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Quotation dates: 1399-1420, 1515-1535
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(Simulacre,) Symulacre, n. Also: simulachre, simulacher, similakare, symylacre, symylaker, semulacre. [ME simulacre (Wyclif), e.m.E. symylacre (Caxton), simulachre (1531), symulacre (1613), F. simulacre (OF simulachre, c1170 in Larousse), L. simulacr- likeness, image, form, etc.] An image of a god as an object of worship. — a1400 Legends of the Saints vi 653.
Jhesu Criste … In quhais name I thé commawnd … That thu that semulacre brake a1400 Legends of the Saints xlvi 138.
I honoure a God … & honoure sal I neuire mare Thame that symulacris are, & dewilis that thaim duellis in a1400 Legends of the Saints x 270. c1420 Wynt. iv 1890.
Symulacrys [C. symylacris, W. simulachris] … made off gold and sylvyr fyne c1420 Wynt. v 2109.
Yhon similakare [C. symylaker, W. mawment] callyt Jupityr Can nowthire spek, luk, na here c1420 Wynt. v 49.
And off this Romule a fygowre Off hewys fyne and fayre payntoure, And othir symulacrys sere Off ydolys c1515 Asloan MS I 309/25.
Hercules … plantit … simulacheris and sterris of gold in the est c1520-c1535 Nisbet Rev. ix 20.
Thai wirschipit nocht deuilis and simulachris [W. simulacres, P. simylacris] of gold and of siluir
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