Middle English Dictionary Entry
leprǒus adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | leprǒus adj. Also leprus, leprose, lepres, lepris, leperous, (error) luprus. |
| Etymology | OF lepros & L leprōsus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) = lepre adj.; (b) alch. of metals or minerals: impure; (c) as noun: a leper; coll. lepers; (d) simon (the) ~, Simon the leper in whose house Christ was anointed by an unidentified woman.
Associated quotations
a
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)77/29 : Moyseses hond..bisemde o þe spitel uuel & þuhte lepruse.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Is.53.4 : Oure sicnesses he tooc, and oure sorewes he bar; and wee heelden hym as leprous [L leprosum].
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Lev.13.46 : He shal crien hym wemmed & foul al tyme þat he is leprous [WB(2): lepre; L leprosus] & vnclene.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.8.2 : A leprouse man cummynge worshipide hym.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.483 : He wolde myldeliche visite pore men and leprouse.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)42b/b : Ȝif þey [brows] ben withoute heer, þey tokeneþ corrupcioun of blood withinne, as it fareþ in lepres men.
- c1400 Bible SNT(1) (Selw 108 L.1)prol.16/15 : Eferich man þat was leprous was vnclene.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)4 Kings 5.1 : Naaman..was a strong man and riche but leprouse [WB(1): mesell; L leprosus].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)110b/a : Causez primitif [of leprosy] beþ corrupcion of þe aier, touchyng of leprose men, malice of metez.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)153b/b : It is caused of malancolius metes, as befe and salte fische, and it cummeþ also of colde and lyinge by a leprous womnan [read: womman] oþer a scalled womman.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)116b/a : We haue none oþer waye in þe helynge of leprouse men after þe clensynge of þe body but in serpentes.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)7.431 : It sittith nat in no maner wise..leprous lechis to cure men of seeknesse.
- a1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)2349 : Lepres men weron clansud mony one þere.
- ?a1450 Lanfranc (Add 12056)4/17 : Cap. vii of lepre, & of knowlechyng of leprys Man.
- a1456(a1402) *Trev.Nicod.(Add 16165)108a : Many þat I hade emade blynde, deef, croked..and leprous..he heled hem.
- a1475 Bk.Quint.(Sln 73)16/4 : The þridde medicyn is to cure..not þe lepre þat comeþ to man of kynde of þe fadir and of þe modir leprous.
- c1425(a1400) Wycl.Conf.(Dub 245)342 : Crist bad ten leprouse men go & shewe hem to þe prestis.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)72b : A leprusman: leprosus.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)41/3 : For þe face þat semyþ leperous.
b
- a1456(a1449) Lydg.Semblable (Ashm 59)46 : Þalknamystre treteþe of myneralles, And of metalles þe alteracyouns..þeire sundry generacyouns..Why somme beo clene, some leprous, and not able.
c
- c1275 Ken.Serm.(LdMisc 471)218/136,141 : Swo kam a leprus, a sikman, and onurede him..Se leprus signefiez þo senuulle men.
- c1390 NHom.Narrat.(Vrn)277/65 : Crist..Tebaut..sende..in to purgatori Þorwh þe preyere of þat leprous Of whom Tebaut dude his almous.
- a1400(c1300) NHom.(1) Gosp.(Phys-E)p.129 : This forsaid leprous was made hale.
- ?c1430 Wycl.Tract AMaria (Corp-C 296)205 : Þei ben..bonde wymmen of synne..& lemmans of foule sathanas, þat is foulere þan ony mesel or leprous in þis world.
- a1456(a1402) *Trev.Nicod.(Add 16165)114b : Ihesus..clensed meselles and leprous.
- (1464) RParl.5.521a : For to fynde and susteyn there yerely for ever, certeyn Leprus of oure menialx Servauntez.
d
- c1300 SLeg.Magd.(2) (LdMisc 108)79 : Symond leperous..bad ore louerd to is hous.
- a1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)17 : Symon leprous was a man þat mesel was longe.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mark 14.3 : He was at Betanye, in the hous of Symount leprous.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)13986 : A man þat hight symon leprus.
- c1400 St.Anne(1) (Min-U Z.822.N.81)2072 : Scho come to symond leprous.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)48/12 : Þare dwelt Symon þe leprous.
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)225/130 : As we satte..With Symond luprus full sone My skiffte come to scathe.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)170/11 : Crist was in the hous of Symon þe leprous.