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rosarium

rosarium, a place planted with roses, rose-garden

rosarium [CL], ~ius, ~ia 1 rose garden or rose bed (also fig.). b rose bush or tree, rose wreath; c (as form of token payment). rosa ‥ unde hoc ~ium ‥ i. locus ubi rose crescunt Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 495; rosetum, ~ium Ib. 506; sinus tuus fit jam rosarium / rosam gignens rosarum omnium J. Howd. Ph. 30.  b ut semper omne ~ium aliquo turbine sua purpura spoliatur Map NC IV 3 f. 46v; post festum Sancti Michaelis statim ~ie produxerunt rosas colorem perfectum odoresque habentes J. Reading f. 178; intrante autem illo ortum ubi sanguis Christi ceciderat vidit ~ium pulcherrimum portans rosas pulcherrimas Melton 252.  c 1295 [yearly rental of a rose] de ~io [at St. John Bapt’] Cart. S. Thom. Hosp. 148. 2 representation of roses, rose pattern (as decoration). 1349 una [ghita] de panno longo viridi ‥ operat’ cum uno ~io et infra dictum ~ium homines bruti et animalia bruta (KR Ac) Arch. XXXI 54; 1368 pulchriora vestimenta mea alba ‥ debraudata cum aureo ~eo et armis meis (Test. Episc.) Reg. Exon. 1550; 1388 tapeta ‥ cum rosis albis et rubiis intextis aliqua rubia bordura cum ~io currente pro ornatu chori (Invent. Westm.) Arch. LII 267; frontale ‥ cum armis principis in quodam ~io aureo embroudato G. S. Alb. III 380; pro altari ‥ aliud de panno lineo, cum ~io noviter stannato Amund. I app. 449. 3 base or counterfeit coin stamped with a figure of a rose, rosary (cf. rosa 3). 1297 pauca moneta ‥ est in Hibernia et fere tota ‥ que currit ibidem est de extraneis partibus, Flandr’ et aliunde, quam vocat quidam ballards, pollards, rosar’ vel aquilett[as] KR Ac 230/27 m. 17; s1300 rex Edwardus damnavit ‥ monetam surrepticiam ‥ quam ‥ ~ios nominabant (v. 1 pollardus); prohibita est moneta alienigenarum ‥ quam pollardos atque ~ios appellabant Rish. 195; monete nove, que vocabantur bastardi, pollardi, crocardi, et ~ii Meaux II 272. 4 set of beads, rosary. 1605 unam armillam ~ii electrini A. a bracelett of tenn amber beades and of one glasse beade HMC Rep. IX. I 293a. 5 (as title of book); b (med. or alch.). c (~ium theologicum) Wycliffite compendium of theology. 1417 lego ‥ unum librum nomine ~ium Reg. Cant. II 127.  b cavendum est ‥ ut dicitur in ~io ne venter sit nimis humidus Ripley 161.  c p1440 ~ium theologicum, secundo folio ‘-sionis culpe’ (Catal. Librorum) JRL Bull. XVI 471.

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