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grabatus

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Searchable Lemmata: grabatus (L).
Alternate Forms: grabatum, grabate, gratbatto.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Furnishing; pallet or (portable) bed; bed, especially sick-bed. [cf. Adam of Petit Pont's De Utensilibus, T. Hunt, TLL i 176].(circa 730 - 1500)
1. infirmitate ... adeo pressus ut ... manibus ministrorum portaretur in grabato Historic. [DMLBS BEDE (HEV 19 p. 328)]
2. cum grabatto deponitur infirmus Biblical/Hagiographic. (with reference to Mark II:9) [DMLBS BEDE (Mark 147) ante 735]
3. effertur a multa hominum turba ... demoniacus, multis vinculorum nexibus ... grabbato alligatus Biblical/Hagiographic. [DMLBS OSB. (Mir. Dunst. 19) ante 1100]
4. Deus qui liberasti ... paraliticum de gratbatto (Portiforium Wulfstani) Biblical/Hagiographic. (with reference to Mark II:9) [DMLBS HBS (LXXXIX 171) ante 1100]
5. ire non potuit, ... in grabato jacens a media Quadragesima usque festum S. Trinitatis Biblical/Hagiographic. (sick-bed) [DMLBS Mir. Montf. (106) circa 1280]
6. videres ... affluere viros cum feretris et grabatis ... ad abducendum mortuos ... et vulneratos Historic. [DMLBS KNIGHTON (Cont. II 209) circa 1386]
7. nomina pertinencia camere: ... hoc lectum, alle maner of beddys, hoc grabatum, a seke mannys beddys Gloss. (sick-bed) [DMLBS WW (grabatum) 1400/1499]
8. a bedde, ... grabatum, lectus, stratum, thorus Gloss. [DMLBS CathA (grabatum) 1483]
c.f.: bed
L.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2(n.) Accessory; lap or skirt? [the Catholicon Anglicum, 1483; also Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies, ed. T. Wright and R. P. Wülcker, 2 vols. (1884), 15th C.](1400 - 1500)
1. de vocabulis ad ... membra humani corporis spectantibus: ... hoc grabatum, ... a skyrte WW Gloss. [DMLBS WW (grabatum (2)) 1400/1499]
2. a skyrte, birrum, gremium, grabatum Gloss. [DMLBS CathA (birrum, gremium, grabatum) 1483]
c.f.: skirt
L; Primarily Gloss.
Sex: Male, Female    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Classical Latin, from Greek.
WF:
Etym Cog: barme.
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