adamant (s.xii1/3)

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adamant (s.xii1/3)

  FEW:  adamas 24,133a Gdf:  adamant 1,94c / athamante 1,474b GdfC: TL: DEAF:  adamas (*)  DMF:  adamant  TLF: OED:  adamant n. and a.  MED:  adama(u)nt n.  DMLBS:  adamas 25c
adamaunt,  athamante  

s.

1lapid.adamant, very hard kind of rock that has been associated with diamond but also has the magnetic properties of lodestone
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  ço que l’en trove adamant De desur le munt d’Oriant  204.19
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 ) Qu’il vit un barun seant Dedesur le munt d’aimant. En sa main le adamant ot  2927
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  N’ad trestel ne pié qe ne seit de kamante (var. (P: c.1310) d’athamante)  4355
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 ) Inde magnete en soi nurist, Ke chescun fer en soi ravist; E adamant tuit ensement  717
( MS: s.xiii2 )  adamentem: (C) adamant  ii 80.170
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  (J.C. is) Mes adamauns quant nuit m’ecille En ceste mer ou je perille  1877

a.?

1 lapid. of adamant
( 1356-57; MS: s.xivex ) Et come bien qe homme y treoeve des bons diamantz en Ynde sur les roches de cristal, nientmoinz homme les troeve plus comunement sur les roches adamantz  306
adamantine  adamas  aimant#1  diamand 
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