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The Confutation of Tyndale’s Answer choose

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[UK] T. More Confutation of Tyndale Answer VIII Pt II 741: Lo good reder here shall ye se that the thynge where about he hath bombed all this whyle, that is to proue that he knoweth not the scrypture by the chyrche.
at bomb, v.2
[UK] T. More Confutation of Tyndale Answer VIII Pt I 181: Frere Luther and Cate calate hys nonne lye luskynge together in lechery.
at callet, n.
[UK] T. More Confutation of Tyndale Answer VIII Pt II 14: The beggwely knaue had stolen y clowtes.
at clout, n.1
[UK] T. More Confutation of Tyndale Answer in Works 709/1: So foolyshe, that a verye nodypoll nydyote myght be ashamed to say it [OED].
at noddipol(e), n.
[UK] T. More Confutation of Tyndale Answer VIII Pt II 789: What can men call them by ryght but Ishmaelys, & Esaues, & reprobates, and very carnall fleshflyes?
at flesh-fly (n.) under flesh, n.
[UK] T. More Confutation of Tyndale Answer VIII Pt II 814: He fell vppon hys marybonys.
at marrowbones, n.
[UK] T. More Confutation of Tyndale Answer VIII Pt I 59: Motenmongers, pryapystes, idolatres, horemaysters, and sodomytes.
at mutton-monger, n.1
[UK] T. More Confutation of Tyndale Answer VIII Pt II 788: Nor fereth to mocke the sacrament the blessed body of god, & full lyke a stretche hempe, call it but cake brede or starche.
at stretch (the) hemp (v.) under stretch, v.
[UK] T. More Confutation of Tyndale Answer VIII Pt II 788: Tyndale calleth blessyng and crossyng but waggyng of folkes fyngers in the ayre, and fereth not (lyke one that wolde at length wagge hempe in the wynd) to mocke at all such myracles.
at wag hemp in the wind (v.) under wag, v.
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