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▪ I. † ˈpulver, n. Obs.
[ad. L. pulver-em (nom. pulvis) powder, dust.]
Powder, dust.
1502W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione iii. ix. 204 Good lorde, I speke to the of my presumpcion, natwithstandinge that I am but puluer & asshes. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) II. 423 In puluer small gart birne thame euerie one. 1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 28/1 Mixe these præ⁓nominated pulvers..addinge heerunto the Suger.
b. Pulver Wednesday = Ash-Wednesday.
c1454Agnes Paston in P. Lett. I. 270 Wretyn at Norwyche on Pulver Wedenesday.
▪ II. † ˈpulver, v. Obs.
[ad. L. pulver-āre, f. pulver-: see prec.]
trans. To reduce to powder, to pulverize. Hence † ˈpulvered ppl. a., † ˈpulvering vbl. n., sprinkling of ashes; pulvering day, Ash Wednesday.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. vii. (1626) 129 As pulvered flints [ed. 1632 lime of flints] infurnest under ground By sprinkled water fire conceive. 1754T. Gardner Hist. Dunwich 193 On pulvering Days, when Disposition of the said Lands was made, but not confirmed till St. Nicholas's Day. 1778[implied in pulverer]. |