leonina (s.xiii2/4)

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leonina (s.xiii2/4)

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[ FEW: *5,255a leo; Gdf: 10,71c leonin 1; GdfC: ; TL: ; DEAF: ; DMF: ; TLF: ; OED:  Leonine n.1 / leonine adj.2 and n.2; MED:  leonina n.; DMLBS: 1585c leoninus ]
leonine;  leoxime  
ls(loanword: Latin )
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1med.pathol.leontiasis, an overgrowth of the facial bones, once considered a form of leprosy
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  totes les espieces de lepre sont incurables, et meimement leonine et allopice  i 249
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  quatre manieires de lepre sunt: l'une est apelé alopicia, l'autre elephancia, la terce leonina, e la quarte tiriasis [...] leonina est de colore ruge e si a nun de liun  i 86
( MS: s.xv )  ainsi sunt il .iiij. maneres de liepre. E si sunt appellez elefantie, alopice, leoxime e ciriassis  100.S122
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