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† siecle Obs.
Forms: 5 sekil, sekyll, syecle, 6 seicle, siecle, secle.
[a. OF. secle, siecle (mod.F. siècle), ad. L. sæculum: see secular. The mod.F. form is occasionally used as a foreign word, esp. in the phrase fin de siècle (q.v.).]
1. The world (in the religious sense).
c1400Rule St. Benet 37 When any wymmen of þe sekil..cummis at aske þordir [= the order], man salle noght light⁓like gif it tam. Ibid. 39 When any riche man of þe sekil..offirs his doȝtir til god and til haly kirke. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 2500 Of his leuyng þai suld noȝt wondir, Na halde it haly all þof it ware Solitary fra þe sekyll fare.
2. An age or period.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 429/1 The whyche god creatour..be thanked..by all the syecle and syecles. 1549Compl. Scot. 3 The verteouse verkis dune be ȝour antecessours in oure dais ar euident til vs in this present seicle. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. xi. (Arb.) 125 Yet those trifles are come from many former siecles vnto our times.
3. A century.
c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 1079 The Romayns [reckoned] by lustres, whiche ben fyve yeres:..a secle is an hundred yere. |