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access, fervent burning attack of
fever: 21.18
adoption “taking up and treating as
one’s own” (OED s.v. adoption
2a): 40.15
adread frightened: 66.20
affections of the body passions, appetites
(OED s.v. affection sb.
3): 27.15
allective enticement: 30.21
allegation excuse: 62.29
an if: 55.25
an though even if: 11.19, 44.30
apply compare, weigh against:
57.1
appoint resolve: 21.14
astart escape: 74.11
attempt try, put to the test: 9.10
await ambush: 33.3
aye ever, always: 50.12, 72.1
GLOSSARY
This Glossary only includes terms and expressions that depart from modern English
usage. These same terms and expressions may also appear in ways familiar
to a modern speaker of English. Each entry therefore indicates the location of
an example or examples of the archaic usage according to page and line number.
Whenever the part of speech is unclear, it has been indicated. For highly contextsensitive
glossed phrases, please consult the specific gloss on the page in question.
balade ballad: 64.2
bereave deprive of: 58.10
besprent covered, besprinkled: 19.6
brittle fleeting, transient: 61.29
busy cure anxious concern (CW
1:249): 67.19
but if unless: 16.21
cast consider, reckon: 59.19
catch infect, attack: 56.9
canker disease. corruption: 56.9
Canon Canon Law: 7.23
Chaldee Aramaic, not Chaldean
(CW 1:219): 16.26
certes certainly: 67.3
chepe bargain: 15.15
civil political, public: 34.26
clear make clear, known: 67.31,
68.2
comely proper, seemly: 65.15
comprise take in, conceive: 68.9