• emperik

`A member of the sect among ancient physicians called Empirici, who (in opposition to the Dogmatici and Methodici) drew their rules of practice from experience, to the exclusion of philosophical theory' [OD]. Members of this school relied upon rules of

• questor, questour

ecclesiastical official who offers indulgences in exchange for alms, a pardoner; (b) an ancient Roman magistrate in charge of treasury affairs and of some criminal trials, a quaestor. (a1387) Trev. Higd. StJ-C H.1 4.49 Cherles and pardoneres beeþ i-cleped questores.

• sacerd, sacerdes, sacerdes, -aes, -an

. OE , from L sacerdos . (a) A Christian priest; (b) an ancient Jewish priest; (c) a pagan priest. a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom. Vsp D.14 95/15 Se sacerd sceal þaet folc mid sibbe laeren, & folc sceal mid eadmodnysse heren. c1175(?OE)

• solidus, solid, solidi, solidos, solidus, sol

(abbrev.) sol . L (a) An English shilling; also, a gold coin of ancient Rome; (b) a unit of weight. ?a1160 Peterb.Chron. LdMisc 636 an.1137 He uuan..lx sol. of Aldewingle aelc gaer. (a1387) Trev. Higd. StJ-C H.1 2.313 Romayns hadde

• sicle, cicle, sicles, cicles, siches

, cicles , (error) siches . L siclus , AL ciclus & OF sicle . (a) An ancient unit of weight; (b) an ancient Hebrew unit of currency, a shekel. (a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944 333a/a Ciclus in latyne hatte

• Grẹkish, gerkisc, crekish, crekkish

. OE Grecisc , Greccisc , Crecisc . (a) Of Greece or the Greeks, Grecian; fir , Greek fire; hei , fenugreek; netle , Greek nettle (Urtica pilulifera); se , the Mediterranean or one of its arms; (b) of the

• Grẹk, grec, greik, greck, grekke, grik, gric, gricke, gricken

Greek, inhabitant of Greece; (b) in New Testament usage: a Greek proselyte; ?also, a Hellenized Jew; a gentile; bileved, feithful , a converted gentile; (c) a member of the Greek Orthodox Church; (d) Grekes lond , Greece; Grekes se ,

• Spain(e, spaigne, spanie, speine

parts of Spain in ancient Roman nomenclature; contre (kingdom, lond) of ; spaines erthe , Spain, Spanish soil; further (yonder) , the ancient Roman province of Baetica in south central Spain; hider (neigher) , the ancient Roman province Tarraconensis, covering

• ether, either

, from Gr. The caelum aetherum of ancient cosmology, which surrounds the caelum aereum. [Here the planets have their orbits in everlasting light.] (a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944 105a/b By þat name ethera is vndirstonde al þe space þat is

• flọd-yate, -yeten, -gate

9d. (1376) in Lofvenberg Contrib.Lex. 87 [The said mill and the] flodegates. (1403) in Lofvenberg Contrib.Lex. 87 Flodegates [of the ancient] cornemelne. (1423) Acc.Hollingbourne in Archaeol.Cant.13 562 Item, to a laborer for castyng off the mylpond a bowte the flodgate.

• olimpias, olimpiades

battle or competition; (c) an olympiad, a period of four years between celebrations of the Olympic games, by which the ancient Greeks computed time. a1456(a1402) Trev. Nicod. Add 16165 94b Some tyme þe Greekes maden Ioustes and tournamentes and oþer

• Romanish, romenisce, romean-

romean- . OE romanisc (a) Of ancient Rome or the Empire, Roman; (b) as noun: Romans; (c) as noun: the Latin language. ?c1200 Orm. Jun 1 6902 Herode..wollde ȝemenn himm Þatt he ne waere wreȝedd Biforr þe Romanisshe king Þatt

• Thebẹ, thebea, thebi(e, tebe, tebea, tebie, thebes, thebies, thebei(es, tebes, tebies, tbebes

, thebei(es , tebes , tebies , (error)tbebes . L Thebae & Thebe . (a) One of three ancient cities called Thebes, usu. Boeotian Thebes; toun ; folk ; (b) an inhabitant of Boeotian Thebes. (a1387) Trev. Higd. StJ-C H.1

• Turkeis, turkeies, turgeis, tourkeis

cp. ME Turkeis adj. (a) Turks; also, members of one of the nomadic tribes of the Middle East allied with ancient Rome or Persia; contre of ; (b) with ref. to the third Crusade: members of the Muslim forces; with

• Tuscie, tussie, tuscia, tuschia, thuscia

, ML Thuscia , Thussia . (a) A region or province of west central Italy, Tuscany; (b) the ancient kingdom of Etruria. (a1387) Trev. Higd. StJ-C H.1 5.217 The oost of þe Gothes was i-slawe in Thuscia, and here ledere

• Brit, Brut, Bret, Bruttes, Brettes

, Brettas (pl.). (a) A Celt: specif., Welshman, Breton; (b) lond [OE Bryt-land ], ancient Britain, the British Isles; (c) in names [see Smith PNElem. 1.50]. c1275(?a1200) Lay. Brut Clg A.9 6401 Þer wes moni god Brut. c1275(?a1200) Lay. Brut

• clime, clima

same clyme [Trev.: partie; L climate] of heuyn, then the men of the northe with men of the sowthe. An ancient land measure. (a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944 332a/a Oure grete..deled..þilke in Iugera, dayes, erþes, and þilke in climes..þe clyma

• gelding, gilding, geldins, ~x0021d~elding

dowyn..And syne he warned hys men to goo To chose ther geldyngs gresse. ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes Stockh 10.90 123/2 Take borys greece for þe man, and geldyngis gres for þe woman. (a) A castrated man, a eunuch; a naturally impotent man;

• malvesi(e, malvesei(e, malvasi, malvesẹ, malvesin(e, malveisin, malevesin, mauvesie, mauvesin, malmesie, malmasie, malm(e)sei, malmesin, malvaset, malnesy, -syne

malvesia , malvesinum , malvasetum , malmasia , malmasetum . A sweet wine originally obtained from Napoli di Malvasia in Greece. (1361) in Lofvenberg Contrib.Lex. 68 [One pipe of] malveisyn. (1362) in Lofvenberg Contrib.Lex. 68 Mawvesie. (1379-80) Acc.R.Dur. in Sur.Soc.103

• Greu, greue, grieue, griu, gru(e, grw(e, greu~x0021d~, grev, griv, gowe, greues, grẹes, grece

pl. (oblique) gres . (a) The Greek language, Greek; langage (speche, tonge) of ; (b) an inhabitant of Greece, a Greek; (c) Greece; (d) as adj.: of words, language: Greek; (e) as surname. a1300 I-hereþ nv one Jes-O 29 470