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acoupler (1160-74)
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acoupler (1160-74)

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acupler;  accoupler,  accouplir  (adcouplir  YBB 12 Rich II 154; ) encoupler  
  FEW:  copula 2/ii,1158a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  acoupler 8,28b TL: acopler 3,241 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  accoupler  TLF:  accoupler  OED:  accouple v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

1to couple, conjoin: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Les chartres en sunt plainnes, tant en y unt geté, En aniaux deuls et deuls en unt maint acouplé  Rom de Rou wace i 123.3304
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Par la ure e le tens acupler As esteilles pur acorder (=for purposes of horoscope)  S Clem ANTS 10775
♦also_fig.to join, couple: 
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  s’il seient acoplez a fei, e esperance, e cherité  Secr abernun 2323
( 1308-09 )  en leal matrimoigne acouplé  YBB Ed II i 157
( 1388 )  accouply en loial matrimonie par le ley de seint esglise  YBB 12 Rich II 154
♦to join in sexual intercourse: 
( 1260-70; MS: s.xiv1 )  Al ostel fu le crestien bacheler, Qe od sa (=his master’s) femme sovent jua, […] Tant qe le deable les acopla  Man pechez 9047
2livestockto yoke: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  les vaches […] a porter l’arche sunt acuplé  Liv Reis1 14

sbst. inf.

fig.clash, fight: 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  Mais en lur acupler (=J.C. & Devil) ert deable vencu par mames [sic] les armes parunt il quida veintre  Joshua Sermons ii 29

See also:

coupler 
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