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lectuarium

1 lectuarium [cf. LL lectuarius = of a bed] , bed. c1220 ad ~ium autem semper [habebunt] post triennium unum chalonem et semper post biennium duo lintheamenta ‥ quando novos pannos lineos et nova calciamenta recipiet, reddet sursum vetera Cart. Osney III 56; in ~io ad opus domini vj d. Househ. Ac. 120.
2 lectuarium [cf. LL lectorium, ML lectarium] , cushion for a lectionary, lectern cloth. 1423 pro ij frontellis et j ~io de panno lineo Test. Ebor. III 76; 1518 quod iconomi provideant ‥ pro uno panno lineo pro ~io Vis. Linc. 21.
3 lectuarium [cf. LL electuarium] , electuary, medicine meant to dissolve in the mouth. senior quidam misit ei ~ium quod vino †desperatum [? l. distemperatum] et sic potatum ‥ extirparet ‥ passionem V. Chris. Marky. 48; proferre pixidem in qua ~ium attulerat insolite fragrancie ‥, dicentem ‥ “noli ~ium et laborem tuum perdere” Ib. 49; 1349 in factura unius spatour pro ~iis in garderoba prioris de pixidibus evellendis, v d. Ac. Durh. 549.

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