Obs. rare–1. [Anglicized form of prec.] = prec.
c. 1540. trans. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden, No. 29), 121. Ther was at York an auncyent and welthy xenodochye that ys to say, an hospytall … wher powre and nedye people wer enterteynyd.
