a-bedecian

Posted on by

a-bedecian, wk.v: to get by asking or begging. (ah-BEH-de-chi-ahn / a-ˈbɛ-dɛ-tʃɪ-an)

Medieval manuscript image of a beggar with a baby on his back, a bowl in one hand and a walking stick in the other; a lizard-human hybrid looks on beside a letter Q, the tail of which extends almost all the way to the beggar’s face.
Rutland Psalter; England, c. 1260; British Library, Add MS 62925, f. 47r. [bl.uk]

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.