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Promptorium parvulorum sive clericorum, lexicon Anglo-Latinum princeps / auctore fratre Galfrido grammatico dicto e predicatoribus lenne episcopi, northfolciensi, A.D. circa M.CCCC.XL. Olim e prelis Pynsonianis editum, nunc ab integro, commentariolis subjectis, ad fidem codicum recensuit Albertus Way.

  • Galfridus Anglicus, Dominican friar, active 1440.
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1843-1865
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    Lytyl, or sumwliatt. Pavum, modicum, adv. Lytylle, not grete yn quantite. Parvus, modicus (paucus, p.) Lytylle better. Meliusculus. Lytylle ciiylde. Puerulus, pusius, cath. parvulus, pusio, pusillus, C. F. Lytyl feytiie (or lewte, supra; litil fey3t, k. lytyll in feyth, p.) Pici e cula, cath. Lytylle lyare. Mendaculus, cath. mendacula. (Lytyll mayden, p. Puella.) Lytylle mann. Homuneio, ho- mullus, homunculus. Lytylle mann, or clwerfe (litil- man or dwarw, k. dwerwe, h. s. dwerue, p.) Nanus, c. f. ses- silius, CATII. Lytylle thynge. Recula. Lytyn’ clothys (littyn, k. p. lytyn, or lete, s.)1 Tingo. Lytyn’, or longe taryyn’.2 Moror. Lytynge of clothe (littinge, k. p.) Tinctura. Lytynge, or longe taryynge. Mora, morositas. (Lytstare, supra in lista re, s.) Lyvely, or qwyk, or fulle of lyyf (liyfly, fui of liyf, k.) Vivax. Lyvely, or qwykly (liyfly, k.) Vivaciter. LEVELYHEEDE,orqwyknesse(liyf- lines, k.) Vivacitas. Lyvelode, or lyfhode (liyflode, k.)3 Victus. Lyflode, or warysone (liyflode, k. lyuelode, h. p.)4 Donati- vum. Lyverey of clothe, or ojier 3yftys.5 Liberata (liberatura, p.) 1 “ Tingo, to dye, to coloure, or to lytte.” med. “ To litte, colorare, inficere, tingere, tinctare. A littynge, tinctura.'''' cath. ang. Ray gives “ to lit, to colour or dve : a linendo, sup. litum.” INL Country words. It is also given by Jamieson, but is not noticed by Brockett, or the other Northern Glossarists. Isi. lita, tingere. 2 In the Vis. of P. P. 12,067, the good Samaritan is described as hastily quitting the dreamer, saying, “I may no lenger lette.” See also 11,524. A.-Sax. latian, tardare. 3 —lyshode, MS. 4 Compare waryson. Donativum, possessio. The term here implies a pension for Services; a largess in money or grain ; a dole given to veteran soldiers. “ Dona- tivum, yifte of knyghte. Emericio est liberacio ab ojficio cum remuneracione, a ware- sone.” med. 5 A livery denoted whatever was dispensed by the lord to his officials or domestics annually, or at certain seasons; whether money, victuals, or garments. Even in the Saxon times there appears to have been a distribution of this nature, the gafol-hwitel, saga vectigalis, of the Laws of Ina, which was, as Spelman observes, a kind of livery. The term chiefly denoted external marks of distinction, such as the roba estivalis, and hiemalis, given to the officers and retainers of the Court, as appears by the Wardrobe Book, 28 Edw. I. p. 310, and the Household Ordinances. The practice of distributing such tokens of general adherence to the Service or interests of the individual who granted them, for the maintenance of any private quarrel, was carried to an injurious extent during the reigns of Edw. III. and Rich. H. and was forbidden by several statutes, which allowed liveries to be borne only by menials, or the members of gilds, &c. See Stat, of Realm, ii. pp. 3, 74, 93, 156, 167- The 11 liverbe des chaperonsfi often mentioned in tbese documents, was an hood or tippet, which, being of a colour strongly contrasted to that of the garment, was a kind of livery much in fashion, and
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