cytesin

English

Etymology

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Noun

cytesin

1. Obsolete spelling of citizen.
   • 1534 April 12th, Thomas Heritage, in Warwickshire Grazier and London Skinner, 1532–1555: The Account Book of Peter Temple and Thomas Heritage, ed. Nathaniel Warren Alcock, British Academy (1981), →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13), page 143:

     Thys byll made the xij daye of Apryel in the xxv yere of the raine of King Henry the viij wytnessith that I, Thomas Herytage, cytesin of London, have recevyd of Wylliam Jaymes viij s. iiij d. for a quartors rent of a tenement in Lymost, dewe at the feist of the Annuncyacyon of Your Lady laste past, written the daye and yere abowe seyd.

Anagrams

• cystein, cystine, insecty