† sulen.
Variant of soil n.1; cf. sulye n.
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 484/1 Sule erthe.., solum, tellus.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
† sulev.
Obsolete.
a. transitive. To soil, sully.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)]
sulec897
smitOE
soil1297
besoila1300
bysulpc1400
smudgec1430
dauba1450
smirch1495
smotter1513
suddle1513
smada1525
coinquinatea1529
puddle1535
moil1575
smut1587
sud1593
sully1601
coninquinate1609
smirch1615
smutcha1616
beslurry1627
besullya1645
smoot1683
besmircha1700
be-smutch1832
guggle1866
dirten1906
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care liv. 419 Sio sugu hi wille sylian on hire sole æfterðæmðe hio aðwægen bið.
a1000 Boeth. Metr. ix. 60 He on unscyldgum eorla blode his sweord selede swiðe gelome.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 290 Þewere se sec ofsunne. & swa isuled þer wið.
c1230 Hali Meid. 35 Þis is sunne,..& unwurðcheð þi bodi, Suleð þi sawle.
c1394 P. Pl. Crede 752 A soutere y~suled in grees.
b. intransitive. To be defiled.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > be polluted [verb (intransitive)]
sulea1250
begoc1275
file1607
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1240 Sum blynd mon..To þare diche his dwele voleweþ, & falleþ, & þar-onne sulieþ.
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