a. Now dial. Forms: see LEW a.1; also 6 leau-, leuwarm. [f. LEW a. (used advb.) + WARM a.] Lukewarm.

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c. 1450.  M. E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich), 207. Hete hyt lew warm.

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1486.  Bk. St. Albans, C vij b. Let it stonde and wax lew warme.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, IV. xii. 87. Feche hiddir sone the well wattir lew warm.

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1588.  A. King, trans. Canisius’ Catech., 134. Thay … quhilk ar idil, sleuthfull, and quhome the scripture callis leuwarme.

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1878.  Stevenson, Inland Voy., 16. The … egg was little more than loo-warm.

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1879.  Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., Lew-warm, tepid, lukewarm.

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  So † Lew-warmed a., lukewarm.

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1588.  A. King, trans. Canisius’ Catech., Cert. Deuot. Pray. 33. Lat thy maist mightie gudenes fulfil that quhilk my maist leauwarmed vaikenes desyres to doe.

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