2 Antedatings/hymen

[Sam Clements]

To Joanne's good credit, M-W had 1543 in their latest.  But you beat that by
5 years.

SC
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> Here are two antedatings from Amazon full-text searches:
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> hymen2 (OED, 1., 1615)
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> 1538 Thomas Elyot _Dictionary_  Hymen ... a skinne in the secrete place of
> a maiden, which whanne she is defloured is broken.
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> Holmesian, n. (OED 1958)
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> 1930 Christopher Morley _Foreword_ in _Complete Sherlock Holmes_
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> Fred Shapiro
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