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
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
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by
Taylor & Francis for the
MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the
Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
adamant (s.xii1/3)