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aovrir (1113-19)
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aovrir (1113-19)

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adheuvrer;  aduevrer,  aduevrir;  ahuevrir;  aoivrir,  aoverir,  aowrir;  auverer,  auvrir;  awevrir  
  FEW:  aperire 25,4b Gdf:  aovrir 1,312a GdfC: ∅ TL: aovrir 1,418 DEAF:  ovrir (aovrir)  DMF:  aouvrir  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

1to open: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Aoverte est la terre, e degluti D.  Oxf Ps ANTS 107.105.17
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Tu awevres (Latin: Aperis) tes mains  Camb Ps 257.CXLIV.17
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  li pruzdum refist ses ureisuns que nostre Sires auverist lur cilz qu’il veissent […]  Liv Reis1 185
( 1150-70; MS: s.xiii1 )  Estuet li sa quisse aovrir  Trist thomas2 1152
( s.xiiim; MS: s..xiiiex )  Aoivre mei la porte de vie  Legendary 76.511
♦fig.to open up, give access to: 
( MS: 1155-60 )  Tu […] auvris (Latin: aperuisti) as creanz les reignes des ciels  Camb Ps 282.16
2fig.to reveal, show: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  je aoverrai (Latin: aperiam) en harpe ma devinaille  Camb Ps 84.XLVIII.4
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Folx mostret tost sun maltalent […] S’ire hastivement aduevre, M[a]is li cointes la ceile e covre  Salemon 7527
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Kar Deu lor aowri un’ aventure grant  Horn 104
♦to show, demonstrate: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  raison rent e ahuevre De predicatiun et d’uevre  Salemon 585

v.intrans.

to open up: 
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Averil, ço est auvrir, Kar dunc veit l'e[n] issir De cez arbres les flurs  Comput ANTS 723
( s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  (God) qui la mer fist aovrir Por sun pueple d’Egipte eissir  Conception wace 1029
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  Li venz […] funt […] grant baees aoverir  Pet Phil 1512

v.refl.

to open up: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Ices peres (=pearls) unt pousté Qu’eles se aoverent de lur gré  Best ants 3030
( 1141; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Terre s’auvera, Enfer demust[e]ra  Sibile 1189

p.pr. as a.

opening wide: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) Sepulchre auvranz est le guitrun de els  Oxf Ps ANTS 48.13.5

p.p. as a.

wide open: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  Del fum li munz est descuverz, Enfern veient tut auverz (Latin: Infernusque illis manifestatus est)  S Brend mup 1206

See also:

ovrir1 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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