† bysawen.
Obsolete.
A current saying; a proverb.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > [noun]
saw9..
quideOE
yedOE
wordOE
wisdomc1175
bysawe?c1225
riotc1330
sentencec1380
textc1386
dict1432
diction1477
redec1480
say1486
adage1530
commonplace?1531
adagy1534
soothsay1549
maxima1564
apophthegm1570
speech1575
gnome1577
aphorisma1593
imprese1593
spoke1594
symbol1594
maxim1605
wording1606
impress1610
motto1615
dictum1616
impresa1622
dictate1625
effate1650
sentiment1780
great thought1821
brocarda1856
text-motto1880
sententia1917
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 71 Me seið. inbisaȝe From mulne & from cheping..me tidinge bringeð.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 461 Hit is a bysawe, ‘God have mercy of soules, quoth Oswalde, and fil to þe grounde’.
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