frontispicium

frontispicium [LL] 1 forehead. hoc ~ium, a fortope WW; hoc †frontisipium, a forhed WW. 2 (of person) countenance, outward appearance. sicut pubescentium aetas solet contingere posset ut mutato etiam ‥ ipso ~io non facile et cito cognosceretur ab eis quibus pridem notus existeret Bede Sam. (1 Sam. xvii 55) 624; heu ‥ quod ‥ tanta gratia ~ii mentem ab interna gratia vacuam gestat! Id. HE II 1 p. 80; quante prudentie Lanfrancus esset ex dignitate frontispitii et facetia responsi interiora conjectans W. Malm. GP I 24 (cf. Higd. VII 6 p. 332: unde, conspecta in Lanfranco responsi facetia et elegantia ~ii, de priore Beccensi effectus est abbas Cadomensis et postmodum presul Cantuariensis). 3 foremost part, beginning. in ipso narrationis ~io J. Furness Kentig. prol.. 4 front part (of building), façade. b (of altar) front. in ipso breviter tractatus hostio, / in ipsis foribus et frontispicio Walt. Wimb. Palpo 11; hoc ~ium, anterior pars domus WW; a fronte, ~ium ut ~ium ecclesiarum CathA; a gavelle of a howse, ~ium Ib.; 1520 in ~io novi edificii (Ac. Eton Coll.) Arch. Hist. Camb. I 418n; ipsum sane templum [Wells, Som] est admodum speciosum, sed ejus ~io ad occasium nihil speciosius Camd. Br. 198.  b 1512 ~ium summi altaris (Ac. Eton Coll.) Arch. Hist. Camb. I 416n.