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† wax-bred Obs. [f. wax n.1 + bred n.] A wax tablet. Also transf. a ‘table’, list. In quots. c 1000 and a 1175 misapplied to the stone ‘tables’ of the Decalogue.
c960Bened. Rule (Schröer) lv. 92 Weaxbreda [L. tabulæ]. c1000ælfric Hom. II. 196 Þa awrat se ælmihtiᵹa God him twa stænene wexbredu mid his aᵹenum fingre. c1055Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia VIII. 332 Swa us her æfter ᵹelustfullaþ to amearkianne on þissum æfterfyliᵹendum wexbredum, þe se arwurða beda ᵹesette. a1175Cott. Hom. 235 Þer efter arerde god þas laȝe þurh moysen..and wrate his him self in stanene waxbredene. [1853Rock Ch. of Fathers III. ii. 128 Long after paper became known, the use of such tablets, which we may call the wax-brede, was kept on.] |