We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more
chanuesce (s.xii1)
Cite this entry

The form chaniz is a cross reference to the following entry:

chanuesce (s.xii1)

Cite this entry
chaneés;  chienés;  canesce  (chaniz,  chauvesce (l. chanuesce)  Gloss Garland 165)  
  FEW:  canutus 2/i,239a Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF: ∅ DMF:  chenuesse  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  canus 264c

s.

white hair(s), old age, senility: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  desque a veillesce e a chienés (Latin: usque ad senectutem et canos), Deus, ne deguerpisses mei  Camb Ps 124.LXX.18
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  (taking hot baths) entardir fet ensement Chanuesce  Secr abernun 1663
( MS: s.xiii2 )  canities: chaneés  TLL ii 5
( s.xiv2; MS: s.xiv2 )  piles arabikes […] gardent le memorie e si ne suffr[ent] chaniz avant [le] dit age  A-N Med ii 209
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
chaniz