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English
- mesyl, mesell, mesall, messel, messell, mesele, mesale, missel, mesell, misell, missell, missale, missaell, messelle, messille, mysal, mysel, mysale, mysell, myssaell, myssale, myssele, myssell, mesill, mysill, mezell, mezill, measell, meazle, meazel
Etymology
From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Doublet of measles.
Adjective
mesel
- (medicine, obsolete) Synonym of leprous: having leprosy or a similar skin disorder.
1357, John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville:Also in that flome Jordan Naaman of Syria bathed him, that was full rich, but he was mesell; and there anon he took his health.
- (figurative, obsolete) Synonym of wretched.
- (figurative, obsolete) Synonym of repulsive.
- (figurative, obsolete) Synonym of sinful.
- (zoology, obsolete) Synonym of diseased, particularly visibly displaying a diseased exterior.
Noun
mesel (plural mesels)
- (medicine, obsolete) Synonym of leper.
- (figurative, obsolete) A repulsive person.
- (medicine, obsolete) Synonym of leprosy: Hansen's disease and similar skin disorders.
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Middle English
Etymology
From Old French mesel, from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from Latin miser (“wretched”).
Noun
mesel (plural mesels)
- A leper.
c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section III:For she is […] As comune as a cartwey · to eche a knaue þat walketh / To monkes to mynstralles · to meseles in hegges.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- A wretched or revolting person.
1395, John Wycliffe, Bible, Isaiah LIII:Verily he suffride oure sikenesses, and he bar oure sorewis; and we arettiden him as a mysel and smytun of God and maad low.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Leprosy.
1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVII:So hit befelle many yerys agone there happened on her a malodye, and whan she had lyene a grete whyle she felle unto a mesell, and no leche cowde remedye her [...].- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Old French
Etymology
Inherited from Latin misellus (“wretched”).
Noun
mesel oblique singular, m (oblique plural meseaus or meseax or mesiaus or mesiax or mesels, nominative singular meseaus or meseax or mesiaus or mesiax or mesels, nominative plural mesel)
- leper
1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 172 of this essay:ou par gesir avec femme qui a dormi avec ung mesel- or by lying with a woman who has slept with a leper
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