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mescreable (s.xii1)

mescreable (s.xii1)

 
  FEW:  credere 2/ii,1301b Gdf:  mescreable 5,275c GdfC: TL: mescrëable 5,1601 DEAF: DMF:  mécréable  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:

a.

1unbelieving, heathen
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  ki mescreable (Latin: increduli) sunt, ne seient eshalciet en els meesmes  Camb Ps 110.LXV.6
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  Serment est affermement ou niement de acune chose, dount homme est chargé en peril de sa alme de dire verité; et fu purveu pur mescreable gent qe hom dust jurer sour sainctz evangelies Deu pur les maumeries eschure  BRITT ii 212.1
2unbelievable, dubious
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv2/4 )  Quele chose mescreable est ceo juggee vers vous, si Dieu suscite lez mortz?  Actes (B) 224b

s.

theol.unbeliever, heathen
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  li mescreables (Latin: increduli) acertes habiterent en sechedez  Camb Ps 113.LXVII.7
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Saint Lorenz dit al mescreable: 'Ohi, tu, membre de deable [...]'  S Laur ANTS 429

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See also:

creable  mescreance  mescreancie  mescreant  mescreantise  mescreire 
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