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seynt

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Searchable Lemmata: cinctus (L), cinctor (L), ceint (AF), saint (AF), ceint (ME), seynt (MdE).
Alternate Forms: ceincte, ceinte, cinctui, cinctum, sain, saint, sauns, sayn, saynt, seinte, seinte, sent, seynt.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Accessory; girdle, sash; belt.(circa 700 - circa 1425)
1. Cinctus est lata zona, et minus lata semicinctium, et utrisque minima cingulum; nam a cinctu per diminutionem cingulum nominatum. Cinctu autem iuvenes in exercitatione campestri verecunda velabant; unde et campestris dicebatur. [DOE ISID. Etym. (19,33,1)]
2. Cinctus Gabinus est cum ita inponitur toga ut togae lacinia, quae post secus reicitur, adtrahitur ad pectus, ita ut ex utroque latere ex humeris picturae pendeant, ut sacerdotes gentilium faciebant aut cingebantur praetores. [DOE ISID. Etym. (19,24,7)]
3. Cinctus gabinus : twilæpped scrud on twam healfan gescredde swa meteras metaþ on anlicnyssan. [DOE AntGl 4 (Kindschi) (0850 (850))]
4. [J. Baptista] pilis camelorum et cinctui zonae pelliciae auro textas pontificum postposuit stolas [DMLBS BEDE (Hom. II 19.203) ante 735]
5. tibialia: estyveuz, estivalia idem vel hesez, estivés, stiveus ... oricalco: orpeter, gallice orcauz , de fil de orochal, orochaut ... pluscularii: lé bouclers, buclers, bukelers, buchelers ... corrigiarii: ceynturers lé escurreours, cories, coreres ... texta: seyntes tysuez, sey tissu, de say, ceynte de sceye ... cruralia: quiseuz, quisers, huses, husis, esses Gloss. [AND TLL (ii 127) ante 1300]
6. [172] ... As dames durretz les fermauls, Les ceintz de soie e les aneaux ... [174] ... (I advise you to give ) as beles damaiseles Les gerlaundesches, les bukebeles (vars. Les gerlaundes et beubelés, Symplez garlandez et chosez beales) ... [AND Courtoisie ((L) 172-174) circa 1250/1430]
7. Wyth ryche cotearmure ... Gurde wyth a bront ful sure, With silk sayn vmbe his syde. Poetic, Romance. [MED Gawain ((Nero A.10) 589) circa 1390]
8. He rood but hoomly in a medlee [vrr. medely, medly; medled] coote, Girt with a ceynt [vrr. seint, sent] of silk Poetic. [MED Chaucer CT.Prol. ((Manly-Rickert) A.328-9) circa 1387/1395]
9. A-bowte hure myddel a seynt sche sou3t ... He toke þer þe gurdel in his honde [MED Assump.Virg.(1) ((Add 10036) 133/793) ante 1425]
c.f.: cincture, ceindre, girdle, zona
AF, ME.
Sex: Male, Female    Use: n/a    Ceremonial: No
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    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Old French; Classical Latin cinctus. Attested only once in medieval British Latin (Bede) in this form.
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