vicineadj.
Now rare.
= vicinal adj. 3.
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neighbourc1485
vicinea1513
voisin1527
approaching1533
confine1579
neighbouring1595
fellow-borderinga1628
next door1739
vicinal1739
downstreet1828
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xi These men..subdued ye partyes and many other vycyne Countreys.
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) V. 2 A ii. Myles a this side Montgomeri..is a River cumming owt of the vicine Hilles.
1553 S. Cabot in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 262 God, vnder whose mercifull hand nauigants aboue all other creatures, naturally be most nigh, and vicine.
1605 L. Hutten Answere 28 With..due regarde alwaies had, to the easines and familiarity of the Ceremonie, that it be vicine, hard at hand, and obvious, not far fetcht.
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing iv. 35 The opening of other vicine passages might quickly obliterate any tracks of these.
1676 J. Cooke Mellificium Chirurg. (ed. 3) 715 In Ustion take heed of Vicin parts, and apply Cauteries through a Pipe.
1824 Guide to Aberystwyth 31 The visitor of Aberystwyth..parading the Terrace Castle Ruins or the vicine hills..gives the subject but an ordinary thought.
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