theme (s.xiii4/4)

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theme (s.xiii4/4)

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[FEW: 13/i,303a thema; Gdf: ; GdfC: 10,762b theme; TL: 10,163 teme; DEAF:  teme; DMF:  thème; TLF:  thème; OED:  theme n.; MED:  teme n.2; DMLBS: 3430b thema]
teme,  theame  

s.

1theol.theme, quotation (typically from the Bible) serving as the topic of a sermon or discourse
( 1377 ) Et sur ce le dit arcevesqe y dist plusours bones resons accordantz a sa theme =of sermon  iii 3
(em)prendre a, pur sun (etc.) theme
1theol.to use as a theme, base one’s sermon or discourse on (a quotation)
( s.xiii4/4; MS: 1307-15 ) Aprés fist un sermoun au pople, e prist pour son theme ceo ki est escrit en le sauter: 'Secundum multitudinem' [...]  224
( 1400 ) l'erchevesque de Everwyk comencea une collacione, et prist sur (l. pur) sa teme 'Posuit verba in os meum etc.', en la quele il declara [...]  268.27
( 1404 ) Et sur ceo mesme le chanceller, empreignant a soun theme les parols ensuantz, c'estassavoir: 'Multitudo sapientum'  iii 522
( 1414 ) le chanceller [...] pronuncia les causes del somons du dit parlement [...], preignant a soun theame les parols ensuantz en Latyn: 'Posuit cor suum ad investigandam leges'  iv 15
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