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meazel

meazel is the obsolete form of mesel.

meazel is the obsolete form of measle.

Meaning of mesel

Adjective

mesel

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of leprous: having leprosy or a similar skin disorder.
    • Also in that flome Jordan Naaman of Syria bathed him, that was full rich, but he was mesell; and there anon he took his health.1357, John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
    Synonyms:
    leprous
  2. (figuratively, obsolete) Synonym of wretched.
    Synonyms:
    wretched
  3. (figuratively, obsolete) Synonym of repulsive.
    Synonyms:
    repulsive
  4. (figuratively, obsolete) Synonym of sinful.
    Synonyms:
    sinful
  5. (obsolete) Synonym of diseased, particularly visibly displaying a diseased exterior.
    Synonyms:
    diseased, particularly visibly displaying a diseased exterior

See all 8 meanings of mesel

Meaning of measle

Noun

measle (plural measles)

  1. A red spot of the kind that appears on the skin of someone suffering from measles.
  2. A tapeworm larva.

Forms of meazel

pluralmeazels

Origin of meazel

From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Doublet of measles.

Questions about meazel

What is meazel the obsolete form of?
Meazel is the obsolete form of mesel.

Words near meazel in the dictionary

  1. meawl
  2. meawled
  3. meawling
  4. meawls
  5. meaws
  6. meazel
  7. meazels
  8. meazling
  9. MEB
  10. MEB disease
  11. mebamoxine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meazel (page history and authors); mesel (page history and authors); measle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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