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prosilite (s.xiv1)

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prosilite (s.xiv1)

proselit,  proselite  
  FEW:  proselytus 9,464b Gdf: GdfC:  proselyte 10,436c TL: proselite 7,1997 DEAF:  proselite  DMF:  prosélyte  TLF:  prosélyte  OED:  proselyte n. and adj.  MED:  proselite n.  DMLBS:  proselytus 2525c

a.

alien, foreign
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  Lors nombra Salomon touz les biers proselitz les queux estoient [...]  287

s.

Judaismproselyte, one who has converted to Judaism
( s.xiv1; MS: c.1361 )  Et coment oismes nous ch[e]scum nostre langge en le quel sumes neez? Parceis et Medes [...] et cil qe habitent en Mesapothamie [...], Gieux [...] et proselitez, Cretes et Arabitz  (A) 362b
( MS: s.xivm )  chapellains, levitz, [...], prosilites  4rb

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