appair

Related to appair: appear

appair

(əˈpɛə)
vb
to make or become worse
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1490-1546) notes disparagingly in the preface to his Latin-English dictionary that 'Fryre Calepine (but where he is augmented by other) nothyng amended, but rather appaired that which Perotus had studiously gathered'.
What then deserveth he, that teacheth such a receipt, whereby health both of body and mynde is preserved, and whereby if health be appaired, it may be restored?
the believer says "our" and not "my" father, why he says "hevenes," rather than "heven," and why he says "halwed be thy name" when the name of God cannot be "appaired nother amended." (54) The reference to "heavens" is used as a springboard for a discussion of the definition of the church (always an important subject for Lollards): "We schulle understonde that hevenes in this place beth understonde Cristen mennes soules, the whiche, as holy wryt seyth, beth the seeles of God.
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