serpentin1 (c.1136-65)

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serpentin1 (c.1136-65)

[gdw]

[ FEW: 11,520b serpens; Gdf: ; GdfC: 10,667a serpentin; TL: 9,542 serpentin; DEAF:  serpent (serpentin); DMF:  serpentin; TLF:  serpentin; OED:  serpentine a.; MED:  serpentin(e a.; DMLBS: 3048b serpentinus ]
serpentyn;  serpentine,  serpentyne  

a.

1 rept. zool. of, belonging to a serpent, snake
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  Manticora [...] Oilz ad jaunes, culur sanguin, La voiz cum siffle serpentin [...]  680
( c.1300; MS: s.xivm )  Fu Joan Bastist qi le poeple aprist: 'Di lignage serpentine (Latin: injustum vipereumque genus), qi te ad mustré Ire ad vener fuier, ne me seit celee'  1732
( 1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  Tençoun [...] Que porte langue envenimé Plus que n’est langue serpentine  4276
2 rept. zool. serpent-like, with the features or characteristic of a snake
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  ele ait redor serpentine, E simplicité columbine  6541
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  The Devil teste de virgine avoit devant, E tut derere fu serpentin  115
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Ke eyent simplesce columbyne E la quoyntyse serpentyne  4668
( 1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  En la figure serpentine [...] Ly deable conta sa covine  134
deceitful, false
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Ço est des erites la doctrine Ki de toz mals est serpentine  3892
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiiim )  Seinte Iglise, qui la serp[ent]ine doctrine des herites defulet e destruet  1015
( 1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  Meulx valt [...] q’om se decline Et fuie la tençon par soy Que du parole serpentine [...] Respondre et veintre le tournoy  13480
herbe serpentine
1 bot. dragonwort (Dracunculus vulgaris) or snakeweed (Persicaria bistorta)
( MS: s.xiiiex )  Le herbe serpentine ait trible[e]  49.162
serpent  serpentarie  serpenteal  serpentelle  serpentier  serpentine#1  serpentinerie 
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