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sanglant (s.xii1/3)

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The form saunglaunt is a cross reference to the following entry:

sanglant (s.xii1/3)

sanclant,  sanclaunt,  sanclent,  sanglaunt,  sanglent,  saunglant,  saunglaunt,  senglant,  senglaunt,  senglent,  sengglant  (samglent 671 singlans)  
  FEW:  sanguilentus 11,154a Gdf:  sanglant 7,305a GdfC:  sanglant 10,625b TL: sanglent 9,148 DEAF:  sanglent  DMF:  sanglant  TLF:  sanglant  OED: MED: DMLBS:  sanguinolentus 2929a

For more on the semantic development of 'bloodthirsty, cruel' towards the modern perjorative, see E. Reed 'Some Evidence for bloody as an Anglo-Norman Intensifier', Notes and Queries, 64.4 (2017) 521-24.

a.

1bloody, containing or stained with blood
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  Les plaies sunt mult parfundes, Dun senglantes sunt les undes  944
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiii3/3 )  Arere saili ensement E le men lit refis sanglant  750
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  son chief virent tant esquasé, blief e bosçu, sanglant, enflé  1035
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiiim )  De la suur sanglante e de la sepulture  (A) 4.41
( 1312-14 )  aparceurent vestures senglantes des gentz occis en la nief  238
( s.xiv2; MS: s.xiv2 )  Urine sanclente signifie [la vessie] estre blescé  ii 259
( MS: s.xv )  la urine qe est sanglente signefie la vescie estre blessé  118.E7
colourblood-red, blood-coloured
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  une pere de tel façon: Cum esmeraude est [sa] façon, Sanglantes veines i trovum  231.828
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  Arere li resortirat E sanglente colur prendra  232.847
( 1141; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Noef soleilz colorez [...] Li quarz d’autre semblant E roges e sanglant  106
2bloodthirsty, cruel
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Sathan, le viel senglant dragun  320
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  Deliveré ad la terre Deus Des sanglanz Daneis bastarz  4751
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  Sa seinte canse (=cheinse, 'robe') si sacree Des sanglenz murdrers desputee  4142
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Si ont trait en avowerie un ribaut senglant Qui lieres out est‚ de trestut son vivant: Willam Waleis l'appellent tote gent  334.1167
pej. bloody, damn
( 1396; MS: s.xv1 )  Toi toi, senglant merdous garcion  25.6
flux sanglant
pathol.haemorrage, bleeding
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  Veronica [...] q’il avoyt sané d’une forte maladie del flux sanglant  97.9

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See also:

sanc  sancfuison  sancrevee  sancmeslure  sancsue  sancterné  sancdragon  sanglanter  sanguin  sanguinarie  sanguine  sanguinein  sanguis 
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