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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of medly.

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Examples

  • And these twain be not well medlied but in small parts compounded, therefore tin hath colour of silver but not the sadness thereof.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

  • And it is said that horses weep for sorrow, right as a man doth, and so the kind of horse and of man is medlied.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

  • And is called simple, not for an element is simple without any composition, but for it hath no parts that compound it, that be diverse in kind and in number as some medlied bodies have: as it fareth in metals of the which some parts be diverse; for some part is air, and some is earth.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

  • For raw humour medlied with blood that hath perfect digestion, is contrary thereto in its quality, and disturbeth the temperance thereof, as authors say.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

  • Quicksilver is a watery substance medlied strongly with subtle earthly things, and may not be dissolved: and that is for great dryness of earth that melteth not on a plain thing.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

  • For upon the gravel of that river shipmen made fire of clods medlied with bright gravel, and thereof ran streams of new liquor, that was the beginning of glass.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

  • For black lead cometh alone of a vein, or is gendered of silver in medlied veins, and is blown, and in blowing first cometh tin, and then silver, and then what leaveth is blown and turneth into black lead.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

  • For it grieveth and hurteth the blood of a beast, if it come into a bleeding wound, and is medlied with the blood.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

  • For they are not medlied with service of Venus, nother resolved with lechery, nother bruised with sorrow of birth of children.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

  • Alchemy Hermes saith, that tin breaketh all metals and bodies that it is medlied with, and that for the great dryness of tin.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

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