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▪ I. † ˈlegister1 Obs.
Forms: 4–5 legistre, -ystre, 5 legistery, 6 legistere, 5, 7 legister.
[a. OF. legistre variant (influenced by ministre, etc.) of legiste legist.]
= legist.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 5410 Lordynges cunseylours Wykkede legystrys [F. legistre] or fals acountours. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. viii. 62 Ȝe legistres and lawyers ȝe witen where I lyȝe. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. ii. (Skeat) I. 69 Amonge legystres there dare I not come. 14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 680/43 Hic legista, a legistery. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas iii. xviii. (1554) 90 a, Legistres folowyng their ententes Greatly reioyce in lucre. 1440J. Shirley Dethe K. James (1818) 26 He was..a grete legister of lawe positive, and canone, and civille bothe. 1555Abp. Parker Ps. lx. 170 Juda legistere. 1616Bullokar, Legisters, Lawyers. 1656in Blount Glossogr.
▪ II. † ˈlegister2 Obs.
[App. f. L. legĕre to read + -ster fem. agent-suffix.]
In a nunnery: A woman charged with the duty of reading aloud.
14..in Aungier Hist. Syon Monast. (1840) 374 Whan al be sette, anone the legister schal begyn to rede..And sche muste rede suche mater as the abbes or chauntres assignethe. |