rate1 (c.1290)
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rate1 (c.1290)

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[gdw]

[ FEW: 16,673a rate; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 10,478b rate 2; TL: 8,333 rate; DEAF:  rate 1; DMF:  rate 1; TLF:  rate; OED:  rate n.2; MED: ∅; DMLBS: ∅ ]
ratte  

The word normally refers to the spleen, and is still used as such in Modern French. However, the Middle English glosses suggest that in its Anglo-Norman use the word refers to the midriff or diaphragm (MED mid-rid(e n. and miggern n.). This ambiguity is hard to resolve, and the MED allows in both entries for the interpretation ‘?also, the spleen’.

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1anat.spleen (also used with reference to the midriff): 
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  Dedens la gorge est le gargate, E pluis parfunt si gist rate (M.E. miderede)  76
( s.xivin; MS: 1382 )  Dedeynz le ventre de checun Est coer, foie [...], Veynes, rate et farsue (M.E. mygge and mydreme)  73
( 1399; MS: s.xv1 )   ma faie, mon feel, ma ratte, mes boialz  52.3
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