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josum [CL var. deorsum] , downward; b (sursum ~um) upwards or downwards (from a number), more or less. vidit equum ‥ tecta casae ‥ ore jusumque trahentem Bede CuthbP 5; inde cadens josumque cavavit leniter asprum / duca super terram Bonif. Carm. 6. 4 p. 22; iter asperum arripuit; nunc susum nunc ~um progrediens Byrht. V. Ecgwini 364; versa vertice josum scandens perlege susum Osw. Vers. 21; monstrum illud [vermis] nunc sursum, nunc jusum, nunc hac, nunc illac se retorquens morsus infigere querit J. Worc. 39; lupus posuit se in situlam, que erat supra et descendit †insum [l. jusum]; vulpecula in alia †sicula [l. situla] ascendit susum O. Cheriton Fab. 19; 1373 Johannes Sawere saltat in predicta navicula, ita quod predicta navicula jusum vertit et sic predictus Sawer se ipsum demersit RCoron 255/8 m. 1; susum jusumque prope deambulabat Mir. Hen. VI II 37 p. 100.  b fecit ‥ januas numero ccclxv sursum jusum in exteriora atria Diceto Chr. I 93.

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