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▪ I. † ˈmulier, n.1 Obs.—1
[AF.: see next.]
Wife.
a1375Cursor M. 7849 (Fairf.) Isaac his sone of mulier [Cotton o spus] was.
▪ II. mulier, a. and n.2 Law.|ˈmjuːlɪə(r)|
Forms: 4 moillere, moylere, 5 mulire, mulyer, 6 melior, 4– mulier; also as variant readings in Piers Pl. moilere, moilre, moilliere, -ller, mul(l)iere, mulere(r.
[repr. AF. mulieré (Britton), Law Lat. mulierātus, a derivative of AF. mulier, OF. moiller wife, ad. L. mulier woman.
With regard to the dropping of final é in Law terms of AF. origin, cf. assign n.2 In the variant muliery the é is rendered by y.]
A. adj. Of a child: born in wedlock, legitimate, as opposed to ‘bastard’; also in Eccl. Law, legitimatized by marriage.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. ii. 131 Wel ȝe witen..That fals is faithlees..And was a bastarde y-bore..And Mede is moylere a mayden of gode. 1430–1Rolls Parlt. IV. 375/2 To yentent yat she shuld be certified mulire be sum ordinarie. 1527Lanc. Wills (Chetham Soc.) I. 26 Isabelle and Dowce my mulier doughtours..Kateryn and Anne my bastard doughtours. 1642tr. Perkins' Prof. Bk. i. §49. 22 A bastard eigne who is mulier in the spirituall law.
quasi-adv.c1450Lovelich Grail xxxix. 543 For..that Mulyer not born he was [pour chou k'il ne sera pas engenres de mere moillier]. 1549Will of Awbrey (Somerset Ho.), My base sonne & not melior begotten.
B. n. A legitimate child; a child born in wedlock. mulier puisne (also anglicized mulier youngest): see bastard n. 1.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvi. 221 Man & his make & moillere her children. 1579Expos. Terms Law 148 And alwayes you shall finde this addicion to them (Basterd eldest, & mulier yongest) when they bee compared together. 1628Coke On Litt. 244 b, If a man hath Issue Bastard eigne and Mulier puisne. Ibid. 245 Where the Bastard enter after the death of the father, and the mulier oust him. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. 248. |