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  • obsolete Rule.

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  • verb Obsolete spelling of rule.

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Examples

  • Jesus rewle and guyde your counsellis, to his glorie, your eternall conforte, and to the consolatioun of your brethrene.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • The boy was instructed to "doo welle, lerne well, and be of good rewle and disposycion," and Gloys was asked to "bydde hym that he be not to hasty of takyng of orderes that schuld bynd him."

    Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait

  • And there he stondith nowe in the ferye place he tokeneth a thousand as by this rewle.

    The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902

  • [Sidenote: The third case of the craft; an example.] ¶ Her {e} he puttes þe thryde rewle, þe quych is þis. yf þ {o} u wel

    The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902

  • Thou most þat þis rewle holdyþe note but wher {e} þ {ere} ben 2 articuls and no mo of þe quych ayther of hem hase but on figur {e} significatyf.

    The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902

  • ¶ If it stonde in the secu {n} de place of þe rewle, he betokens ten {e} tymes hym selfe, as þis figur {e} 2 here 20 tokens ten tyme hym selfe,

    The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902

  • Reede ofte on þis rolle, & rewle þ {o} u þer aftir; 8

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • "Theruppon the wif of the said Sir Roger Hastynges cam into the said chirche & said unto the said Rauff, 'Woo worthe man this day! the chirche wolbe susspended and thou slayn, withoute thou flee awey and gette the oute of his sighte' wheruppon the said Rauff Jenore flede oute of the said chirche by a bakke doore and cam to Pykeryng, and petyously desired of the said Roger Chalmley that in so muche as he was the Stewardes deputie there and hadde rewle of the Countre, that he myght be in suertie of his liff."

    The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923

  • And so mych is twenty þowsant tymes 3 thousant, ¶ And þis rewle is gen {er} all {e} for all {e} man {er} of articuls, Whethir þai be hundryth or þowsant; but þ {o} u most know well þe craft of þe wryrchyng {e} in þe tabull {e} [* leaf 163a] or þou know to do þus in þi mynde aftur þis rewle.

    The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902

  • [Sidenote: Digit by digit is easy.] ¶ Her {e} he teches a rewle as þou hast afor {e} to m {u} ltiplie a digit be anoþ {er}, as yf þou wolde wete qwat is sex tymes 6. þou [* leaf 161a] schalt wete by þe rewle þat I taȝt þe befor {e}, yf þou haue mynde

    The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902

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