1
rept.
zool.
of, belonging to a serpent, snake:
(
c.1230;
MS: 1275-85
)
Manticora [...] Oilz ad jaunes, culur sanguin, La voiz cum siffle serpentin [...]
680
(
c.1300;
MS: s.xivm
)
Fu Joan Bastist qi le poeple aprist: 'Di lignage serpentine
(Latin: injustum vipereumque genus), qi te ad mustré Ire ad vener fuier, ne me seit celee'
1732
(
1360-79;
MS: s.xivex
)
Tençoun [...] Que porte langue envenimé Plus que n’est langue serpentine
4276
2
rept.
zool.
serpent-like, with the features or characteristic of a snake:
(
c.1136-65;
MS: c.1200
)
ele ait redor serpentine, E simplicité columbine
6541
(
1267;
MS: c.1300
)
The Devil teste de virgine avoit devant, E tut derere fu serpentin
115
(
c.1275;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
Ke eyent simplesce columbyne E la quoyntyse serpentyne
4668
(
1360-79;
MS: s.xivex
)
En la figure serpentine [...] Ly deable conta sa covine
134
♦
deceitful, false:
(
c.1136-65;
MS: c.1200
)
Ço est des erites la doctrine Ki de toz mals est serpentine
3892
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: s.xiiim
)
Seinte Iglise, qui la serp[ent]ine doctrine des herites defulet e destruet
1015
(
1360-79;
MS: s.xivex
)
Meulx valt [...] q’om se decline Et fuie la tençon par soy Que du parole serpentine [...] Respondre et veintre le tournoy
13480
serpentin1 (c.1136-65)