Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
agist . - A Middle English spelling of
guise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To feed or pasture.
- noun obsolete Guise; manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
guise ;manner
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Examples
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Note 165: Régime, p. 77: "et soi garder qu'ele ne gise a homme, car c'est li cose qui plus corrunt le lait, et por cou qu'ele ne deviegne encainte, car femme encainte quant ele alaite tue et destrait les enfans." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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If this one's young an 'pretty I'll' polo gise, an 'it'll be all right.
The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy Edward Dyson 1898
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Bigorre, which it bears (_qu'il gise_) to this day in the
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These Cuttid [63] galaunt {es} with their {e} codwar {e}; þat is añ vngoodly gise; --
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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We apolo - given him by his wife Annalyn and by Juvenile Sports Com - gise for this-we hope to correct the clerk Elfyn Williams.
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He says that minstrels and singers are highly favoured at court, especially those of the French gise.
The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489
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About this time the illustrious Gaubius, who had succeeded to the chair of Boerbaave, published bis "Institutiones Patholor gise."
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The Tranflator has nothing to add, but to apolo* gise for die foreign idoms which maj perhaps oc - cur to the difcerning eyes of the keen-fighted cri - tic, and hopes that his labour will contribute, at leaft Something to the deftmffion of fimaticifm in difs country.
The victim of magical delusion; or, The mystery of the revolution of P-l, tr. by P. Will 1795
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I’ll be finkink ob u gise tunite in mai dark howse an i wil smiel an LOL.
srry, but - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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To your {e} sou {er} ayne þe gret fowles legge ley, as is þe gise, and þus mowe ye neu {er} mysse of all {e} co {n} nyng {e} s {er} uise.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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