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alfinus [Ar. al-fīl] , ‘alfin’, bishop (at chess). b (fig.). senex Nestoris personam gerens explorator est, qui vulgo alphicus [v. l. alficus] dicitur: regine geminat cursum, gressum obliquans tanquam insidiator Neckam NR II 184; ~i sunt cornuti exemplo episcopi, ‥ isti ~i oblique currunt et capiunt, tria puncta pertranseundo (J. Waleys Commun. I x 7) Speculum VI 464; 14‥ alphicus in triviis parat insidias inimicis; / saltans incedit; per obliquum sic quoque ledit (Modus Ludi Scacc.) Hist. Chess 519; alphinus, A. an awfyn WW.  b s1215 ecce rex sine regno ‥; ecce alficus nauci et angularis, rota quinta in plaustro M. Par. Maj. II 611.

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