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albare

albare , to whiten. b to deck or dress in white (esp. for baptism). c to ‘blanch’ (cf. albus 6). nichil differt ‘†hominum [l. hominem] esse album et hominem ~ari’, vel ‘album esse aut fieri hominem’ Wycl. Ente 47.  b baptizati sunt ‥ alii ‥, quorum primi ~ati adhuc rapti sunt de hac vita Bede HE II 14; albanturque suis lustrata altaria peplis Frith. 452.  c 1227 preceptum est vicecomiti quod ingrediatur in manerium de Hedindon’ ‥ ad ~andum firmam LTR Mem 9 r. 8d.; 1275 reddendo domino regi pro dicta civitate [London’] cum comitatu predicto cccc li. plene, ubi solebant reddere nisi ccc li. et xv li. pro eis ~are Hund. I 403.

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