mescreable (s.xii1)

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mescreable (s.xii1)

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[ FEW: 2/ii,1301b credere; Gdf: 5,275c mescreable; GdfC: ; TL: 5,1601 mescrëable; 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  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   ii 212.1
2unbelievable, dubious
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv2/4 )  Quele chose mescreable est ceo juggee vers vous, si Dieu suscite lez mortz?  (B) 224b

s.

1theol.unbeliever, heathen
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  li mescreables (Latin: increduli) acertes habiterent en sechedez  113.LXVII.7
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Saint Lorenz dit al mescreable: 'Ohi, tu, membre de deable [...]'  429
creable  mescreance  mescreancie  mescreant  mescreantise  mescreire 
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