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

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[ gdw]

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