† mansedadj.
Obsolete.
Accursed, damned.
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wariedc975
un-i-seliOE
awariedc1000
curseda1400
manseda1400
accursedc1400
damned1563
sacred1594
a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) 154 (MED) For þat mansed man [sc. Judas], Mathie þey chossyn.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 774 (MED) He syttez þer in Sodomis..Among þo mansed men þat han þe much greved.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. ii. 39 (MED) And now worth þis Mede ymaried al to a mansed schrewe.
c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) 718 Þus þey seruen Satanas..Marchantes of malisons, mansed wreches!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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