mesel

• mesell, mysel

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman (deprecated template usage) mesel, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French (deprecated template usage) mesel, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin (deprecated template usage) misellus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) miser. Compare (deprecated template usage) measles.

mesel (comparative more mesel, superlative most mesel)

1. (deprecated template usage) (obsolete) Having leprosy; leprous. [14th-17th c.]

mesel (plural mesels)

1. (deprecated template usage) (obsolete) A leper. [14th-16th c.]
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III:

     For she is […] As comune as a cartwey · to eche a knaue þat walketh / To monkes to mynstralles · to meseles in hegges.

2. (deprecated template usage) (obsolete) A wretched or revolting person. [14th-16th c.]
   • 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.

3. (deprecated template usage) (obsolete) Leprosy. [15th-16th c.]
   • 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 [...].

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) misellus.

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)

1. leper
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• English: measle, mesel