Obs. Also 4 loose, 5 lowse. [f. LOSE sb.1, or perh. aphetic f. ALOSE v.] trans. To praise. Also absol.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XI. 411. Þow with rude speche Lakkedest, and losedest þinge þat longed nouȝt to be done.
1388. Wyclif, 1 Esdras iv. 12. What maner wise passith not the kyng bifore oothere, that thus is loosid?
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 1960 (Dublin MS.). Of all Lordes Lord lowsed þorow þe werld.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, II. cii. (1869), 112. I am þilke þat of olde am cleped and losed [v.r. alosed] þe eldeste.
Hence † Losed ppl. a., praised, renowned. Also used as sb., one praised.
c. 1305. Edmund Conf., 245, in E. E. P. (1862), 77. So noble a losed þer nas non in al þe vniuersite.
1422. trans. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv., 160. The good kynge Dauy … the loset of force and of vertue.
c. 1440. Capgrave, Life St. Kath., I. 7. A losyd lorde was he.
