stondefast (s.xv)

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stondefast (s.xv)

[gdw]

  FEW: Gdf: GdfC: TL: DEAF: DMF: TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:
 
ls(loanword: M.E. (?))
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The word does not appear in the English dictionaries, but see OED sub steadfast n., which provides a sixteenth-century attestation of what seems to be the same plant name.

s.

1bot.castor-oil plant, Ricinus communis (?)
( MS: s.xv ) Un herbe ke l’en apele stondefast, i. jagdewrt, autretaunt cest medicyne  146.E303
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