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Sithware, Sythware, n. Also: sithtwar(e, sithar, sych(w)are, swithware, swythare. [Early ME siquar(e, sequar (only in Cursor M.), OE síð time and hwearf turning. The STS edition's transcription th may be a misreading for ch as in the Horstmann edition.] Only in Leg. S.: (Point of) time, moment; occasion. a1400 Leg. S. i 631.
He saw Cryst in that sythware pas in hewine a1400 Leg. S. ii 306.
Paule apperit to Nero Cesare, And sad sic wordis in that sithar a1400 Leg. S. ii 373.
It hapnyt in the sythar The patriarch for to cum thare a1400 Leg. S. ii 518.
Ȝet wald nocht God his prayer War in wane in that sythtware a1400 Leg. S. vi 222.
The apostile in that sychware … Pouer men relewit a1400 Leg. S. vi 382.
Thane al the sek men, that come thare, Parfyt heyle gat in that sychare a1400 Leg. S. xxi 304.
Til thare come in the sithtware Reueris sayland & ws fand a1400 Leg. S. xxiii 118.
Malchus … was thare, To by thare met, in the sychtware a1400 Leg. S. xxxiii 56.
A serpent fel … Wald cum fore to get his fude, & sla but bad quham-euir he fande In that swythare hym nere-hande a1400 Leg. S. xxxvi 575.
In that swithware Fra Jerusalem of case come thare Twa monkis a1400 Leg. S. iii 221.
Sitht-war a1400 Leg. S. xxix 322.
Sithware a1400 Leg. S. xxxviii 28, etc.
Swithware