† ˈboc-leden Obs.
[OE. bóc book + léden, lǽden, Latin, hence, literary language: see leden.]
Book-Latin, the Latin language; afterwards book-language.
| a 1000 O.E. Chron. Introd., Her sind on þis iᵹlande fif ᵹeþeode, Englisc, and Brittisc and Wilsc, and Scyttisc, and Pyhtisc, and Boc Leden. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 117 Episcopus is gerkisc noma þet is on boc leden speculator. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 151 Iacob on boc leden is icleped under-plantere. |