† legendern.
Obsolete.
A writer of legends. Cf. legendist n.
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1602 R. Parsons Warn-word ii. xv. sig. Ii3 He had this tale (as th[e] most of all the rest here alleaged) out of Io[hn] Fox as true a legender, as himself is an alleage[r]).
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. vi. 457/1 Which to be true, a Legender of his Miracles can best relate.
1689 Irish Hudibras 109 (margin) His Stature was 145 Cupids, if you will believe O Flannagan, O Sullevan, Mulrony Collonan, and the rest of their Authentick Legenders.
1723 J. Dart Westmonasterium II. p. xxvii Some Authors fix this Removal in 1383 in Richard II's Time; but be it when it would, none of the Legenders of that Time mention it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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