Middle English Dictionary Entry
leǧī̆ble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | leǧī̆ble adj. Also legeble. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Clearly written, easily read, legible; (b) available for reading.
Associated quotations
a
- (1445-6) Proc.Privy C.6.325 : For the writyng and makyng of certein bokes in your escheker of large and legible hand and in gret volumys.
- ?c1450 This present (Nott Me.LM1)1 : This present book legeble in scripture, Here in this place thus tacched with a cheyn.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)72a : Legibyll: legibilis.
b
- 1558(?a1440) Burgh Praise Lydg.(Add 29729)27 : Thenlumynyd boke where in a man shall rede thes and mo be in this londe legeble.