| 释义 |
▪ I. † convers, ? n.
In the following passage ‘in conuers’ is perh. a scribal error for ‘in conuex’, the Ital. original having i conuessi ‘the convexes’; if Chaucer wrote ‘in conuers’, he must have read the It. as i conuersi.
c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 1810 His gost..is went Vp to [þe] holughnesse of þe seuenþe spere, In conuers letynge eueryche element. [Boccaccio Tes. xi. i, L'anima..volando Ver la concauità del cielo ottava Degli elementi i conuessi lasciando.]
▪ II. convers
var. of converse a.1 and n.2 Obs. |
