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▪ I. † liss Obs.
Also 1 líðs, líss, 2–4 lisse, 3 lysse, 4–5 lys.
[OE. líðs, líss, f. líðe gentle, soft: see lithe a.]
1. Remission, release; mitigation, abatement; hence, cessation, end.
c1000Credo 54 (Gr.) Remissionem peccatorum. Lisse ic ᵹelyfe leahtra ᵹehwylces. c1175Lamb. Hom. 145 Song wið-uten lisse. c1200Moral Ode 239 in Trin. Coll. Hom., Eiðer doð hem wo inoh, nabbeð hie none lisse. c1384Chaucer H. Fame i. 220 Ther sawe I Ioues venus kysse And graunted was of the tempest lysse. c1386― Frankl. T. 510 What for his labour and his hope of blisse His woful herte of penaunce hadde a lisse. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. ii. 200 Loue is lech of lyue and lysse of alle peyne. c1450Lonelich Grail li. 310 Of his peynes he myhte hauen non lys. 1802Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry IV. Gloss., Liss, remission or abatement, especially of any acute disease.
2. Tranquillity, peace, rest; joy, delight.
c1000Phœnix 672 (Gr.) Lifᵹan in lisse lucis et pacis. a1023Wulfstan Hom. (Napier) 265 Þa eadiᵹan ceaster⁓waran þær ᵹefeoþ and wynsumiað on lisse and on blisse. c1175Lamb. Hom. 15 Blisse and lisse ic sende uppon monnen þe me luuieð. c1205Lay. 3261 Þat he mihte..libben on lisse [later text ine blisse]. c1275Sayings of Bede 34 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. 505 Þer-inne is reste and lisse. a1310in Wright Lyric P. xviii. 57 Suete Ihesu,..Myn huerte love, min huerte lisse. 13..Guy Warw. (A.) 430 Bring me of þis wodenisse And bring me in to sum lisse. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. ix. 29 Lorde of lyf and of lyȝte of lysse and of peyne. 1393Ibid. C. vii. 315 Me ys leuere in this lif as a lorel beggen þan in lysse to lyue.
▪ II. liss
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