Obs. [f. LATIN sb.]
1. trans. To render or turn into Latin.
1563. L. Humfrey (title), The Nobles or of Nobilitye…. Whereto for the readers commoditye,… is coupled the small treatyse of Philo a Jewe. By the same Author out of the Greeke Latined.
1584. R. Scot, Discov. Witchcr., VI. i. (1886), 89. Chasaph, being an Hebrue word, is Latined Veneficium.
1670. Eachard, Cont. Clergy, 31. He hales in all proverbs,… tales … ready latin’d to his hand out of Licosthenes.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. i. § 3. 5. That of the Greek Poet, Latin’d by Cicero.
b. To Latin it: to speak or write Latin.
1581. Mulcaster, Positions, i. (1887), 3. Though he thinke he haue the habite and can Latin it exceading well.
2. To interlard with Latin. rare–1.
1553. T. Wilson, Rhet., 86 b. The … foolishe phantasticall that smelles but of learnyng … will so latine their tongues, that the simple cannot but wonder at their talke.
Hence Latined ppl. a., versed in Latin; Latining vbl. sb.
1579. Fulke, Confut. Sanders, 626. He chargeth the bishop with false Latining and worse Englishing of this greeke.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., E ij. That the Latined Reader, may be the sooner acquainted with this toong … let him marke this table following, which I set downe in Latine.
