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mesel1 (c.1170)
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mesel1 (c.1170)

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mesal,  meseal,  meseau,  mesele,  meseyl,  meseu;  messeal; 
c.s. mesaus,  meseaus; 
pl. mesaux,  meseaus,  meseaux,  meseus,  meseux,  messeaux,  messeux  (meseel  BRITT i 347 (var.) ,  meycel  Sel Bills Eyre 36,  misele,  meseeus  BRITT i 347)  
  FEW:  misellus 6/ii,166b Gdf:  mesel 5,278b GdfC: ∅ TL: mesel 5,1616 DEAF:  mesel  DMF:  mésel  TLF:  mésel  OED:  mesel adj. and n.  MED:  mesel n.  DMLBS:  misellus 1804b

a.

pathol.med.leprous: 
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  Mesaus fu e lieprus tuz les jors qu'il vesqui  Becket1 2960
( c.1185 )  Sul cest an mil chevalers bels Sunt devenu trestuz mesels  Proth ANTS 4040
( 1356-57; MS: s.xivex )  en ce flum Jordan Naaman de Sirie se baigna qe estoit moult riches homme et fust meseal et tantost fust garris  Mandeville 229
♦fig.wretched, miserable: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Gufier nus ad mort, dunt sa mere est misele  Horn 3304

s.

1med.leper: 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  mesel ousté de commune de gent  BRITT ii 356
( c.1325; MS: c.1325 )  Jhesus [...] encontrat un meseu que le requist de sauncté  Bible Holkham 37.10
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  les contrez sana et meseaux mounda  TREVET Cron1 320.2
♦fig.outcast, wretch: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  joe n'ai or ne argent, [...] Pur quei me siwrez dunc, itiel mesel dolent?  Horn 4293
2med.pock, wart (as caused by leprosy or a similarly disfiguring skin disease): 
( MS: s.xiiiex )  veruca: pocke, wertte, mesele  Gloss Garland 174
soverein mesel
lawmed.statuschief leper, head of a leper community: 
( 1313 )  Et des biens des meseaux, la ou il sunt governez par sovereyn meseal, ne soient taxez ne prisez [...] Et si il soient meseaux governez par meistre seyn, soient lour biens taxez com des autres  Lib Cust 195
( c.1353-80 ) les bienz de meseals la ou il y sount governez par soverayn meseal [...]  ROUGH 120

s.f.

med.femalelepress, female leper: 
( MS: s.xiii )  misella: mesele  Gloss Garland 171

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See also:

meselerie 
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