Notes and Queries, Number 239, May 27, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 239, May 27, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_Apause_, to check. Foxe, _Acts and Monuments_, vii. 647.; and
Merchant's _Second Tale_, 2093.
_Assemble_, to resemble. Bale's _Image of both Churches_, Part II. p.
378., edit. 1849.
_Beclepe_, to embrace. _The Festyvall_, fol. xxxvi. recto, edit. 1528:
"The ymage--becleped the knyght about the necke, and kyssed hym."
_Bluck_, ...(?) "So the true men shall be hunted and blucked."--_The
Festyvall_, fol. xxvi. recto.
_Boystously_, roughly. "Salome--boystously handled our Lady."--_The
Festyvall_, fol. lxvii. verso.
_Brince_, to introduce, hand out, _propino_. "Luther first brinced to
Germany the poisoned cup of his heresies."--Harding in Bishop Jewel's
_Works_, vol. iv. p. 335., edit. Oxford, 1848.
_Bussing._ "Without the blind bussings of a Papist, may no sin be
solved."--Bishop Bale's _Image of both Churches on the Revelation_, ch.
xiii. p. 431., edit. Cambridge, 1849.
_Croked._ A curious application of this word occurs in _The Festyvall_,
fol. cxxviii. recto: "A croked countenance."
_Daying_, arbitration. Jewel's _Works_, i. 387. See Dr. Jelf's note,
_in loc._
_Dedeful_, operative? "This vertue is dedefull to all Chrysten
People."--_The Festyvall_, fol. clxxii. recto.
_Do_, to do forth; meaning, to proceed with, to go on with, occurs in
_The Festyvall_. fol. viii. verso.
_Domageable_, injurious. _The Festyvall_, fol. cxi. recto: "How
domageable it is to them which use for to saye in theyr bargens and
marchaundyses, makynge to the prejudyce--of their soules."
_Dyssclaunderer_, a calumniator. "To stone hym (Stephen) to deth as for
a dyssclaunderer."--_The Festyvall_, fol. lxx. verso.
_Enclense_, to make clean. _The Festyvall_, fol. lxxxviii. recto.
_Enforcement_, effort? Erasmus' _Enchiridion_, 1533, Rule IV. ch. xii.
{492} _Engrease_, to overfeed. "Riches, wherewithal they are fatted and
engreased like swine."--Foxe's _Acts and Monuments_, v. 615. edit.
1843.
_Ensignement_, ... (?) _The Festyvall_, fol. cliv. recto: "And whan all
the people come so togyder at this ensignement."
_Entrecounter_, to oppose. Brook's _Sermon_, 1553, quoted in Foxe's
_Acts and Monuments_, vol. viii. p. 782.
_Fele._ An application of this word may be quoted, partaking of a
Grecism, unless we mistake: "And whan the people _felte_ the smell
therof."--_The Festyvall_, fol. c. recto.
_Flytterynge_: "lyghtnynge, and not flytterynge."--_The Festyvall_,
fol. xliv. verso, edit. 1528.
NOVUS.
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Minor Notes.
_Inscriptions on Buildings._--The following inscriptions are taken from
buildings connected with the hospital of Spital-in-the-Street, co. Lincoln.
On the chapel:
"FVI A^O D[=N]I 1398 }
NON FVI 1594 } DOM DEI & PAVPERVM.
SVM 1616 }
QVI HANC DEVS HVNC DESTRVET."
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