overfeble
Middle English
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editoverfeble
- Feeble to an excessive degree; overfeeble.
- c. 1225, “Eahtuðe dale: þe uttre riwle”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402)[1], Herefordshire, published c. 1235, folio 112, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 2018 January:
- Ȝe ne ſchulen naƿt eoten fleſch ne ſeim · bute foꝛ muche ſecneſſe oðer hƿa ſe iſ ouer feble ·
- You shouldn't eat meat or fat, except in the case of extreme frailty or a strong illness.
Descendants
edit- English: overfeeble, over-feeble
References
edit- “overfẹ̄ble, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-08-18.