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sápe

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
sápe, an; f.
Soap, salve (? v. sáp)
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  • Sápe sapo (sopo, MS.), Wrt. Voc. i. 86, 12:

    lumentum,

    ii.
      54, 4.
  • Hé biþ ðonne áþwogen fram his synnum þurh ða untrumnysse, swá swá horig hrægl þurh sápan,

      Homl. Th. i. 472, 6.
Etymology
[Monie of þas wimmen smurieð heom mid blanchet, þet is þes deofles sápe (unguent?), O. E. Homl. i. 53, 24. Þe wreche peoddare more noise he makeð to ȝeien his sope, þen a riche mercer al his deorewurðe ware, A. R. 66, 18. O. H. Ger. seifa sabona, smigma; also resina.]
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v. ár-, pill-sápe.
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