in the stede
Middle English
editAdjective
edit- Obsolete phrasing of instead.
- "The ſhyphyrdes vſe it in the ſtede of a ſtrayner"
- Modern English:
- "The shepherds use it instead of a strainer"
- Turner, William I. A New Herball, Wherein are Conteyned the Names of Herbes in Greke, Latin, Englijsh, Duch, Frenche, and in the Potecaries and Herbaries Latin (etc.). United Kingdom, Steven Mierdman, 1551.