a. (and adv.). Obs. exc. dial. Also 4 latsom, -sum. [OE. lætsum, f. læt LATE a.1 + -SOME.] Backward; slow, sluggish; late.

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11[?].  O. E. Chron., an. 1089 (Laud MS). Wæs swiðe lætsum ʓear on corne.

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a. 1340.  Hampole, Pr. Consc., 793. He es swyft to spek … And latsom and slaw for to here.

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1382.  Wyclif, Exod. iv. 10. Y am of more latsum and of more slow tongue.

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c. 1450.  Mirour Saluacioun, 1142. And broght hym preciouse giftes and latsomest to fynd.

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1469.  Plumpton Corr. (Camden), 21. Whether is so latesum in this cuntrey, that men can neither well gett corne nor hay.

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1847.  Whistle-Binkie (Scot. Songs) (1890), II. 200. We’ve dandered baith latesome and early.

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1877–89.  in N. W. Linc. Gloss.

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  Hence † Latesomeness.

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a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter xxiii. 3. Wha is sett here for latsumnes.

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1357.  Lay Folks Catech., 528. Of this syn [slauthe] comes … latsumnesse or lite to draw opon lenthe Any gode dede that we sal do.

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