[optique] (s.xiii2/4)
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[optique] (s.xiii2/4)

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[ gdw]

[ FEW: 7,379a optikos; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 10,236b optique; TL: 6,959 obtique; DEAF:  obtique; DMF:  optique; TLF:  optique 1; OED:  optic a. and n.; MED:  optik a.; DMLBS: 2039a opticus ]
opitique  

The attestations of DMF, Gdf and TL (for French) and the MED (for English) suggest that in medieval times the adjective only seems to have been used in combination with nerf/nerve and sinew. The single A-N attestation confirms this.

a.

1anat.optical, relating to the eye: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Premerement doit l'en espurgier le cors ou le chief de ieralogodion ou de piles aurees et meimement se ele est de cause privee sicome de opilation del ners optique  (ms. opitique)  i 190
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