Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An obsolete form of saint.
- n. A girdle or belt.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A girdle.
- n. obsolete A saint.
Examples
“And seint Poul him self was there a physicyen, for to kepen mennes bodies in hele, before he was converted: and aftre that, he was phisicien of soules.”
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“Nu we sculen heow sceawen hwilc hit is heo {m} for to heren ⁊ nawiht for to ethalden. for seint gregori seið.”
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
“Þe ancre ne hire meiden ne plohien ` nane´ worldliche gomenes ed te þurle · ne ne ticki to {} gederes · foR ase seið seint Beornard. vnwurðe þing is to euch gastelich mon · ⁊ nomeliche to ancre {;} euch swuch fleschlich {220} froure · ⁊ hit binimeð gastelich þ̵ is wið {} ute met utnume murhðe · ⁊ þ̵ is uuel change as is iseid þruppe.”
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
“E communde le rey e defend qe feire ne marche ne seient tenuz en cimeter pur honur de seint eglise.”
“Margarete in seint Katryne Ile, there as the great Lady stands, for carvyng and gildyng of them summa c. marcs sterlinge.”
“A Sotelte of our lady sittyng and hir childe in hir lappe, and she holdyng in hir hand a crowne and seint George knelyng on that oo side and seint Denyse on that other side, presentyng the kyng, knelyng to our lady, with this Reason folowyng;”
“Shrowisbure and the lord Lile his sone slayne: prynce Edward the kyngs sone was borne: and upon seint Barthilues day was a man of seint”
“Than the kyng and his hoste went to Barkhamsted; and after seint”
“Also this yere the kyng passid the see to Caleis upon seint”
“Fraunce, and dame Katerine his sustre, the duke of Burgoyne metten togiders in seint Petres chirche of Troys, in the body of the same chirch; and after went thei up to the high auter, and there tharticles of the peas redde, and the othes made on either partie: and than was the kyng and dame Katerine sured togiders.”
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