Middle English Dictionary Entry
incestus n.
Entry Info
| Forms | incestus n. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
One of the worst types of unchastity, including incest and other sexual sins:?also, as adj.: criminally lewd.
Associated quotations
- c1425 Treat.10 Com.(StJ-O 94)28 : And incestus is more synne þen auoutre. Incestus is he þat delith with nonne, with kosyn, or with amaydon, þe wich is called defloracio.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)2.4068 : Incestus is a thyng nat fair nor good..As trespasyng with kyn or with blood, Or froward medlyng with hir that is a nunne.