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ormesta

ormesta [OBreton uormest, W. gormes=disaster, misery] , calamity, disaster: a (in De ~a Britanniae, as title of Gildas De Excidio Britanniae; b (in De ~a Mundi, as title of Orosius’s Historia adversus Paganos); c (unspec.). a hoc Gildas commemorans in ~a Britanniae explanat dicens MS Pemb. Coll. Camb. 25 f. 168v.  b Orosius presbyter qui librum de ~a Mundi scripsit Ord. Vit. V 9 p. 339; alibi inveni in expositione libri de ~a Mundi quod stadium continet duas leucas Bacon Maj. I 230; Orosius Hispanus, Terraconensis presbyter, in libro de ~a Mundi Higd. I 2; c1443 Orosius de ~a Mundi Cant. Coll. Ox. 4.  c 10‥ ex Ormista, middangeardes metend WW.

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