- men and woymen, as ȝe
knowen wele all, þys day ys
called Whitsonday, for
bycause þat þe Holy Gost as þys day broȝt wyt and
wysdome ynto all
Cristes dyscyples...
- 1425; Þei haue not þanne þe
supernaturel lyȝt ne þe liȝt of kunnynge,
bycause þei
vndirstoden it not). The
semantic value of the term has
shifted over...
- Jean de Meun
described the
innate character of a gentleman: "He is
gentil bycause he doth as
longeth to a gentilman." That
definition develops until the...
- natural. The
animal spirite hath his
seate in the
brayne ...
called animal,
bycause it is the
first instrument of the soule,
which the
Latins call animam."...
- Andoren, and of some
Egyptenaers cruyt, that is to say, the
Egyptians herbe,
bycause of the
Rogues and
runnegates which call
themselves Egyptians, do colour...
- as the flat and
short nedeth it not. It
qualifyeth no
ending vowell,
bycause it
followeth none in the end,
sauing i. as in daie, maie, saie, trewlie...
-
oldest almshouses in England.
Wherof the
bigger is
caullid the
Crosse Bath,
bycause it hath a
Cross erectid in the
midle of it. This Bath is much frequentid...
- man
Martyn Bucer, upon
these wordes of S. Matthew: woo be to the
wordle bycause of offences. Matth.
xviii (1566) and The
Fortress of Fathers, ernestlie...
