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Webster 1913 Edition


Therf

Therf

,
Adj.
[AS.
[GREEK]eorf
; akin to OHG.
derb
, Icel.
[GREEK]jarfr
.]
Not fermented; unleavened; – said of bread, loaves, etc.
[Obs.]
Pask and the feast of
therf
loaves.
Wyclif.

Definition 2024


therf

therf

English

Adjective

therf (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, of bread, loaves, etc.) Not fermented, unleavened.
    • 1382–1395, John Wycliffe et al. (translators), Leviticus 2:4:
      Forsothe whanne thou offrist a sacrifice bakun in an ouene of whete flour, that is, loouys without sour dow, spreynd with oile, and therf breed sodun in watir, bawmed with oile; []

References

  • therf in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913