |
Anointing with sacred oil |
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Antelation |
A right of preference or precedence |
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Apaid |
Satisfied |
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Apertly
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Openly |
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The pope |
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Apostule |
A marginal comment or footnote |
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To damage or weaken |
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Apparitor |
An official, or civil or ecclestiacal servant |
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Appellatores |
One who makes a false accusation for a
reward |
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Applausion |
Applause, mass shouting or cheering |
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Appliable
to their beck |
Ready to obey them |
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Appone |
To make use of |
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Appose |
To examine or question |
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Appose |
To interrogate or question in court |
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Raised up |
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To gather and prepare an army |
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Said, mentioned |
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Summoned |
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Formally tasting food before giving it to
a king or other important person |
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Assize |
To impose or assess a tax; or, to set the
price of a staple foodstuff etc. |
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Assoil |
To pardon, absolve |
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Assuage |
To reduce |
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Astonished |
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Astonyings |
Astonishment, confusion |
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At jar |
Of different opinions |
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Attainder
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Forfeiture of all property rights, which
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Attemperate |
To adapt |
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Audience |
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Altar |
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1. To depart |
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Avouch |
To declare publicly |
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Avowe |
Vow |
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A storehouse |
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Against |
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Bailiff, steward |
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Band |
Agreement, contract |
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Ban-dog |
A big savage dog |
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Barrator |
A ruffian or hired bully |
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Basin
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A cymbal |
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Bassa |
A Turkish general or pasha |
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Debate, strife |
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Battledore |
A flat wooden club used to beat cloth
when washing it |
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A person employed or appointed to pray
for others |
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Beadroll |
A list of people to be prayed for. |
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Bead-roll |
A long list of names |
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Bearing
sheet |
A winding-sheet or shroud in which a
corpse is wrapped for burial |
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Bearward |
A keeper or trainer of performing bears |
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Call |
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A madman |
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A mallet |
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Beetle-brow |
A person with shaggy eyebrows, a low
sullen scoundrel |
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In wily
beguily = trying to be clever
but only succeeding in deceiving oneself; being "too clever by half" |
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Decorated with hanging tapestries etc. |
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Behewed |
Hacked with an axe |
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Behight |
Gave, given |
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Benemen,
Benomin |
Deprive, take away from |
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Beset |
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Are, is |
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To betray |
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A weapon resembling a pike, with a spear
blade, and a hook sharpened on the inside of the curve. |
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Birth-poison |
Original sin; in Christian theology an inherent
inclination to sinfulness which is part of human nature |
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Bite-sheep
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A bishop who ill-treats his flock |
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To proclaim or declare |
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Disconcerted |
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Believe |
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Beaten |
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To sift |
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Good fortune, benefit |
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Bonhomme |
One of an order |
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A parish constable |
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A sermon learned by heart and recited |
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To thump |
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Boyly |
Boyish |
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Brabbling
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Quarrelling, |
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Brable |
To quarrel loudly |
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Brary |
One who brays or talks nonsense |
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Brast
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Burst |
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Burn |
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Brennen |
Burn |
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Brent |
Burnt |
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To steal |
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Brickle |
Fragile, brittle |
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Brim |
Brightly shining |
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Bristow |
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Broom-faggot |
A bundle of the broom plant (Genista scoparius) used for kindling |
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Bruit
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A noise or rumour. Bruited abroad = rumoured |
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Brunt |
A blow |
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Buckle |
Struggle with |
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Buckler
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A shield |
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An ambush |
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Buskle |
To work busily, bustle about |
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An archery range; a target |
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Obedient |
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Buxumnesse |
Obedience |
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Legal quibbling or trickery |
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Build |
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Promised |
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Deprive, take away from |
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A miserable person |
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Canicular |
In canicular days: dog-days, early August |
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Canivise
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Apparently a nonce-word invented by Foxe;
presumably "To make into a dog" |
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Canning |
Ability |
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Canning |
Memorizing |
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Canvassed |
Beaten, knocked about, defeated |
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Believing in the Catholic doctrine of
transubstantiation; Capernaites = those who believe it |
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Capper |
A cap-maker |
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Casule |
A chasuble |
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Catchpole
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Contemptuous word for a debt- or
tax-collector |
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Cater-cousin |
A very close friend |
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Caterpillar |
A robber or extortionist |
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A quibble or reservation |
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Legal quibbles or trickery |
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Blindness, poor eyesight |
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High rank, majesty; your celsitude = your highness |
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To bless with incense |
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Certainly |
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A fit of temper; fury |
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Chaffare
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Merchandise |
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Chambering |
Sexual sin, lewdness |
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Channel |
Gutter |
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Chantries, Chantry-masses |
Masses performed daily or at set
intervals as one of the conditions of a legacy or endowment |
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Chap-men |
Merchants |
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Chaps |
Fissures |
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Chargeous |
Dependent upon |
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Chart |
A charter or official decree. |
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Flattering words |
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Cheer |
Facial expression |
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Chequer |
In chequer matters: Lawsuits relating to
the collection of royal revenue |
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Chesille |
A chasuble |
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Chievance |
Success,
accomplishments |
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Child-travail |
Childbirth, labour |
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Chimer, chimere |
A loose gown with red sleeves, worn by a bishop |
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Chisil
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A chasuble |
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1) A sacred anointing2) A jar
containing the anointing oil called chrism. |
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Chrisoms |
Chrism, a holy oil used for anointing |
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Civilian |
A lawyer specialising in civil law |
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Clamper
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To botch together |
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Clanculary |
Secret |
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To clean, absolve |
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Clepe |
Call |
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A monk or nun who stays in a monastery or
convent; opposed to a friar, who wanders around begging. |
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Closter |
An enclosure |
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Clout |
N) A cloth or wrapping |
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To coerce |
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Coactive |
Coercive |
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Coadjutor |
An assistant |
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Coast |
To attack |
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Coat
card |
A court or picture card in a pack of
playing cards |
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To set
cock in the hoop = to act boastfully or
presumptuously |
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Cockle |
A weed of corn fields (Lychnis githago) |
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To foist or publish a forged document |
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To embrace, cuddle |
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Collar |
To wrestle |
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Collateral |
Of equal rank; one of the joint holders
of an office |
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Collation |
1) Appointment of a clergyman to a
benefice |
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Collect |
A prayer said before the Epistle reading
in the Mass |
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Colleginer |
A fellow of a college |
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Collyrium |
Eye-salve |
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Colourable |
Superficially convincing, but in fact false |
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Comfortable
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Comforting |
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Commencement |
1) A conference2) At a university, the formal
conferring of degrees. |
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Commendations |
Prayers for the dead |
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Comminatory |
1) Threatening punishment or revenge |
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Commissary |
The appointed deputy of a bishop |
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Commixion |
Mingling, mixing together; in the Mass,
the act of putting a small part of the host into the wine. |
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Commodity |
Advantage |
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Commonly |
A public meeting |
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Commorant |
Officially resident |
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Communed |
Discussed |
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Associated with |
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Compass |
A circle, hence: roundabout way; circular or
other enclosure; boundaries or limits |
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Compline |
A church service held in the evening |
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Compter |
A lock-up |
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To study |
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Con-captives |
Fellow-prisoners |
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Concion |
A public speech |
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Concomitation |
Consubstantiation, i.e. the co-existence
of bread and wine, and the body and blood of Christ, in the Eucharist |
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Concupiscence |
Overpowering desire (not necessarily
sexual) |
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Concupiscentious |
Lustful, unchaste |
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Conduct |
A chaplain |
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Confer |
To compare |
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Confute |
To prove wrong |
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Congrue,
Congruent |
Appropriate, suitable |
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Conject |
To conjecture or suppose |
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Conjunction
adversative |
A phrase (beginning with e.g. but or
however) qualifying or contradicting the one before |
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Conning |
Wisdom |
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Consistory |
A court presided over by a bishop, for
trying religious or ecclesiastical cases |
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Conspurcate |
Filthy, defiled |
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Constitute
proctors |
To appoint lawyers to represent oneself
in court |
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Contemn
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To despise |
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Contentation |
Contentment, satisfaction |
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Continue |
Contents |
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Control |
To contradict or object to some statement |
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Contumacy |
Contemptuous refusal to obey |
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Contumelious |
Degrading or insulting |
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Contumely,
Contumelies |
Insults |
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Convent |
(V) To summon before a court |
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Conventicle |
A clandestine or illegal religious
meeting |
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Cope |
1) A long silken cloak worn as an ecclesiastical
vestment |
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Coping tank |
A tall narrow conical hat |
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Copulative |
Forming a connected whole |
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A greedy or rapacious person |
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Cornleader |
A carter of grain |
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Corporace,
corporas |
A cloth laid on the altar on which the
chalice and paten are placed |
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Corporal |
N) A cloth on which consecrated hosts are
laid or which is used to wrap them |
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Breast |
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Covetousness |
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Courser |
A war-horse |
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Courtesan |
A member of the Papal Curia |
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Cousin-germain, Cousin-german |
A first cousin |
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A very large book, which can only be read
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A blowhard or boaster |
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Cramp-ring |
A ring blessed by the King on Good
Friday, believed to be a protection against cramps, fits etc. |
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Crayer |
A small trading ship |
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Criminous
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Criminal; relating to crime |
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Marked with a cross; having take the
cross as a crusader |
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Croisy |
To bestow the cross upon someone, i.e. to
declare him a crusader |
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Croysies |
Crusaders |
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Cruelty |
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Burden |
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Currier |
One whose trade is the preparation and dyeing of
leather |
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Customable
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Customary or habitual |
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Dag |
A pistol |
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Damnified
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Damaged or injured |
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Damp |
A state of stupefaction |
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Darnel |
A weed of cornfields, (Lolium temulentum), also known as cockle or tares, and referred
to by Jesus in Matthew c. 13 v.24-30. |
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Dastard
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A coward |
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Decretal |
Originally, a letter written by a Pope in response
to a query; later, any papal decree or document |
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Deduce
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1) To declare or describe |
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Deme, Demen |
Judge |
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Demi-lance |
A short-shafted lance |
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Demurrer |
In law, a plea that the facts alleged do
not amount to a tort or crime; loosely, any legal objection |
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A naturalized citizen |
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To despatch a messenger |
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Descant |
In shift of
descant = changing the argument |
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Detour
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Debtor |
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Detour |
Debtor |
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Deturbate |
To cast down or thrust out |
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Didrachma |
A two-drachma coin |
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Dignation |
The act of a superior honouring or recognizing an
inferior |
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Dimissory
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A letter from a bishop recommending
someone as fit for ordination or ecclesiastical office |
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To strike, beat |
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The matins of the Service for the dead,
beginning Dirige, Domine, Deus meus, in
conspectu tuo viam meam. |
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Dirt-dauber |
A plasterer esp. one who uses mud to make
wattle-and-daub walls |
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Debate |
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Discommodity |
Disadvantage |
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Disgarnish |
To deprive of |
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Dishonest |
To defile |
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Disme |
A 10% tax or charge |
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Disparkle,
disperkle |
To scatter or disperse |
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Dispensator |
One who dispenses or distributes goods |
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Disperkle |
To scatter, disperse |
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Disple |
To punish |
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Disseize |
To dispossess |
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Dissever |
To separate |
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Dissimule |
To deceive by hiding one's true feelings
or intentions |
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Distain |
Dishonour |
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Distinction |
A division or section of a book or
document |
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Many, several |
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A woman scholar |
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Judgement |
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Domesmen |
Judges |
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An honorary or temporary member of a
religious order |
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Donative |
A benefice which can be bestowed by the
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A dotty-headed person |
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Draft |
Spent brewing grains used as animal feed |
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Draught |
A privy (US: bathroom) |
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An incompetent thief |
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A kind of trumpet |
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A large basket or barrel for holding dry
goods |
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Doubt |
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A state of bewilderment; In his dumps = reduced to silence |
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Ear |
To plough |
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Earlich |
Early |
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Eftsoons |
Soon afterwards, immediately |
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Eghenen
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Eyes |
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A diplomatic mission |
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Emblemish |
To damage or disfigure |
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Embull |
To seal |
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An ant |
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Government or dominion |
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To grant or bestow something; to be endued with = to have |
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Enduing |
Endowing |
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To destroy |
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To assign a fief of property or office to
someone |
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To say that something is grievous |
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Engrossed |
Written down |
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Enmious
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Hostile |
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Ensample |
Example |
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Ensue |
To follow |
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Assiduous in learning |
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Entitle |
To write down a properly edited version
of something |
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To surround |
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An atheist |
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The prophet Isiah |
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Riches obtained by plunder |
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Eschew |
Renounce, reject |
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Escript |
A written decree or writ |
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Spy |
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Estall |
To pay by installments |
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Pagans |
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To nullify |
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Evangely,
Evangelies |
The Gospels |
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The day before a feast day |
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Even-christened |
Fellow-Christians |
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Everichone
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Each one |
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A person under examination, either as
witness or accused |
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Summarize |
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Excheat |
Confiscation of property, or encroachment
on the privileges of another |
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Excoriate |
To flay |
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Asked |
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A pension or allowance of money |
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To remove an office or responsibility
from someone |
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Exorable |
Capable of being moved by pity or prayer |
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Exornate |
To embellish or exaggerate |
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Experiment
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To examine or test |
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Expugn |
To conquer or overcome |
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A papal decree not included in the
standard list |
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A façade or sham |
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Facinorous |
Extremely wicked |
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Fact |
Deed |
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Factor |
An agent or deputy |
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Faggot
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A bundle of firewood |
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Broken or destroyed |
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A shrine |
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A bundle or parcel |
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Farmary |
An infirmary |
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Farmer |
1) A bailiff2) a tenant or lessee |
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Weariness, long drawn-out effort |
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Fatue |
A taboo word in Biblical times;
"Whosoever shall say, Fatue, shall be in danger of hell fire."
(Matt. 5. 23) |
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A patron, supporter or abettor |
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Filthiness |
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In feoffer's
hold: Literally, held as a
feudal possession; metaphorically, as here, borrowed from someone else |
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Feoffment |
Under the feudal system, the action of
assigning lands to someone; or, the legal right to the lands so assigned |
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A weekday |
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Ferula |
A flat piece of wood used for punishing
schoolchildren |
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Fet
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Fetched |
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Fetch |
(V) To steal by fraud or cunning |
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To symbolize |
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A house in which a fire is regularly lit
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Very wicked |
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Fleer |
To sneer or mock |
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Flewet |
A blow |
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Flight-shot |
The distance an arrow can be shot from a bow |
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Floten
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Flown |
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Rushed |
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A defeat |
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Foins |
Trimmings of marten fur |
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(A) Foolish |
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An ancestor |
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Foreface |
Preface |
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Forefact |
A criminal accusation |
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Forefend |
To prevent |
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Foreshield |
To prevent, avert |
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Foreslack |
To neglect |
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Foreslow |
To delay |
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Forfend |
To prevent |
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Form |
A bench |
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Forward |
A contract or agreement |
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A maker of moulded metal objects |
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Foundment |
Basis, foundation |
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A basket |
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Frater wall |
The wall of the refectory in a monastery |
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Fraught |
Filled with; (of a ship) fully laden. |
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Fray |
To frighten |
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Fray-bug |
An imaginary object of fear, bogey-man,
etc. |
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Freedom |
An area in or around a city, whose inhabitants
had certain privileges or exemptions from taxation which prevailed elsewhere.
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Frail |
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Fretted |
1) Worn, rubbed |
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A dance step or caper |
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A dress in Dutch or German style |
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Fulleden |
Baptised |
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Fullen |
To baptise |
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Fuller |
A person whose occupation is the cleaning
and preparation of newly-woven cloth |
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Angry, irascible |
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Equipment |
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A coarse cloth of cotton and linen mixed |
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Fustigation |
Flogging |
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(V) To pledge |
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Gainstand |
To oppose |
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Gang-Monday
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The Monday before Ascension Thursday
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To gag at or be unable to swallow |
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To make something happen |
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Garboil |
Commotion, disturbance |
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Gardeviance |
A treasure chest, or collection of
valuables |
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Garner |
A granary |
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Got |
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A worthless trinket |
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Gaude |
A public performance or display |
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Ghostly |
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Guile, dishonesty |
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Gilten
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To offend against |
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A mechanism |
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A weapon consisting of a short, broad
blade fixed to a long handle |
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Glaverer |
A flattering deceiver |
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Glavering |
Flattering, deceiving |
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To smear with paint |
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Gleve |
The winning-post of a race |
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To explain, or more often distort, the
meaning of a text; to speak deceitfully |
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Glossary |
A commentary or explanation |
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Gloss-writer |
A writer of commentaries, or a
spin-doctor |
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Gnatho |
A flattering
parasite |
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Goff |
In a barn
which is divided into bays by internal projections from the walls, a goff is the amount of grain which will
fir into one of the bays |
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Gossopry
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The relationship of God-parent and
God-child |
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Set firmly, grafted |
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Gra-mercies |
Thank you very much |
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Grope |
To find out someone's business or secrets by
cunning |
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Groundsel |
A door-sill or threshold |
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Gyves |
Leg-irons, fetters |
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Hale |
To drag away |
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Hanaper
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An office of the court of chancery, which
collected fees for sealing and registration of documents |
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Handfast |
A firm grasp |
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Hand-fast |
To hold tightly |
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Hanger |
A short sword hung from the belt |
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Hastler |
A cook's assistant, who turned the spit for
roasting meat. |
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Hay-golph |
A haystack |
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Hearse |
A wooden framework carrying a large number of
candles, hangings etc., borne over a coffin. |
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Heave-offering
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An offering which
is held up high by the priest for the people to see |
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Helme-sheaves |
Bundles of straw |
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Hem |
Them |
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Her
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Their |
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Heren |
Theirs |
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To worship |
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Commandment |
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Was named |
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A kind of falcon (Falco subbuteo) |
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Held |
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Holocaust |
A sacrifice where the entire animal is
burnt (not just the inedible bits, as was more usual) |
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Holp, Holpen |
Helped |
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Holydeme |
Holiness |
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Friendly, familiar, over-familiar |
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To confer honour on something |
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A Brothel |
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Whores |
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Horsed up |
Pulled up on a man's back or a frame, to
be whipped |
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Hostelar |
The landlady of an inn |
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(N) The |
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Secret, secrecy |
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Huddipeak |
A blockhead |
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Hundred |
A subdivision of a county |
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Hutching |
Literally: crouching or bowing low.
Figuratively: with abject humility |
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Hold |
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An instance of dishonest exaggeration |
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Hypotyposis |
A vivid description of a scene |
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I |
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The thirteenth or fifteenth day of the
month |
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Negligence or laziness |
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To jeer or mock |
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Helplessness |
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Imbrued |
Stained with blood |
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Adoption as a heir |
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Immanity |
Monstrous cruelty |
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Immarcessible |
Incorruptible |
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Immission |
Insertion |
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A child |
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Impanate |
Embodied in bread |
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Importable |
Unbearable |
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Importable |
Unbearable |
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Imposthume |
An abscess |
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Impotent |
Enfeebled |
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Impotionate |
To poison |
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Impropriate |
Assigned |
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Unfitness, disqualification |
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Full of anger |
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Incommodity |
Disadvantage |
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Incontinency |
Lechery |
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Incontinent, Incontinently |
Immediately |
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To make a formal promise or contract |
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Indiction |
A period of fifteen years |
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Indifferency |
Impartiality |
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Indurate |
Hardened, stubborn or callous |
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Induration |
Hardening |
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To slip in edgeways |
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To make infamous |
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Infect |
Imperfect |
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Infeoff |
To assign a fief of property or office to
someone |
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Infer |
To state or bring forward as an argument |
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Infestine |
Troublesome, annoying |
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Inspiral |
Giving life to |
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Instant |
Insistent |
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Instantly |
Insistently |
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An interdict, i.e. a punishment laid by
the church on a town etc., prohibiting any church service from being held
there |
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Intermit |
To interrupt |
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Interrogatory |
A question formally put to a witness. |
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Interturb |
To disturb or interrupt |
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Intestine |
Internal |
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To attack |
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Invitory |
A prayer or verse of the Bible recited at
the beginning of a church service |
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Involve |
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The prophet |
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A jacket with metal plates or chain-mail
sewn to it |
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A privy (U.S: bathroom) |
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A story-teller |
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A low scoundrel |
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Jurate,
Jurat |
A lay magistrate or alderman, A sworn witness |
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Kalends |
The first day of the month |
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Kele |
To satisfy hunger or thirst |
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Key-clog |
A piece of wood tied to a key |
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Knack |
A small or trifling article |
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Knapskal |
A kind of helmet |
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The rosary, usually the full 15 decades |
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Landloper |
A renegade or fugitive |
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Lanthorn |
A lantern |
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Wrapped, clothed |
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Brass or bronze |
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Praise |
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Ceremonial washings which were part of a
royal levée |
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A cesspit |
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Lend |
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Leasing |
Lying |
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A reading |
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Believe |
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Leefull |
Lawful |
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Leese |
To surrender or be deprived of |
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Leet |
A court held by the lord of a manor to
try minor offences and disputes between tenants |
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Leeue |
A
leeue Lord = O Lord in whom we believe |
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Lawful |
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Of or relating to a Papal legate |
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Legerdemain |
Trickery |
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A lover |
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Leaper |
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Pasture |
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Lesing |
(A) False (V) Lying |
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Lesser |
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To hinder or prevent (also past tense and
noun) |
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Letter reverential |
A letter from a bishop recommending
someone as fit for ordination or ecclesiastical office |
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Faith or confidence |
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Ignorant or futile |
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A leopard |
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Libel |
A document or certificate |
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In Roman times, an official who attended
a magistrate and carried out his orders to arrest, flog, execute etc.
malefactors |
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To tell outrageous lies |
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Lieger |
The holder of a feudal lordship or office |
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Lieutenant-criminal |
A chief of police |
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Livelihood |
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Lie |
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Likely |
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Limbo, in Catholic theology a state
without either the torments of Hell or the bliss of Heaven, occupied by the
souls of unbaptized children and virtuous pagans. |
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Limiting |
Begging |
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Limitour |
A begging friar |
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1. (N) A strip of cloth |
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Little |
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Little Ease |
A prison cell too small to sit, stand or
lie down in. |
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Livelihood |
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A handful of hay or straw; by extension a
quantity of anything (OED); in modern Irish slang, a large quantity; which
seems to be closer to the meaning here. |
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A low scoundrel |
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Ritual washing |
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The Sunday after Easter |
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Gained, profited |
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Powerful desire ? not necessarily sexual |
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Telling outrageous lies |
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To mash or chop up |
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Mail |
A travelling-bag |
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Mainprise, Mainprize |
1) A surety or guarantor |
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A trouble-maker |
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Makebate |
A lie designed to stir up trouble for
someone |
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Insolent |
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Mall |
A heavy hammer |
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A state of doubt or |
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Fine white bread |
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Manducation |
Nourishment; usually spiritual, via the
Eucharist |
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Maniple |
1) A troop of soldiers |
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Manqueller |
A murderer |
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Mansuetude |
Gentleness |
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Hebrew name of a false god mentioned in
Dan. xi 38. |
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A tax paid by a vassal to his lord on the
marriage of his (i.e. the vassal's) daughter |
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Mark |
Silver, or unspecified: Thirteen
shillings and fourpence in money |
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Market-stead |
Market-place |
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Marmoset |
A grotesque painting or statue |
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Masses-trecenaries |
Series of three hundred masses |
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Maugre |
Despite |
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Maumet, Mawmet |
An idol |
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Maundement |
Commandment |
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Maundy |
The Last Supper |
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Idolatry |
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Confusion |
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Mecock |
An effeminate weakling |
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Meed |
Any valuable item or reward |
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Meet |
Suitable |
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Household |
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To fine |
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Mercement |
A fine or imposition |
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Mercery-ware |
Fine cotton, velvet or silk goods; the
stock-in-trade of a mercer |
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Mere |
Pure, complete or unmixed |
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Merilich |
Merrily |
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Mess |
A group of people sitting together at a meal |
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Mete |
Mete
done = should do |
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Mickle |
Great |
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Millian |
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Minever |
A kind of fur used for trimming or edging
clothing |
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Minish |
To diminish |
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Ministratoriously |
In the capacity of an administrator. |
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To distort the meaning of something in
support of an argument |
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Miser |
A wretch |
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Misprision |
Under an Act of Parliament of 1534,
misprision was the crime of refusing to swear an oath acknowledging the King
as head of the church |
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Monish |
To admonish or warn |
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Monition |
Instruction, warning |
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Monitory |
Containing a warning or admonishment |
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A Mass said first thing in the morning |
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1) May |
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May |
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A young mule |
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A long-established but false belief, an
old but mistaken custom (opposed to sumpsimus) |
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A document proving ownership or
entitlement to something |
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Munition |
A fortification |
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Murrain |
Cattle plague or other epidemic animal disease |
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Murrey |
A purplish-red colour |
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Great |
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Especially |
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An aromatic oil extracted from the
spikenard plant (Nardostachys
grandiflora) |
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Watercress (the flower now called
nasturtium was not known in |
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Wicked |
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No, not, nor, neither |
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A cow-herd |
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Will not |
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To take |
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Destruction |
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Nipped
a great number so near = squeezed many people so
painfully |
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Harmful |
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Will not |
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Note |
A mark or characteristic |
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Nother |
Neither |
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To train or educate |
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Annoying, troublesome |
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Nourished, brought up |
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Obits |
Masses for the dead |
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Oblation |
Literally, an offering, which can
signify: |
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Oblocutor |
One who contradicts or abuses someone |
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Formal sealing or approval of a contract
or other such document |
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Calling on God to witness that what you
say is true |
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Obtrectation |
Abuse, calumny |
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Happening |
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Something which leads or causes a person
to commit sin |
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Offension |
Injury or damage |
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To lay an obligation on someone |
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Onyx |
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1) Infamy, shame |
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Oppugn |
To fight against |
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Ostent |
A wondrous event or miracle |
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Ouch |
A gold or jewelled brooch or buckle |
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Foreign |
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Out-scape |
A way of escape |
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Crosswise, either literally or
figuratively |
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A table or stall for selling oysters ?
used contemptuously for a communion table because it was the same shape |
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A scoundrel |
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Packing |
Fraudulent dealing |
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Paction |
An alliance |
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A canton of Switzerland |
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Painstaking |
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Pair |
To impair or harm |
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Palfrey |
A small horse |
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Pall |
A kind of scarf or stole worn by a
bishop; used figuratively to mean the office of bishop. |
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Palsgrave |
A Count Palatine, i.e. a ruler who has
been granted full powers in his fief by the Holy Roman Emperor |
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A pagan or other non-Christian |
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Pantofle |
Expensive, highly decorated slippers; Stood upon their pantofles = Stood on their dignity |
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Alternative name for the two books of
Chronicles, in the Bible (in some editions, called the third & fourth
books of Kings) |
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Parcel |
A part |
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Pardon-beads |
Rosary beads
blessed so that those using them would have an indulgence |
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Parochian |
A parish priest |
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Partlet |
An article of clothing worn about the
neck or upper chest; a bib or dickey. |
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Passover feast |
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Pash |
To smash |
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Pasquil |
A satire or lampoon |
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Patin, patine, paten |
A dish on which the communion bread is
placed |
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Pattens |
Wooden overshoes |
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To cut open the belly |
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Pax |
A small bas-relief of the crucifixion on a handle,
kissed by the officiating priest and then the congregation at Mass |
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Paynim |
A pagan or Muslim |
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Pelf |
1) Worthless baubles |
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Pelt |
To address with insults or reproaches |
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1) A penitent |
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Penner |
A case for holding writing pens |
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Perhaps |
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Perdurable |
Long-lasting |
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Peregrine |
A pilgrim |
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Perfitlich |
Perfectly |
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Perk |
To behave presumptuously |
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Permixt |
Unified |
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Perpend |
To consider |
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Person |
A parson |
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Hypocritical displays of virtue |
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Poitou, in |
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A toll barrier |
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A coat made of animal skins or coarsely
tanned leather |
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Pill |
To rob, pillage |
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Pilled |
Tonsured i.e. having the top of the head
shaved |
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The rack or similar instrument of torture |
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Pin-fold |
A pound for stray animals |
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A small box in which consecrated hosts
are carried about. |
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An official document or proclamation |
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Plaice-mouth |
A pursing of the lips |
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Plat |
A) A plough |
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Complete |
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Plete |
To argue one's case |
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A lead ball on a cord |
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Plumps |
A compact group of people |
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A maker of laces for fastening clothes |
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Points |
Laces for fastening clothes |
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Poising |
Weighing |
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To extort money from |
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Polling |
Shaving the top of the head |
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The robes of a bishop or cardinal |
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The corn-cockle (Lychnis githago), a weed
of wheat fields |
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A pig |
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Port |
Appearance |
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Porthose |
To canonize as a saint |
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Portmen |
Members of the town council |
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Portues |
A breviary or book of liturgy |
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Portuous |
(Of a saint) Included in the standard
breviary or calendar |
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A question or proposal |
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Post |
A post-rider i.e. a man who carried
letters from one post station to the next |
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Post alone |
Entirely alone |
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Postcommon |
The postcommunion, a prayer of
thanksgiving said near the end of the mass, after the communion |
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Postil |
A note or comment on a document |
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A ruler, potentate |
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Of a metal object, decorated by embossing
or engraving |
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Practised |
Worked on |
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Præmunire |
The crime in English law of appealing to,
or acknowledging, a power outside |
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Wickedness |
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The revenue of a specific plot of land
belonging to an ecclesiastical foundation; a prebendary was the priest to which a prebend was allocated
or prebendated |
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Prefe |
Proof |
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Pregnancy |
Fullness |
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Premonish |
To speak of beforehand, to warn |
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Preparature |
Preparation |
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Prepense |
Inclined towards |
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Prescript |
A written command |
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President |
An example to be followed |
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Prest money |
Money given to a recruit on enlistment;
"the King's shilling" |
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Presul |
A prelate or bishop |
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Pretensed |
Pretended, falsely claimed |
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Pretermit |
To leave out, omit |
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Preue, preve |
Proof |
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To shoot an arrow |
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Prick-louse |
A tailor |
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Prick-song |
Vocal music in more than one part or with
an accompaniment |
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Primer and accidence |
The elements of reading and writing |
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Priuilich |
Privately |
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Privation |
Deprivation, removal from office |
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Privily |
Secretly |
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Privy |
1) Secret |
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Plausibly, convincingly |
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Probation |
Conclusive argument, proof |
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Problem |
To
keep a problem = to discuss an
academic proposition |
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Proclive |
Inclined towards |
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Prodition |
Treachery |
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Proem |
A prologue or introduction |
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Profect |
Profit |
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Professor |
One who proclaims his faith in the true
religion |
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Prolation |
A phrase or sentence spoken continuously,
without a pause |
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Prolix |
Long-winded |
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Proll |
To prowl or rob |
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Prolocutor |
1) a spokesman |
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Promoter |
An informer or unofficial prosecutor |
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Prompt |
Prompt
with = armed with, and very ready to use |
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Prone |
Willing or inclined to do something. |
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Proper |
Special, particular |
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Propone |
To propose |
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Proprietary |
The holder of an ecclesiastical benefice |
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Prorogations |
Postponements |
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Prorogue |
To postpone |
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Proscript |
Proscribed |
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Prosopopœia |
An orator's trick of speaking as if in
the voice or person of someone else |
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Proterve |
Stubborn, petulant |
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Protonotary |
A senior papal clerk or envoy |
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Prototypon |
The first or original version of a
document etc. |
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Prove |
To test |
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Provisor |
A person holding the right to be
appointed to an office or benefice when it becomes vacant |
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Provoke |
To invite |
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Writer of Psalms; a title of King David
of Israel and Judah |
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Power |
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Puissant |
Powerful |
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To peck |
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To persecute |
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Pursuivant |
A messenger or agent |
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A quadrangle or courtyard |
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Quail |
To quell, suppress |
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Quarrel |
A cross-bow arrow |
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To dispute or demur |
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Quest |
A court or commission of enquiry |
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Questionary |
At the |
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Questmen |
Members of a commission of enquiry |
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Quick |
Alive, living |
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Quier |
A book |
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Quindecim |
A fifteenth part |
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Quire
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1) A choir |
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Former, formerly |
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A Jewish Rabbi; used contemptuously to
refer to other religious leaders |
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An offensive word in Biblical times;
"Whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the
council:" (Matt. 5. 22) |
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At random |
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To plunder or destroy |
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A measure |
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Rashful
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Rash |
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To scold, abuse verbally |
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Ratle |
To scold, abuse |
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Quick-witted and eloquent |
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Reave |
To rob |
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Receitor? Receptor |
A harbourer of criminals |
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Recluse |
A prison cell |
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Recordative |
Commemorative |
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Recule |
To retreat |
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Recure |
To restore to health |
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Recusation |
An appeal based on the alleged partiality
of a judge |
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Recuse |
To reject someone's authority to do
something |
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Advise |
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Disprove |
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Refocillation |
Revival, refreshment |
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Refract,
Refractorious |
Stubborn |
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Refricate |
To open up a wound |
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Refuse |
To reject |
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Rule |
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Register |
A keeper of records, registrar. |
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Repeat, repeated |
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To return to one's original beliefs |
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Stages in the arguing of a case before a
court i.e. |
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Repugn |
To oppose, fight against |
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Strictly, the decision of the Roman
emperor on a case referred to him by a governor or judge; more loosely, any
formal written command by a person in authority |
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Residentiary |
The canons of a cathedral |
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Resperse |
To accuse |
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Respond |
A responsary, i.e. a hymn or prayer sung or
spoken in turn, by a single voice, and the
choir or congregation alternately |
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Retcheth
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Reck, care themselves with |
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Retract |
A military retreat |
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To don vestments for a religious ceremony |
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Revestry |
The vestry of a church |
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The River Rhine |
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A linen surplice |
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Rocker |
A child's nurse, who rocks the cradle |
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A crucifix |
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Chanting the litany of the saints during
a procession |
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A crucifix |
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Rood-loft |
A loft gallery above and behind a
rood-screen |
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Rood-screen |
A screen, usually richly decorated or
carved, at the end of the nave of a church before the altar. |
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Rood-sollor |
A rood-loft (qv). |
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Room |
Place, position of authority |
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Rooten |
Dig up with the snout, like a pig in
filth |
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Trimming the hair to the same length all
the way around |
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Rouse |
To rest or sleep |
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To whisper |
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Royal |
An English gold coin, worth ten shillings |
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Ruff
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A state of excitement or pride |
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Ruffler |
A fine-clothed but useless fellow |
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Ruffling |
Showing off |
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A fugitive scoundrel or vagrant ruffian |
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Lord
of Sabaoth = Lord of Hosts, a title of God |
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In Catholic practice, various things
which resemble sacraments but are not one of the seven; as, the sign of the
Cross; blessing of holy water etc. |
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Sacramentary |
One who holds "heretical" (i.e. not Catholic) views on the Eucharist |
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Sacring |
The consecration of the Mass |
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To assail |
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Say |
A fine cloth of silk and wool woven together |
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Scathe
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Injury, damage |
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Shall |
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A soldier sent out to see what the enemy
is doing, a scout |
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Scutage |
A tax paid instead of military service |
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Eight bushels |
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Searcher |
A minor customs official, who searches for
contraband |
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Sechen
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Seek |
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Secluding |
Prohibiting |
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Say |
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Lordship or dominion; or the lands over
which this is held |
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Sein |
Say |
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Seised |
Of land or property: assigned or granted
to someone |
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Seizin-taking |
Taking possession of a token of ownership
e.g. the keys of a house. |
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Certain |
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Similar, similarly |
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As a judicial sentence |
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Sententiary |
A person who has compiled a compendium of
theological opinions. |
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A tomb |
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Confiscation of the income of a benefice |
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Angel-like, a title specifically given to
St. Bonaventure (1221-1274) |
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Servage |
Bondage, serfdom |
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Separate or individual |
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Severally |
Separately or individually |
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A servant who lays the table, serves the
meal etc. |
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See |
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Shed |
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Share-Thursday |
Holy, or Maundy Thursday ? the Thursday
before Easter |
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Shaveling |
A tonsured monk |
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Shawm |
A musical instrument resembling an oboe. |
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A cloth-shearer |
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Sheave |
To collect, gather up |
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Shelt-toad |
A toad from
the river Scheldt |
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Shent |
Ruined, destroyed |
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Shere-Thursday |
Maundy or Holy Thursday, i.e. the
Thursday before Easter |
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Shew-bread |
Special loaves of bread which were placed
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Shog |
To shake vigorously |
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Shone |
Shoes |
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False and malicious |
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Shrift |
Absolution |
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Shriuing |
Confession |
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Shullen |
Shall |
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Shulne |
Shall |
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Sink |
A sewer or drain |
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Sith
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Since |
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Sith
that |
Provided that |
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Sithe |
Times |
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Sithen |
So that |
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Sithence |
Since |
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To be of importance |
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Encouraging others to sin by bad example |
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Sle |
Slay |
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Slean |
Slay |
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Sleight, sleighty |
Deceitful |
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Deceitful |
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Baggy trousers |
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Slorried |
Smeared with dirt |
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Slowen |
Slain |
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An emerald |
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Struck |
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A kind of horse |
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Snag |
To jeer at, nag, abuse |
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Snarled |
Strangled, or tortured with a twisted
rope |
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To
take snuff = to take offence |
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Boiled |
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The area within which a particular court
or grand jury had authority |
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Sultan |
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Soldier-fare |
Military service |
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Solicitor |
An agent or deputy |
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Solution |
An answer or explanation |
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A bailiff of an ecclesiastical court, who
summons people to attend |
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A formally appointed deputy or
representative |
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Soothfastness |
Constancy in holding to the truth |
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Sophistry |
False or dishonest arguments |
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Sorbonical
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After the fashion of the Sorbonne, or
University of Paris |
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A cobbler or shoemaker |
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To bolt down, fasten tightly |
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Sparsed |
Spread |
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Specialty
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A particular point of argument |
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Splent |
The elbow-piece in a suit of armour |
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Spouse-breach |
Adultery |
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Spoushod |
Marriage |
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A young man |
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To injure a horse by excessive use of
spurs |
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Spurging |
Oozing of matter, fæces etc. from the
body |
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Spurn |
Kick or trample underfoot |
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St |
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Staple |
A, or the only, legally licensed market for wool for
purchase by foreigners |
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Starting-hole |
Literally, a hole in which a hunted
animal can hide; metaphorically, a loophole, or "get-out" |
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To place among the stars |
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Sternship |
Haughtiness |
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Went (the word is principally used to
describe Christ's ascension into heaven) |
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Stocks |
The name of a market for meat and fish in the
City of London |
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Stover |
Fodder, animal food |
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Strict, rigorous, narrow, closely
confined. |
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Strumpet |
A whore |
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Obstinate |
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To serve |
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Suffragan |
An assistant or subordinate bishop |
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Suffrage |
1) An assistant |
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To say |
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Sugget |
A saying |
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Requirement |
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A bailiff of an ecclesiastical court, who
summons people to attend |
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Sum-papal |
A summary of papal edicts on a particular
topic |
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Sumpsimus |
A new but correct belief or custom
(opposed to mumpsimus) |
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Sumpter |
A pack-horse |
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A slab of stone consecrated for use as an
altar when placed on a table etc. |
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Superaltare |
The ritual of profession as a Benedictine
monk |
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Supererogation |
In works
of supererogation: in Catholic theology,
the performance of good works beyond what God commands or requires; this
builds up a store of grace which the Church can dispense in the form of
indulgences etc. |
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Supple |
To soften |
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Supposition |
An argument for a proposition |
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Supputation |
A system of calculation |
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Surname |
A nickname |
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Sustentation
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Provision of food, drink and other
necessities |
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A disease marked by high fever and
copious sweating |
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Sweuen |
A false vision or fake miracle |
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Liquid filth |
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Swinge |
Power or authority; in phrase To bear the swinge = to have power or authority |
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Swingel of a flail |
A flail was an implement for threshing corn,
consisting of a long handle or staff and a shorter stick, the swingle,
loosely tied to the end of the staff so it could swing freely. The thresher held
the flail by the staff and beat the sheaves of corn with the swingle to
dislodge the grains from the straw. |
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Synagogue
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A church or abbey notorious for corrupt
practices or false doctrines, blasphemy etc.; An assembly of false religion
or blasphemy |
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Synecdoche |
A figure of speech where the part is
taken for the whole, or vice versa |
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Tallage |
An arbitrary tax levied by special order |
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Tally
for his own cates |
To obtain food and other necessities on
credit |
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Delay |
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Attend with |
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Rash, reckless |
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Temporalty |
The laity |
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To treat with tenderness or affection |
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Tent |
To clean a wound with a small roll of
cloth |
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Tenths |
Tithes |
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Changing sides; denying what one has
previously asserted or vice versa |
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Term
probatory |
A period of time given to a litigant to
prepare his case |
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Terrene |
Of the earth in the sense (1) as opposed
to heavenly or (2) peasant-like, low-class |
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Tertian |
A fever recurring every third day |
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The Promised Land |
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Thilke |
This |
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Then |
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Thoore
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Unharmed |
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A slave |
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Thrasonical |
Boastful [like Thraso, a character in the
play Eunuchus by the Roman playwright Terence] |
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Threnes
of Jeremy |
The book of Lamentations, in the Old
Testament |
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To bless with incense |
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Unstable, ready to fall at a touch ;
Credulous, easily persuaded |
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Fastened his laces |
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A hood or hooded cloak |
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Tipstaff,
Tipstave |
A court usher or bailiff
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Decimated (i.e. every tenth man killed) |
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Titiviller |
The name of a demon in a morality play;
hence, a scoundrel |
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Tituled |
Named |
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To tell outrageous lies |
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Completely destroy |
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To-broken |
Destroyed, torn up |
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In front of |
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Money paid in tolls or taxes |
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Toll-booth |
The name of the town prison in Cambridge and
Edinburgh |
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Tonsure
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A shaven patch on the top of the head |
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To card wool |
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A papal dispensation allowing the holder
to have any number of benefices |
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Exceptional aptitude. |
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A trifle or bauble, a whimsy |
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Written discussion or discourse |
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Trade |
A way of life, moral attitude towards
living |
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Train |
A deception or fraud |
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Transumpt |
(N) A transcript or formal copy of a
record or decree |
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Trauel |
Labour |
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Travail |
1) Labour |
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Travell |
Suffering |
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Traverse |
A dispute or controversy |
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Travise |
A dispute or controversy |
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Wooden shoes, clogs |
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Trencher |
A wooden dish |
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Trental |
A series of thirty requiem masses |
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Well-chosen to deceive |
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Trindles |
A wax taper rolled into a coil |
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A figure of speech |
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Tropical |
Metaphorical |
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Trought |
Truth |
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Trow |
To believe |
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Tucker |
A cloth-fuller or finisher |
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Tuition
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Protection, guardianship |
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Harmoniously |
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Tunned |
Got drunk with |
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A swelling of the abdomen caused by gas
in the intestines or stomach. |
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Vicar, in the sense of appointed
representative |
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Foolish |
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Unlawful |
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Unsuitable |
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Foolish, stupid |
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Unworshipped |
Disrespected |
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Lending or borrowing at (usually
usurious) interest |
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The eighth day after the specified feast
day |
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An extra payment or profit, a perk |
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Vantage |
Advantage |
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Vastation
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Devastation, destruction |
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An outer fortification |
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The vanguard |
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Verament |
Truly |
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Verilich
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Truly |
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Very |
True, truly; pure |
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Viage |
Voyage |
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Vicegerent |
A person appointed by the king with full
authority to act on his behalf |
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Vidame |
A layman who acted for a bishop in legal and
business matters |
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Vie crowns |
A gambling game by tossing coins for double or
quits |
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Vilipend
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To regard, or treat, a person as being
vile or worthless |
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Vility |
Vileness |
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An ornamental border of vine leaves in a
manuscript |
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A mask or outward show |
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To spoil or wear out |
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A spoken word |
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To depart from |
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The members of a municipal band, employed
by the city to play on public occasions |
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Welsh |
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Wan hope |
Despair |
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Wanyand
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An imprecation or curse |
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A lock; prison |
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An area of land enclosed for breeding game
animals or birds. |
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Wast
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Year, day and wast = "a prerogative
whereby the sovereign was entitled to the profits for a year and a day of a
tenement held by a person attainted of petty treason or felony, with the
right of wasting the tenement" (OED) |
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Waster |
A wooden sword used for fencing practice |
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Waxen |
Grown up |
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Weasand
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The throat |
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A piece of woven cloth, as it comes from
the loom |
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A cloak or costume |
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Ween |
Suppose, believe |
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Weet |
To know |
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Prosperity |
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1) to know |
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A wheel-maker |
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Where-through |
Through which |
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A whirlpool |
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Whist |
To whisper |
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Wild he, nild he |
Whether he wanted or not |
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Will-works |
Works performed by the human will,
without divine grace |
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Will-worship |
Worship of God in a form or way not
authorised by Him (i.e. different from those of the speaker) |
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An auger or gimlet |
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1) To know |
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Wist |
Knew |
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To know |
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Witty |
Sensible, intelligent |
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Would |
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Inhabitant |
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A short sword or large knife, used by
huntsmen for disembowelling and cutting up game |
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Woodness |
Madness, violent anger |
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Woolward |
To
go woolward = to wear coarse woollen cloth next the skin, as a penance or
punishment |
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Know |
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Revenge |
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Wrakers |
Those who wreak vengeance |
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To work, do something |
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To distort |
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Thankfully |
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Bade |
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A Mass said on the anniversary of
someone's death |
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To give |
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A gift |
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Equally |
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You |
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Ywit |
Know |
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Zif
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Thus; or as phrase zif
all = although |
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