Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
saint . - noun A girdle or belt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A girdle.
- noun obsolete A saint.
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Examples
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And seint Poul him self was there a physicyen, for to kepen mennes bodies in hele, before he was converted: and aftre that, he was phisicien of soules.
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And seint Poul him self was there a physicyen, for to kepen mennes bodies in hele, before he was converted: and aftre that, he was phisicien of soules.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Þe ancre ne hire meiden ne plohien ` nane´ worldliche gomenes ed te þurle · ne ne ticki to {} gederes · foR ase seið seint Beornard. vnwurðe þing is to euch gastelich mon · ⁊ nomeliche to ancre {;} euch swuch fleschlich {220} froure · ⁊ hit binimeð gastelich þ̵ is wið {} ute met utnume murhðe · ⁊ þ̵ is uuel change as is iseid þruppe.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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"E communde le rey e defend qe feire ne marche ne seient tenuz en cimeter pur honur de seint eglise."
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Nu we sculen heow sceawen hwilc hit is heo {m} for to heren ⁊ nawiht for to ethalden. for seint gregori seið.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Margarete in seint Katryne Ile, there as the great Lady stands, for carvyng and gildyng of them summa c. marcs sterlinge.
Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914
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Shrowisbure and the lord Lile his sone slayne: prynce Edward the kyngs sone was borne: and upon seint Barthilues day was a man of seint
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Than the kyng and his hoste went to Barkhamsted; and after seint
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Also this yere the kyng passid the see to Caleis upon seint
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A Sotelte of our lady sittyng and hir childe in hir lappe, and she holdyng in hir hand a crowne and seint George knelyng on that oo side and seint Denyse on that other side, presentyng the kyng, knelyng to our lady, with this Reason folowyng;
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