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† losenger Obs. Forms: 4 loseniour (= -jour), -gour, losaniour (= -jour), lozengiour, -eour, 4–5 losengeour, -gere, -ynger(e, 4–6 losanger, (5 -ere, losengeoure, -joure, lousenger, lesingour, Sc. lossingere, 6 -geir, loosenger, losinger), 4–7 losenger. [a. OF. losengeour, -ere, agent-n. f. losenger losenge v.] 1. A false flatterer, a lying rascal, a deceiver.
13..Seuyn Sag. (W.) 674 Thou schalt ben an-honged, thou losenjour. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 3504 What sey men of þese loseniours, þat haue here wurdys feyre as flours? c1385Chaucer L.G.W. Prol. 328 In youre court is manye a losenger. a1400–50Alexander 1923 Laches me þis losengere & ledis me him hedire. 1484Caxton Ryall Bk. C iij, But this synne [sc. of boasting] doubleth in them that folowe and flatre these vauntours and losengers. 1508Dunbar Tua mariit wemen 258 Gif yov nought list be forleit with losingeris vntrew. 1577–87Holinshed Chron., Hist. Scot. 63/1 There to end their liues with shame, as a number of such other loosengers had often doone before them. 1616Bullokar, Losenger, a flatterer, a Lyar. ¶2. Sc. A sluggard. [? Confused with losel.]
1513Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 178 Thus lysnit I, as lossingeir, sic lewidnes to luik. Ibid. xii. Prol. 281, I knew it was past four howris of day, And thocht I wald no langar ly in May Les Phebus suld me losanger attaynt. |