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millenus [CL] 1 (pl, also in comp. numeral): a a thousand (each). b (w. ref. to any large number). a c954 caeteris omnibus sacerdotibus, quinquies ~os solidos CS 914; summa prius dicta, si sit sine fraude quotata / bis tres millenas fertur transcendere libras Reg. Whet. I 469.  b tetrica contemnens millenis damna periclis Aldh. VirgV 366; vir Dei tandem hostis pellacis ~is artibus ~as [gl.: þus] formas persentiens Felix Guthl. 34 p. 110; 796 mihi plus placet quam ~a talenta auri et argenti Alcuin Ep. 112; illa te genuit in dulci gremio, / infigens oscula millena filio Walt. Wimb. Carm. 272; rex ‥ licet resistentibus inimicis, per ~os frontorios ‥ transvadavit Meaux III 57. 2 (usu in comp. numeral) thousandth. b (~a proportio) one of a thousand parts, a thousandth. ~us, millesimus Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 364; anno milleno sexagesimo quoque seno / Anglorum mete crinem sensere comete (Vers) Map NC V 3 f. 60; c1198 annus millenus centenus septuagenus (Pol. Poems) EHR V 324; Christi millenus centenus jungitur annus Garl. Tri. Eccl. 49; anno milleno centeno septuageno / Anglorum primas corruit ense Thomas (Vers.) Eul. Hist. III 72; ab origine mundi quatuor ~o tricesimo secundo anno MGL I 497.  b hec ‥ non procedit in infinitum set stat quia ultra ~am proportionem non potest materia rarefieri Bacon VIII 155. 3 that consists of a thousand. migratus est annorum numerus ~us supra quoque viginti et duo Æthelw. I 1 p. 3. 4 thousandfold (usu w. ref. to any large amount or number). semita quin potius milleno tramite tendit / quae non errantes ad caeli culmina vexit Aldh. Aen. 59 (Penna) 7; quod ~a testimoniorum congerie [gl.: þusendfealdre ‥ gegaderunge] liquido probari potest Id. VirgP 8; ne duplicem poenam accipias, vel septupla vel ~a [v. l. ~am] Egb. Pen. prol. p. 416; inventum ut valeat, milleno carmine canta Alcuin Carm. 48. 3; languor ‥ ~o pondere invadendo hunc ‥ ad occubitum ‥ perduxit B. V. Dunst. 20; hilariter cum ~a usura recepturi impendite Anselm (Ep. 90) III 217. 5 (as sb m.) a thousand. a thowsande ‥ ~us, millecies CathA. 6 (as sb f.) set of a thousand (usu. of fish). c1283 debet cariare ij mellenas alleci sicci vel recentis Cust. Battle 4; 1325 forisfactura ~e [leschie] apprecietur ad ij s. viij d. ex antiquo [sic] consuetudine CBaron 142; dimidiam ~am anguillarum FormA 243. 7 (sb m. or n.) (group of) a thousand people. constituti sunt ‥ de unoquoque ~o duo electi Osb. Bawdsey cxliv (v. conjurare 2c).

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